Troy Duster

Troy Duster

Chancellor's Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Deviance, law, science, ethnicity
Representative Publications

"Feedback Loops in the Politics of Knowledge Production," in Nico Stehr, ed., The Governance of Knowledge, New Brunswick and London, 2004, 139-160

"Selective Arrests, An Ever-Expanding DNA Forensic Database, and the Specter of an Early Twenty-First Century Equivalent of Phrenology" in David Lazer, ed., DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice, 2004, 315-334

"The Hidden Eugenic Potential of Germ-Line Interventions," in Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel, Designing our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, 156-178

"The International HapMap Project," in Richard A. Gibbs, et al., Nature, 426, 18-25 December 2003, 789-796

"Buried Alive: The Concept of Race in Science," in Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, and M. Susan Lindee, eds., Genetic Nature / Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Two-Culture Divide, Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003, 258-277

"Social Side Effects of the New Human Molecular Genetic Diagnostics," in Michael Yudell and Robert DeSalle, eds., The Genomic Revolution: Unveiling the Unity of Life, Washington, DC: John Henry Press, 2002

"The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology," in J. R. Blau, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Sociology, London and New York: Blackwell, 2001

"The Social Consequences of Genetic Disclosure," in Ronald Carson and Mark Rothstein, (eds.), Culture and Biology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

"Persistence and continuity in Human Genetics and social Stratifications," in Ted Peters, ed., Genetics: Issues of Social Justice, Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1998, 218-238.

"Genetic Information and the Workplace: Legislative Approaches and Policy Challenges," with K. Rothenberg, et al. Science, 275, 1755-1757, 21 March 1997.

"The Stratification of Cultures as the Barrier to Democratic Pluralism," in Robert Orrill, ed., Education and Democracy: Re-imagining Liberal Learning in America, New York: The College Board, 1997, 263-286.

"'Pattern, Purpose and Race in the Drug War: The Crisis of Credibility in Criminal Justice," in Craig Reinarman and Harry G. Levine, Crack in America: Demon Drugs and social Justice, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997, 260-287.

"The Prism of Heritability and the Sociology of Knowledge," in Laura Nader, ed., Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge, New York: Routledge, 1996, 119-130.