Troy Duster

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Troy Duster is a sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and professor of sociology and director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at New York University.

He is the grandson of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett.^[1]

Contents 1 Education 2 Selected publications 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Education

• B.A. 1957, Northwestern University
• M.A. 1959, University of California Los Angeles
• Ph.D. 1962, Northwestern University

[edit] Selected publications

• "Lessons from History: Why Race and Ethnicity Have Played A Major Role in Biomedical Research," in Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Fall 2006
• "Backdoor to Eugenics" Routledge, 1990

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Troy Duster at NYU Department of Sociology
• Troy Duster at American Sociological Association