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Troy Duster is Chancellor’s Professor at the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, University of California, Berkeley – and he is Emeritus Silver Professor of Sociology, New York University. He is the past-president of the American Sociological Association (2004-05), and served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (2003-04). From 1996- 98, he served as member and then chair of the joint National Institutes of Health/ Department of Energy advisory committee on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project. He is a member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Innocence Project. Research interests include the social and political implications of developments in human molecular genetics.
His relevant books and monographs include Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge (co-edited with Karen Garrett) and Backdoor to Eugenics, (2nd ed, 2003). Recent publications include, “Ancestry Testing and DNA: Uses, Limits—and Caveat Emptor,” in S. Krimsky and K. Sloan, eds., Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture, New York: Columbia U. Press, 2010; “The Visions and Divisions of American Sociology,” with Craig Calhoun and Jonathan Van Antwerpen, The ISA Handbook on Diverse Sociological Traditions (2009); and the American Sociological Association presidential address: “Comparative Perspectives and Competing Explanations: Taking on the Newly Configured Reductionist Challenge to Sociology,” American Sociological Review, 2006, 71 (February:1-15).
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