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Troy Duster
Plenary Speaker at 2005 Annual Meeting
Tuesday, August 9th - 5:30 to 6:30 PM

"The Stratification of Culture as a Barrier to Democratic Pluralism: Reaching Over and Across, not Down"

Troy DusterTroy Duster is Professor of Sociology at New York University and he also holds an appointment as Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1996-98, he served as member and then chair of the joint NIH/DOE advisory committee on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (The ELSI Working Group). He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Social Science Research Council, and last year served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He is currently the President of the American Sociological Association. He is the former Director of the American Cultures Center and the Institute for the Study of Social Change, both at the University of California, Berkeley.

His relevant books and monographs include Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge (co-edited with Karen Garrett), Backdoor to Eugenics, (2nd ed, 2003) and most recently Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Colorblind Society (co-author Brown, et al., 2003). His most recent publications on this topic are "The Sociology of Science and the Revolution in Molecular Biology," in J. Blau, ed., Blackwell Companion to Sociology, 2001, "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; "Race Identity," in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.), Pergamon, Oxford. 2001: 12703-06; "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 Morphing Properties of Whiteness," in B. Rasmussen, E. Klinenberg, I. Nexica and M. Wray, eds., The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, and "The Social Consequences of Genetic Disclosure," in Ronald Carson and Mark Rothstein, eds., Culture and Biology, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.