Alondra Nelson sits down with FRI for the initial installment of the "What is Feminist Research?" Interview Series during a visit to UC Davis on November 1, 2017.  Nelson acknowledges how feminist research has benefited from preceding generations of feminist studies, and speaks to the necessity of an ethical commitment to social mission and community partnership in the practice today.        

Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology at Columbia University. A scholar of science, technology, and social inequality, she is the author most recently of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome.  For more on Professor Nelson, please visit http://www.alondranelson.com/.

Video production: Sarah McCullough
Interviewer: Sarah McCullough
Publication Date: 11/22/17