Melissa Creary
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Summary
Melissa Creary is interested in the simultaneous constructions of race and science via the development of technology and policy. Her global health research provides critical analyses of the embodiment of policy via genetic and racial identities and a way of theorizing how embodied outcomes of accumulated injustice and exclusion inhibit the receipt of justice even via intentional, well-meaning, well-researched programs, policies, and technologies. Most recently, she is interested in the ways the novel biotechnological advancement of gene editing, recently approved as a therapeutic for SCD in the United States, has begun to be discussed and understood in the context of other Portuguese-speaking countries linked to each other by colonization (Brazil, Portugal, and Angola).