Donna M. Goldstein
is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Professor Goldstein has written extensively on the intersection of race, gender, poverty and violence in Brazil and is the author of Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. She was Director of the Latin American Studies Center at CU-Boulder (LASC) from 2014-2017, and recently served as Director of the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) from 2012 - 2016.
Research Interests
Currently, Professor Goldstein is working on two book projects. The first is tentatively called Brazil's Nuclear Ambitions: From Cold War Science to Contemporary Populations at Risk and seeks to understand the history of Cold War Science and the scientific debates surrounding ionizing radiation, as well as Brazil's nuclear energy program.
The second project is called Pharmaceutical Politics in Neoliberal Latin America: The Traffic of Drugs, Lives, and Profits, an ethnographic investigation of the ways in which pharmaceutical products, have come to occupy an imperial position in the humanistic, social, economic, and biological lives of citizens in Argentina and Mexico. Specifically, Pharmaceutical Politics brings ethnography and social theory together in order to ask how neoliberal social policy and the science of clinical trials has impacted the accessibility and safety of pharmaceutical products. The book builds on and deepens what might be termed a recent ‘pharmaceutical turn’ in anthropology.
The second project is called Pharmaceutical Politics in Neoliberal Latin America: The Traffic of Drugs, Lives, and Profits, an ethnographic investigation of the ways in which pharmaceutical products, have come to occupy an imperial position in the humanistic, social, economic, and biological lives of citizens in Argentina and Mexico. Specifically, Pharmaceutical Politics brings ethnography and social theory together in order to ask how neoliberal social policy and the science of clinical trials has impacted the accessibility and safety of pharmaceutical products. The book builds on and deepens what might be termed a recent ‘pharmaceutical turn’ in anthropology.
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