Aaron Panofsky

Aaron Leon Panofsky is an American sociologist of science and Associate Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on the social implications and history of genetics.[1]

Aaron Panofsky
NationalityAmerican
EducationAmherst College (B.A., 1996)
New York University (M.A., 2002; Ph.D., 2006)
Known forSociology of scientific knowledge
Awards2015 President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association (for Misbehaving Science)
Scientific career
FieldsSociology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ThesisFielding controversy: The genesis and structure of behavior genetics (2006)
Doctoral advisorsTroy Duster
Craig Calhoun

Work

Panofsky's 2014 book, Misbehaving Science, explores the role of controversy in the development of the scientific field of behavior genetics.[2] The book won the 2015 President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association.[3]

Panofsky also attracted media attention for a study he presented at an American Sociological Association meeting in 2017. The study analyzed 3,070 posts on the white nationalist Internet forum Stormfront in which posters described the results of their genetic ancestry tests. The study identified three distinct ways in which the white supremacists whose tests identified non-European ancestry dismissed and rationalized their results.[4][5] One of these ways was to accuse the genetic testing companies of being run by Jews, who some white supremacists accused of engaging in a conspiracy to fraudulently manipulate the white supremacists' test results.[6]

References
  1. "Aaron Panofsky". The UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  2. "Aaron Panofsky Explores Controversies in "Misbehaving Science"". UCLA Luskin. 2015-04-29. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  3. "President's Book Award". Social Science History Association. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  4. "How white supremacists respond when their DNA says they're not 'white'". PBS NewsHour. 2017-08-20. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  5. Zhang, Sarah (2017-08-17). "When White Nationalists Get DNA Tests That Reveal African Ancestry". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  6. Suerth, Jessica (2017-08-18). "White nationalists use genetic tests for 'racial purity,' study finds". CNN. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
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