Colliding Categories: Haplotypes, Race & Ethnicity
Sponsor: National Human Genome Research Institute
Project Dates: 7/01/03 - 7/01/04
Principal Investigator: Dr. Jonathan D. Kahn
Co-Investigators: Prof. Jeffrey Kahn, Prof. Susan Wolf
Award Amount: $564,300
This project explored the impending collision between biological and
regulatory classifications of population subgroups in American society. We
focused on the interaction between biological categories emerging from
the effort to create a haplotype map of the human genome and preexisting
categories specifying race and ethnicity embodied in the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget's Directive 15, which governs collection of data by
all federal agencies and in federally funded research.
This project involved an eminent national group of scholars
including: Profs. Troy Duster PhD, (New York University and University of
California, Berkeley); Phyllis Griffin Epps, JD (University of Houston);
Evelynn Hammonds, PhD (Harvard University); Jonathan Marks, PhD (University
of North Carolina, Charlotte); Michael Omi, PhD (University of California,
Berkeley); Kim Fortun, PhD (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute); Dorothy
Roberts, JD (Northwestern University); and Charmaine Royal, PhD (Howard
University); and University of Minnesota Profs. Donna Arnett, PhD; Rose
Brewer, PhD; Colin Campbell, PhD; Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH; Vivek Kapur, PhD;
Harry Orr, PhD; William Toscano, PhD; and Susan Wolf, JD.
