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I am a sociologist at Yale University and the author of the award-winning book Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards. I study the relationship between medicine, technology, and society, with a focus on race and racism. My work has appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social Science & Medicine, and Poetics and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. My research and teaching engage with the sociology of health and illness, science and technology studies, the sociology of race, cultural sociology, legal studies, and gender studies. Insights from my research have been featured in media outlets from around the world, including Mother Jones, Washington Post, Folha de São Paulo, Deutsche Welle, and Göteborgs-Posten.

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