James Doucet-Battle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Doucet-Battle is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology, the Genomics Institute, and the Global and Community Health Program at UCSC. A former Ford Foundation Fellow, his research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of science, technology and society studies, diaspora studies, development studies and anthropological approaches to health and medicine. He applies these interests to study the political economy of genomic discourses about race, risk, and health disparities. Doucet-Battle is the author of Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (Minnesota, 2021).