Acknowledgments

The research for this book has many origin points and is a result of long conversations between the authors, across continents and time. We first began our discussions many years ago now at King’s College London, made possible through a Wellcome Trust Small Grant, “Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab.” While we continued our connections in research over the ensuing years, this book is a product, at least in part, due to us coming together under the auspices of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at the University of Sydney, where we have been leading a research theme on “Race, Ethnicity, and the Biohumanities.” We thank the Centre for bringing us together in this way and for providing the initial provocation to explore the ideas that became this book. Jason Weideman welcomed the project at the University of Minnesota Press, and we would like to thank him for his support and conviction in regard to the ideas we explore. The insights of an anonymous reviewer helped crystallize our thinking, and we appreciate their intellectual generosity.

Anthony extends special thanks to his partners at Black Box Labs at Wesleyan University for their ongoing research on metabolism cages and to Suzanne Gottschang and Kathleen Pierce for providing the protective institutional support and rich intellectual community he needed to develop this book while appointed as the William Allan Neilson Chair of Research at Smith College.

Anne, in addition to being deeply informed by extended conversations with the coauthors of this volume and feedback on a presentation at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, owes a great debt to Nassim Parvin, who was her original interlocutor on the topic of the hermetic seal.

Amade thanks her coauthors for an exceptional process of thinking and writing together that led to this book, and in particular Nadine Ehlers for guiding us gently and keeping us on track. Amade also thanks the RaceFaceID team for constant conversations on race and science, and the European Research Council for generously funding her research into race and forensics through a Consolidator Grant (FP7-617451-RaceFaceID); see also https://race-face-id.eu.

Nadine would like to thank her coauthors. The conversations that led to this book, in all their many forms over the years, have been sustaining and always challenging in the best possible ways.