NEWS: Race Decoded wins the 2014 American Sociological Association Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
​and is Runner-Up for the 2016  American Sociological Association Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award!

Dr. Catherine Bliss is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her research explores the sociology of race, gender and sexuality in science, medicine, and society. Bliss's award winning book Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice  (Stanford University Press 2012) examines how genomics became today’s new science of race. Her second book Social by Nature: The Promise and Peril of Sociogenomics (Stanford University Press 2018) examines postgenomic convergences in social and genetic science led by new sociogenomic sciences, including their implications for equality, identity, and belonging. Her latest book, Go Edit Yourself: Programming People With DNA Science, introduces social debates around human gene editing to academic and nonacademic audiences.
​See reviews of Race Decoded and Social by Nature in Science and Nature

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