Terence Keel

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Harvard University

Terence Keel is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies and the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was previously a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Keel received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Harvard University. His research focuses on the study of race within the history of science and medicine, the relationship between religion and science, and African American intellectual history. Dr. Keel’s work also explores contemporary attitudes toward human evolutionary biology, and the ethical implications of late-twentieth-century genetics and public health research. Dr. Keel is currently working on a book titled, The Religious Pursuit of Race: Christianity, Modern Science, and the Perception of Human Difference. This work examines the enduring commitment of western thought to the study of race and traces the influence of religious ideas about nature and human descent on scientific and medical perceptions of human variation in Europe and the United States. Dr. Keel’s work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.