Postdoctoral Fellowship in Studies in Science, Technology Society

林迪博士与宾夕法尼亚大学人类基因组中心的罗伯特·努斯鲍姆博士合作，正在制定一项研究计划，以了解现代优生学。该计划包括1950年至今的现代优生学研究，其中包括探索人类基因组计划对未来“定向人类进化”的影响。她试图确定对人类进化的担忧如何影响了遗传学的发展。到博士后学年结束时，对该问题的学术研究应该取得重大进展。作为努斯鲍姆博士培训的一部分，林迪博士正在与研究遗传学家一起进行紧张的实验室学徒工作。她还与中心工作人员一起准备实地考察，并将参加中心的所有行政和科学会议。林迪博士希望通过这项奖学金所进行的培训和研究，重塑历史学家、哲学家和社会科学家对美国优生学的看法。最近关于德国优生学的一些具有挑衅性的研究表明，目前美国在这一主题上的学术研究存在一些不足。这项工作有望为更富有成效的分析开辟领域。

Working with Dr. Robert Nussbaum of the Dept. of Human Genomes Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lindee is developing a research plan to understand modern eugenics. This plan includes a study of modern eugenics, 1950 to the present, which includes exploring the implications of the human genome project for future "directed human evolution." She is trying to determine how concerns about human evolution have shaped the development of genetics. By the end of the postdoctoral year, significant progress should have been made on a scholarly study of the problem. As part of the training under Dr. Nussbaum, Dr. Lindee is working with research geneticists in an intense laboratory apprenticeship. She is also working with the Center staff in preparing for site visits, and will attend all administrative and scientific meetings of the Center. With the training and the research which she is undertaking under this fellowship, Dr. Lindee hopes to reshape the way historians, philosophers, and social scientists think about eugenics in America. Provocative recent work on German eugenics suggests some inadequacies of current American scholarship on this topic. This work hopefully will open the field to more productive analysis.