TERENCE KEEL
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR, & DIRECTOR OF THE BIOCRITICAL STUDIES LAB
Terence Keel, The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence (Beacon Press, 2025)
“Blumenbach’s Racial Science in the Light of Christian Supersessionism” in, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Race and Natural History, 1750-1850 ed. Nicolaas Rupke and Gerhard Lauer (NY: Routledge, 2018), 123-141
“Race on both Sides of the Razor”, Kalfou “Symposium Issue on Race and Science”, Spring 2018, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 7-17
Malik, S. and Keel, T. Documenting Fatalities in ICE Custody: January -S September 2025. UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, October 2025.
Walters, J.., Sosa, G., & Keel, T., Deaths in Dauphin County Prison (Harrisburg, Penn.), 2008-2022. UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics, June 2024.
“Human-Neanderthal Hybrids and the Frontier of Critical Race Studies” in, Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies ed. Paul Spickard and Rudy Guevarra (NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017), 201-218
“Concluding Remarks: Social Justice Requires BioCritical Inquiry” Kalfou “Symposium Issue on Race and Science”, Spring 2018, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 68-75
Keel, T. and Sosa, G. Analysis of Jail Deaths Crisis and Response to Los Angeles County Health Services Report. UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, October 2025.
Terence Keel and Jonah Walters, "Oleoresin Capsicum: The Racial-Political History of a Ubiquitous Chemical Munition" Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, December 2023, Vol. 114, No. 4
Johnson, C., Keel, T., Li, A., Robinson-Sweet, A., Rossi, E., Sosa, G., & Walters, J., In-Custody Deaths in Ten Maryland Detention Centers, 2008-2019. UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics, August 2023.
Nicholas Shapiro and Terence Keel “Naturalizing Unnatural Death in Los Angeles County Jails" Medical Anthropology Quarterly December 2023, Vol. 37, No. 4
“The Religious Preconditions for the Race Concept in Modern Science”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 2019): 225-229
“Charles V. Roman, Racial Medicine, and the Specter of Polygenism in Progressive Era Public Health Research,” Social History of Medicine, May 2015, 28 (4): 742-766
Li, A., Sosa, G., & Keel, T., Report: Los Angeles County Jail Deaths 2009. UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics, February 2023.
Terence Keel, Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (Stanford: Stanford University Press, January 2018)
“Response to my Critics: The Life of Christian Racial Forms in Modern Science”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 2019): 261-279
