TERENCE KEEL

Terence Keel, The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence (Beacon Press, 2025)​

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Malik, S. and Keel, T. Documenting Fatalities in ICE Custody: January -S September 2025. UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, October 2025.​

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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.

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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.

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Li, A., Sosa, G., & Keel, T., Report: Los Angeles County Jail Deaths 2009. UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics, February 2023.

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Sheldon, M., Ragad, A., & Keel, T. (Eds.), Critical Approaches to Science and Religion (Columbia University Press, 2023)

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Walters, J.., Sosa, G., & Keel, T., Deaths in Dauphin County Prison (Harrisburg, Penn.), 2008-2022. UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics, June 2024.

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

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Nicholas Shapiro and Terence Keel “Naturalizing Unnatural Death in Los Angeles County Jails" Medical Anthropology Quarterly December 2023, Vol. 37, No. 4 

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Terence Keel, Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science (Stanford: Stanford University Press, January 2018)

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“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

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“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

with Projit Bihari Mukharji, Myrna Perez Sheldon, Elise K. Burton Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Emily Merchant, Wangui Muigai, Ahmed Ragab, and Suman Seth “A Roundtable Discussion on Collecting Demographics Data” Isis June 2020 111:2, 310-353

“The Religious Preconditions for the Race Concept in Modern Science”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 2019): 225-229

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“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

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“Race on both Sides of the Razor”, Kalfou “Symposium Issue on Race and Science”, Spring 2018, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 7-17

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“Concluding Remarks: Social Justice Requires BioCritical Inquiry” Kalfou “Symposium Issue on Race and Science”, Spring 2018, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 68-75

with Osagie Obasogie and Khiara Bridges, “Introduction: Critical Race Theory and the Life Sciences” (Symposium Issue) American Journal of Law and Medicine, Fall 2017 Vol. 43, Issue 2 & 3

“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

“Religion, Polygenism, and the Early Science of Human Origins” History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 26, Issue 2, April 2013: 3-32