Nadia Abu El Haj Quotes

United States, Academic
1962

Nadia Abu El Haj Arabic is an American academic with a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University. She is an associate professor of anthropology at Barnard College.

Also known as Author, Anthropologist

A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.

Nadia Abu El Haj