Donna M. Goldstein
Affiliate Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Media Studies

´¡²õ²õ´Ç³¦¾±²¹³Ù±ðÌý±Ê°ù´Ç´Ú±ð²õ²õ´Ç°ù Donna M. Goldstein, who joined the CU faculty in 1994, received her BSÌýin Rural Sociology from Cornell University, Ed.M., Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education and MAÌýand PhDÌýin Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has written extensively on the intersection of race, gender, poverty and violence in Brazil. She is the author of the critically acclaimedÌýLaughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio ShantytownÌý(University of California Press 2003) and winner of the 2005 Margaret Mead award for her contributions to public anthropology. Laughter Out of Place focuses on the lives of impoverished domestic workers living in Rio de Janeiro’s infamous shantytowns who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. The book came out in second edition with a new preface in 2013.

Currently, Goldstein is working on a series of interconnected projects within medical anthropology and the anthropology of science. She is writing about pharmaceutical politics, bioethics, regulationÌýand neoliberalism in Argentina and the United StatesÌýand is investigating the history of genetics, Cold War science, the health of populationsÌýand the future of nuclear energy in Brazil.Ìý She is currently leading a collaborative and interdisciplinary research project with colleagues at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in Brazil and at CU.Ìý The team is about to begin research on a pilot project that investigates issues related to the health of populations living proximate to the Angra nuclear complex in Brazil.

She is currently serving as Director of the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social SciencesÌýÌý(2012-2015), where she is organizing two new initiatives on the Community Impact of Energy Sources. One initiative is titledÌýHuman Survival in a Nuclear AgeÌýand the second is titledÌýThe Effects of Hydraulic Fracturing on Communities.

Goldstein is one of the founders of theÌýLatin American Studies CenterÌý(LASC) at CU and currently serves as its Director (2014-2015).