Student Scholar Spotlight – Raylee Mitchell
Student Scholar Spotlight – Raylee Mitchell
Featured student work during their time as a college scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Raylee Mitchell
My program of study is called “Genetics and Globalization.” Through this program, I hope to examine the way that genetic sciences and people’s perceptions of them have contributed to racism, sexism, and other types of prejudice throughout history from the time of Gregor Mendel (the father of genetics) to the current day.
I want to compare reactions to genetic knowledge and discoveries and other outcroppings of activity over time and attempt to identify how the processes of globalization have changed the ways in which people express and hold prejudiced beliefs (as they relate to genetic concepts), as well as the way globalization might have had a positive impact on how people view those who present phenotypically as different than themselves.