gbanan@yorku.ca
Guita Banan is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at York University. She studies history of neuroscience, ethics of neurotechnology, and neurobiological conceptions of humanness through the lens of Feminist STS and Black Studies. The focus of her PhD research is early clinical neurology in the late 19th century in the US within the racial context of post-slavery. She aims to understand the entanglements between the emergence of a field concerned with studying bodyminds and the racial shifts and continuations that worked to preserve a privileged and overrepresented category of “human,” as well as implications for contemporary ethical discourses. Guita received her MA from Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto and holds a PhD in (neuro)physics from the University of Florida. She received her BSc in physics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran.
Keywords: Feminist STS; Black Studies-STS; race; history of clinical neurology and modern neuroscience; ethics