About the Director
Anthony Ryan Hatch (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Maryland at College Park, 2009) is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and African American Studies and is an affiliated faculty member in the Bailey College of the Environment and the Department of Sociology. His research interests lie at the intersection of science and technology, health and medical humanities, and social inequality and power. He is the author of Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America (Minnesota, 2019) and Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America (Minnesota, 2016). His newest co-authored book, The Racial Cage (Minnesota, 2025) investigates the potential of biohumanities as a foundation for antiracist critique of the human. He received the 2022 Robin W. Williams Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Eastern Sociological Society and served as the 2023 William Allan Neilson Chair of Research at Smith College.
Dr. Hatch is the founding director of Black Box Labs, an undergraduate laboratory that trains students in qualitative research methods aligned with science and technology studies. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association, Wellcome Trust, and Wesleyan University. He is a member of the Hastings Center and has served on scientific advisory boards including the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Medicine, the Greenwall Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program Committee, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and the Opioid Industry Documents Archive. He has served on the editorial boards of Science, Technology, and Human Values and the Social History of Drugs and Alcohol.