Terence Keel

Terence Keel is a professor with a split appointment in the Department of African American Studies, and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. He studies the interaction between human biology and society, especially among the politically vulnerable.

His expertise includes democracy, state violence, criminal justice, health inequality, scientific and medical bias, eugenics, race and religion, and African American history.

Keel is the author of: “The Coroner's Silence: Death Records and the Hidden Victims of Police Violence” (Beacon Press, 2025), “Critical Approaches to Science and Religion” (Columbia University Press, 2023) and “Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science” (Stanford University Press, 2018).