Mishele Lesser’s Genoscapes explores the meaning of human genetics

Mishele Lesser, a student who I mentored, just presented her final thesis project Genoscapes. Mishele and I spent a lively semester talking about the meaning of human genetics, a discussion that ranged from very mechanical questions about how genetics work to more philosophical questions about how to interpret genetic data and the potential identity it can portray. We also did a lot of concept mapping, a practice that had a big influence on the direction of Mishele’s final work.