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Associate Professor Nadine Ehlers is a leading scholar in the Discipline of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Sydney. She serves as Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and leads the ‘Race, Ethnicity, and the Biohumanities’ research theme. Ehlers has held academic positions at Georgetown University, University of North Carolina, and The Ohio State University, and was a Visiting Scholar at University of California, Berkeley and New York University.
Her research spans Critical Race Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, and Biopolitics, with a focus on intersections between race, biomedicine, and governance. Recent work explores how life-making practices in biocultures produce systemic death and inequity, particularly for Black and minoritized communities. She is a key voice in debates about genetic research, racialized health disparities, and biofutures.
Ehlers’ publications reveal a trajectory from 2003 to 2025, with a focus on racialization, biomedicine, and neoliberal governance. Her scientific awards include multiple grants from the Australian Research Council, Wellcome Trust, and Menzies Australia Institute, totaling over $2 million in funding.
- Scientific Awards
- 2025: King’s Australia Partnership Seed Fund ($16,000)
- 2024: Charles Perkins Centre Research Fund ($294,000)
- 2024: Race and Biohumanities Workshop ($16,000)
- 2023: ARC Discovery Grant ($615,000)
- 2019: Wellcome Trust Small Grant ($60,000)
- 2018: FASS Strategic Research Theme ($80,000)
- Recent PhD Supervision
- Freya Kerwick (2025): Constructing Failure: The Incel Subject within Contemporary Sexual Identification
- Gilbert Knaggs (2025, ongoing): Getting Older, Living Rural: A Qualitative Study with Older Adults of Rural NSW
