Christopher Morris Personal Details Organization: Visiting Scholar E-mail Address: morrisck@gmail.com Degree: MA Job Description Visiting Scholar Research Interest Anthropology of law, politics, and biotechnology Other information Chris is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology and an instructor in the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His interest in the anthropology of law, politics, and biotechnology emerged as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Regensburg looking at the social effects of the German state’s response to the outbreak of Mad Cow disease in Bavaria. As an MA student, he conducted multi-sited research in the offices of German and Tanzanian ministries, development corporations, and European NGOs involved in health-sector reform in Tanzania. He continues to find North-South (especially European-African) development cooperation to be an exciting window into the governance of health technologies. Now a Social Science Research Council and National Science Foundation fellow, his current dissertation research concerns inequality and legal contestation over pharmaceutical bioprospecting for South African genetic resources for drug development and sales.  Back