Keisha S. Ray, PhD

Biography

Keisha Ray earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of Utah. She is currently an assistant professor with the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics and serves as the Director of the McGovern Center’s Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. Before joining the McGovern Center, she was an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, a postdoctoral fellow with the McGovern Center, a lecturer at various universities in Texas and Utah, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of South Carolina.

Most of Dr. Ray’s work focuses on the social, political, and cultural determinants of Black people’s health, integrating race education into medical school curricula, and the ethics of biomedical enhancement. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Medical Humanities and Pediatrics, as well as edited volumes, and textbooks. She currently has a monograph in progress on Black people’s health contracted with Oxford University Press. Dr. Ray also serves as an associate of the American Journal of Bioethics blog site to which she is a regular contributor.