Duana Fullwiley is an anthropologist whose writings explore the liveliness of the body, the ways we communicate through the natural environment, and the cultural intricacies of how people express normalcy and disease. Her award-winning nonfiction books include The Enculturated Gene (Princeton, 2011) and Tabula Raza (University of California, 2024), which have won the Amaury Talbot Prize (2013), the Robert Textor and Family Prize (2014), the Diana Forsythe Prize (2024) and the C. Wright Mills Award (2025). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Ars Medica, The Boston Review, La Revue des Sciences Sociales, and have also been anthologized in the collection Black Rootedness (Elyssar, 2022). Nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize, her poems were selected by the West Oakland to West Africa poetry exchange to be performed in the stage play Lake Walking: Revolutionary Talking for the 2024 San Francisco International Arts Festival. Most recently, she has collaborated with two visual artists for Portland, Oregon’s 2025 Ekphraestival for the group show Intertwined. Fullwiley is a professor of anthropology at Stanford University where she bridges fields of humanities, the medical arts and various sciences in lecture courses, seminars and writing workshops.
Mount Teide on the Canary Island of Tenerife is the highest peak in Spain, at 12,188 feet. And the third largest volcano in the world. It is considered active but hasn’t blown since 1909. There is an otherworldly element to it. NASA worked with Spanish aerospace experts on Teide to build a prototype for the data-gathering robot called Perseverance that… Read more →