Dr. Mannie Liscum
Dr. Liscum's interests in race, citizenship and justice span two major topics: 1) How has/is science, both historically and contemporarily, influenced by concepts of race, ethnicity, and prejudice; and how does such influence impact the societal and ethical outcomes of scientific study? Much of his current focus is on eugenics, past and present. Dr. Liscum is a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences.
Beyond his interests in light-regulated plant growth and development, Prof. Liscum is also interested in how prejudice has impacted, and still impacts, science and public policies of exclusion and worse. Much of this interest is currently focused on eugenics, past and present; a topic central to an Honors course Prof. Liscum co-teaches with another DBS faculty member, Prof. Michael Garcia. As a faculty scholar in the Middleton Center for Race, Citizenship & Justice, Prof. Liscum is also working with other Mizzou faculty from diverse disciplines to ask: (1) How is/was science, both historically and contemporarily, influenced by concepts of race, ethnicity, and prejudice? (2) How do such influences impact the societal and ethical outcomes of scientific study?
You can't keep a bad idea down: Dark history, death, and potential rebirth of eugenics. M Liscum, ML Garcia, The Anatomical Record 305 (4), 902-937 (2022)
Phytochrome B is required for systemic stomatal responses and reactive oxygen species signaling during light stress, AR Devireddy, E Liscum, R Mittler, Plant Physiology 184 (3), 1563-1572 (2020)
Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945, M Liscum, Global War Studies 15 (1), 48-48 (2018)