Media Archive

Media Archive 

Videos: 

• Penn 60-Second Lecture: “Genetic Ancestry Testing and Race” (2023) 

• The Philadelphia Ethical Society: “The Social Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing” (2022) 

• CBS3 News, “Boy in the Box: How DNA helps investigators solve crimes” (2022)  

• Behavioral Corner Podcast: Ep 40 – “DNA Tests, Race, and Ancestors with Wendy Roth” (2021) 

• National Human Genome Research Institute – Virtual Event: Why am I Irish yesterday and Italian today: “Cherry Picking Italian” (2020) 

• National Human Genome Research Institute – Virtual Event: Why am I Irish yesterday and Italian today: Panel Discussion and Q&A Session (2020) 

• Vox: “What DNA ancestry tests can — and can’t — tell you” (2019) 

• Genetics and Genealogy Workshop: “Part 4 of 8 – Genetic Genealogy & Racial and Identity by Wendy Roth” (2018) 

• Pathways to Prosperity Canada – Workshop on International Students as Future Permanent Residents: “Study of International Student Integration: UBC” (2018) 

• Wall Scholar Speaker Series, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies: “Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Meaning of Race” (2016) 

• Global Encounters Initiative Symposium: “Caribbean Diasporas” (beginning at 1:11:00) (2010) 

Podcasts & Audio Interviews: 

• CBC Radio Québec, CBC Radio Noon (2023)  

• CBC Radio, Ontario Today: “How did DNA change your story?” (2023) 

• NPR Radio, “The Census Has Revealed A More Multiracial U.S. One Reason? Cheaper DNA Tests” (2021)  

• NPR Code Switch: “Painting By Numbers” (2021)  

• Ö1, Austrian public radio 1, Vienna, “Dimensionen,” (2021) 

• BYU Radio: “DNA Tests: Facts vs. Fiction” (2019) 

• NPR Invisibilia: “White v. White?” (2019) 

• NPR Radio, KCUR 89.3 in Kansas City: “Does your DNA make you who you are?” (2018) 

Essays, Editorials & Public Sociology: 

• Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal, Cassi Pittman Claytor, San Juanita García, Onoso Imoagene, Verna Keith, Hadi Khoshneviss, Catherine Lee, Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, Victor E. Ray, and Wendy D. Roth. 2020. “Systemic Anti-Black Racism Must Be Dismantled: Statement by the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 6(3): 289-291. 

• “Genetic ancestry tests don’t change your identity, but you might.” The Conversation (2018)  

• “What does a Trump presidency mean for Canada?” UBC Faculty of Arts website (2016) 

• “Creating a ‘Latino’ Race.” The Society Pages (2013)  

• “Ask Elizabeth Warren the Right Question.” Remarks: Newsletter of the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, American Sociological Association, Summer issue (2012)  

Print Media Coverage and Interviews: 

• The Dispatch, “Native American Population Growth, Explained” (2023)  

• Penn Today “Who, What, Why: Sociologist Wendy Roth on genetic ancestry tests and race perception” (2022) 

• New York Times, “America’s Brutal Racial History Is Written All Over Our Genes” (2021)  

• Maisonneuve magazine, “Genetic Mapping” (2021)   

• Consumer Reports, “Read This Before You Buy a Genetic Testing Kit” (2020)  

• BuzzFeed Opinion, “How Not To Talk About Race And Genetics” (2018) 

• Wired Magazine, “Your ‘Ethnicity Estimate’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does” (2020) 

• Oregon Public Broadcasting, “How Oregon’s statistics on race often get misinterpreted” (2020) 

• Slate, “Does a Pie Chart Change Who You Are?” (2020) 

• Times of Israel, “Study highlights dangers of DNA tests used to back up preexisting ideas of race” (2020) 

• Inverse, “DNA tests can amplify racist views, new study shows” (2020) 

• Science News, “To fight discrimination, the U.S. census needs a different race question” (2019) 

• Wall Street Journal, “A White Woman Searches for Her Black Family” (2019) 

• New York Times, “How White Nationalists See What they Want to See in DNA Tests” (2019) 

• Huffington Post, “A DNA Test Revealed This Man is 4% Black. Now He Wants To Abolish Affirmative Action” (2019) 

• The Guardian, “Users of home DNA tests ‘cherry pick’ results based on race biases, study says” (2018) 

• CBC News, “People prefer a good story, no matter what their DNA says” (2018) 

• Infobae, “Latinos en los Estados Unidos: ¿la discriminación aumentó o ahora es más visible? (2018) 

• The Daily Beast, “‘Walking Up’ to a Troubled Student Won’t Stop School Shootings – No Matter What This Viral Photo Says” (2018) 

• The Source, “Dialogue and education as tools to end racial discrimination” (2017) 

• Now Toronto, “Fat Bastard Burrito’s racy hustle” (2016) 

• The Canadian Press, “Basketball player Josiah Wilson surprised by spotlight on his identity” (2016) 

• The Source, “Shade-ism – bringing it to light” (2012) 
• University World News, “Scholarships connect locals to their roots, African students to agriculture” (2012)