Our Authors

Meet our contributors.

Yasmeen Arif

Yasmeen Arif is Professor in Sociology at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shiv Nadar University (Delhi NCR). Prior to this, she has taught sociology for more than a decade at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her book 'Life, Emergent: The Social in the Afterlives of Violence' (2016, University of Minnesota Press explores a politics of life across multiple global conditions of mass violence. More recently, Yasmeen Arif published 'Event and Everyday: Empiricisms and Epistemologies' (2024), an edited volume based on a decade long graduate research methods and theory seminar, where the idea of event as method is explored over various themes. Her current writing is a book on the bio-political critique of the government of identity. Other ongoing research areas include the city and urban studies, computational technologies and themes in AI, international law and humanitarianisms, aesthetics and visuality.

Selim Gökçe Atıcı

Selim Gökçe Atıcı is a Ph.D. candidate at the Anthropology Department at Stanford University. He currently works on relapse prevention programs in the Kansai region in Japan, focusing on self-organized support groups comprised of individuals attending DARC (Nihon Daruku) institutions and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) platforms.

Princess Banda

Princess Banda (she/ her) is a socio-medical anthropologist who, amongst many things, is primarily a writer, educator, and researcher. Princess is currently a DPhil Anthropology student at the University of Oxford and is cultivating a research pathway which embraces the intersections and entanglements between socio-medical anthropology, women's health, racial and social justice, and critical qualitative research methods. Her doctoral thesis explores how obstetric racism is not only a significant factor in UK Black women's intergenerational experiences of unequitable maternal health, but how it is also a kind of biopolitics which reflects the UK's wider politics of race and ethics of anti-Blackness.

Rhoda Mkazi Bandora

Rhoda Mkazi Bandora is a PhD student in Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research engages broader debates on feminism and body politics in Tanzania. She examines narratives surrounding women’s bodies and their interactions with the state, focusing on how women question, negotiate, and contest these narratives in their everyday lives. Rhoda has been involved in the Wellcome Trust–funded project What’s at Stake in the Fake: Indian Pharmaceuticals, African Markets and Global Health, led by Julia Hornberger and Sarah Hodges, from her Master’s studies through her PhD candidacy. More broadly, Rhoda brings feminist approaches to contemporary scholarly and policy discussions on fake drugs in Africa.

Dörte Bemme

Dörte Bemme is an assistant professor at the Department for Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the Department for Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University and held two postdocs in anthropology at UNC Chapel Hill and the New School, New York. She co-leads the social theory platform at the ESRC Centre for Society & Mental Health and is the managing editor of Transcultural Psychiatry. Dörte’s research is situated at the intersection of anthropology of knowledge and psychiatry. She has conducted long-term, multi-sited fieldwork among Global Mental Health experts in international institutions, globally networked consortia, and implementation sites in South Africa. Her work explores how mental health problems are construed, enacted, and experienced at different scales. Studying the production of global knowledge and care, focusses on how differently situated actors create, maintain, and reconcile orders of difference framed as pertaining to culture, power, intersectionality, epistemology, or location. Her recent methodological and theoretical interventions pursue “mutuality as a method” to make Global Mental Health more equitable (Bemme et.al 2023), and suggest to make social theory more inclusive of experiential knowledge and accountable to real world change (Bemme & Behague 2024).

Lyndsey Beutin

Lyndsey Beutin is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University and Visiting Research Scholar in African American Studies at Princeton University (2023-24). Her research focuses on the racial politics of media, technology, and social justice activism. She is the author of Trafficking in Antiblackness: Modern-Day Slavery, White Indemnity, and Racial Justice (Duke, 2023). She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2001 and has been an early adopter of many terrible diabetes technologies, including the first generation of continuous glucose monitors.

Shagufta Bhangu

Shagufta Bhangu is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. She is a medical and social anthropologist researching emergent epistemic forms, phenomenological experiences and therapeutics of pain and cancer in South Asia. She completed her PhD in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Shiv Nadar University, Delhi and was a Fulbright Nehru doctoral scholar in UCSF-UC Berkeley in 2017-2018. She is a co-convenor of the Political Stakes of Cancer Network and has recently co-authored the paper, 'The Political Stakes of Cancer Epistemics'.

Cal Biruk

Cal Biruk is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University. They identify as a “5.5er ally” (someone whose blood glucose hovers around 5.5mmol/L but loves and lives with a type 1 diabetic). Their interests are at the intersection of medical anthropology, STS, and queer studies. They are the author of 'Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World' (Duke, 2018) and numerous articles in journals including American Ethnologist, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Critical Public Health, and Gay and Lesbian Quarterly. They spend a lot of time birding.

Valerie Black

Valerie Black is a medical and sociocultural anthropologist and disability studies scholar who studies human-AI relationality. She currently lectures in the School of Public Health and the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Paloma Gay Blasco

Paloma Gay Blasco teaches social anthropology at the University of St Andrews. She is interested in the development of research methods that make academic work more accessible to participants. Most recently she has co-edited 'Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives: Methods, Ethics and Dilemma' (2024, Routledge).

Nik Brown

Nik Brown is Professor in Science and Technology Studies and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of York, and a long-standing member of York’s Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU). His areas of research concern the biopolitics of immunity in a wide range of empirical contexts including transplantation, biobanking, antimicrobial resistance, and the inter-relationships between microbial ecology, infections and architectural/building design.

Carlo Caduff

Carlo Caduff is a Professor in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, where he serves as Director of Research and Chair of the Culture, Medicine & Power (CMP) research group. He has been working for over a decade as a social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on the anthropology of science, medicine, media, technology and the state. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2009 and has been teaching at King’s since 2012. He is the author of 'The Pandemic Perhaps: Dramatic Events in a Public Culture of Danger' (University of California Press, 2015).

Sandra Calkins

Sandra Calkins is Associate Professor of Environment, Technology and Decolonial Knowledge within the Faculty of Behavioural, Management, and Social Sciences, University of Twente. As an anthropologist of science, she studies how knowledge about the environment comes to matter and shapes the health and futures of collective life. She is committed to thinking from, with and alongside particular lives, both human and more-than-human, relationships and worlds.

Timothy Campbell

Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He works at the intersection of contemporary Italian thought, biopolitics, and media studies. His scholarly work includes translations of Roberto Esposito’s Bios: 'Biopolitics and Philosophy and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community', as well as the co-translation of Carlo Diano’s 'Form and Event'. Campbell also served as editor of the “Commonalities” series at Fordham University Press and co-edited 'Biopolitics: A Reader' with Adam Sitze. Campbell’s own authored works include 'Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben' and 'Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life'. His most recent work, 'The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession', was co-authored with Grant Farred. He is currently completing his next book on democracy and biopolitics.

Başak Can

Başak Can is Associate Professor of Sociology at Koç University and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include medicine and political violence, gender and reproductive justice, and environmental health. She is the author of Forensic Fantasies: Doctors, Documents and the Limits of Truth in Turkey (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025), and her articles have appeared in American Anthropologist, Medical Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Her current research examines chronic illness and industrial pollution in a petrochemical town in Türkiye, asking how residents, clinicians, officials, and activists explain the causes of illness and what environmental health justice means in contexts where harm is layered and proof is difficult to establish.

Thomson Chakramakkil

Thomson Chakramakkil is a PhD candidate in the ‘Technology in Society’ research cluster of the department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi. He has held visiting fellowships at The Centre for Policy Futures (CPF), University of Queensland, and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi. Prior to pursuing his research interests, Thomson worked as a technical writer for Oracle, where he documented the management software applications manufactured by the company. Thomson's work attempts to understand the design and use of digital management technologies in the Indian knowledge workplace. He specifically focuses on how software systems (including enterprise applications & AI-based chatbots) enable organisations to quantify workers and transform them into self-managing human capital.

Sangeeta Chattoo

Sangeeta Chattoo is a medical anthropologist and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, at the University of York. Her research and publications focus on health inequalities at intersections of race, ethnicity, genetics/genomic technologies, disability, gender and citizenship.

Lijiaozi Cheng

Lijiaozi Cheng is currently holding a Mildred Blaxter Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Sheffield, having finished her PhD there entitled 'Making Sense of Suboptimal Health (亚健康): Negotiating and Embodying the Conceptual Space of “Neither Healthy Nor Diseased”' and having recently concluded her role as Research Associate on this project on Embedding cultural Intelligence in institutional leadership to improve inclusion. She is interested in exploring the intersection of the biological and the social, particularly the blurry areas between health and illness, bringing in diverse cultural perspectives from non-Western contexts.

Colin Clark

Colin Clark is Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) and Professor of Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Sciences at the Univeristy of the West of Scotland (UWS). His main areas of research are located within migration and ethnic and racial studies, with a specialist interest in Romani Studies. He has published widely in these fields over the last thirty years and has supervised and examined several PhD students. Outside of UWS, Colin is a director and board member of the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights, based in Glasgow, Scotland, and is a Trustee of Romano Lav (Roma Voice). He is also a committee member of The Traveller Movement, the Scottish Human Rights Commission, and the Advisory Council for the Education of Romanies and other Travellers. Most recently, in November 2024, Colin was elected to the Barvalipe Academy, the steering group for the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture.

Thandeka Cochrane

Thandeka Cochrane is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Wellcome funded ‘Cartographies of Cancer’ project in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. She is a social anthropologist with a keen interest in knowledge cultures in Africa. She is currently researching the colonial history of cancer registries in Africa and the British Empire Cancer Campaign and has published several research articles based on this work, 'Grammars of Progress and Pathology: A Recursive History of Africa, Cancer, and “Diseases of Civilization”' and 'The Model Multiple: Representing Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa'. She is a co-convenor of the Political Stakes of Cancer Network.

Holly Coltart

Holly Coltart is a junior doctor and an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in General Practice at St George's University, London. She received her MbChB in Medicine with an intercalated BSc in Medical Humanities from the University of Glasgow. She holds an MA in Medical Anthropology from Harvard University.

Thomas Cousins

Simon Cousins is the Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of Africa, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. He is an anthropologist of southern Africa with a particular interest in health, labour, and kinship, especially nutrition and pharmaceuticals and their attendant forms of value and life. His fieldwork to date has been in South Africa on topics including global health surveillance, welfare, communications technologies, and zoonosis.

Sally Cross

Sally Cross is a Research Assistant and PhD student at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester. Her PhD is focused on fibromyalgia and ME/CFS both in their contemporary historical developments and in the everyday experiences of clinicians, researchers and patients. She previously studied neuroscience and has worked for non-profit organisations that support communities facing socioeconomic and health injustices.

Vyoma Dhar Sharma

Vyoma Dhar Sharma is a postdoctoral fellow with the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Her research focusses on the political economy of ‘inclusive’ interventions within Reproductive & Child Health (RCH) programs in India. She is examining the role of colonial legacies and international power asymmetries in determining the meaning and scope of good health for women in developing countries.

Véra Ehrenstein

Véra Ehrenstein is a statutory member and researcher at the Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux (CEMS), Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. An engineer by training, she completed a thesis in the sociology of science and technology at the Centre for Sociology of Innovation at the École des Mines in Paris. Her current research focuses on how the climate crisis is transforming the life sciences, particularly so-called tropical forestry ecology and engineering in Central Africa.

Shobha Elizabeth John

Shobha Elizabeth John is a Ph.D. Scholar at the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, India. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English Language and Literature. Her current research interests include Memory Studies, Technology Studies, Popular/Digital Culture, and Medical Humanities. Shobha’s work focuses on the topics of cities, isolation, and exclusion in contemporary Indian cultural texts.

Fionna Fahey

Fionna Fahey is a Ph.D. student of Anthropology at Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States). Her work uses critical feminist and science and technology studies lenses to study seeds, intergenerational health, and social justice.

Éric Fassin

Éric Fassin is a professor of sociology and gender studies at Université Paris 8, affiliated with the research center SOPHIAPOL, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He works on gender, sexuality, race and immigration as democratic issues. He defines himself as a sociologue engagé, whose public interventions are related to his academic work (and vice-versa). Among his recent publications: 'State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender & Race. Illiberal France and Beyond,' CEU Press, Budapest, 2024; Forthcoming: 'La Savante et le politique. Ce que le féminisme fait aux sciences sociales' (with Caroline Ibos), Paris, PUF, 2025).

Sara E. Fischer

Sara E. Fischer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, USA. Her research focuses on health policy and systems at the national level in Malawi and at the global level. She studies processes of aid and global governance as well as how such policies impact service delivery on the ground. Sara's work is mainly qualitative and ethnographic in nature.

Edward Fischer

Edward (Ted) Fischer is Professor of Anthropology and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs the Cultural Contexts of Health and Wellbeing Initiative. His research focusses on issues of political economy, values, health, and wellbeing. He has authored or edited a number of books, including, most recently, 'Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value.'

Martin Fotta

Martin Fotta is the head of the Department of Mobility and Migration at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. His research on the Romani resilience in the aftermath of the pandemics been supported by the NPO ‘Systemic Risk Institute’ no. LX22NPO5101, funded by European Union – Next Generation EU (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, NPO: EXCELES).

Zoë Goodman

Zoë Goodman is an anthropologist and facilitator – she has worked at universities, arts organizations and the UN. Zoë is currently employed at the Centre for Medical Education, King’s College London and is the principal investigator on an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded grant, “Theatre-making in careless times: Arts-based approaches to care along the Kenyan coast”. Her research and facilitation endeavours explore how creative and embodied methods can support collective healing and social justice, within the health sector and beyond.

Nils Graber

Nils Graber is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair for the History of Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the Cermes3 research centre at the EHESS in Paris and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lausanne. At the intersection of STS, the history of science, and medical anthropology, his research examines care and research practices that question the boundaries between biomedicine and social medicine in different places. He has conducted research on experimental care in immuno-oncology, the role of primary care during the COVID-19 pandemics, and the globalisation of biopharmaceuticals, particularly in Cuba, Switzerland, and Brazil. His new project examines the transnational networks of cancer research involving socialist countries in the 1970s and 1980s as a genealogy of what is today considered as ‘global oncology’.

Jeremy Greene

Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, is a professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine and holds joint appointments in the Department of History of Science and Technology and the Department of Anthropology at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. His third and most recent book, 'The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth' (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines how changing expectations of instantaneous communications through electric, electronic, and digital media transformed the nature of medical practice and medical knowledge. His first two books, 'Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease' and 'Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine', (2007 and 2014, Johns Hopkins University Press) discuss the complex histories of medical technologies (like pharmaceuticals) and the series of legislative, regulatory, clinical, and consumer decisions that guide their production, circulation, and consumption. Dr. Greene’s newest research project, 'Syringe Tide: Disposable Technologies and the Making of Medical Waste', is supported by a 2023 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Carmine Grimaldi

Carmine Grimaldi is a filmmaker and historian, and is an assistant professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. He is currently making a film based on a collection of ½” reels from a video psychotherapeutic practice in the 1970s.

Katja Guenther

Katja Guenther is the author of 'The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences' (Princeton, 2022), and 'Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines' (Chicago, 2015). She is Professor of History at Princeton University, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2022.

Sugandh Gupta

Sugandh Gupta is an Indian-born sociocultural medical anthropologist and a psychologist who is interested in critically studying mental health institutions, policies, and client-clinician experiences. Her current project explores the impacts of long-term militarization and political conflict on injecting drug users, mental health professionals, and government programs that seek to rehabilitate drug users in Jammu City, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the South Asia Institute at Columbia University, and various departments and centers of UNC-CH, amongst others. Apart from extensive training in ethnographic research, she has nearly ten years of professional experience as an independent researcher, psychologist, and consultant.

Tine Hanrieder

Tine Hanrieder is Associate Professor in Health and International Development, Department of International Development, London School of Economics (LSE). Trained as a political scientist, she conducts research in the interdisciplinary fields of global health governance, labour, and migration. Her profile and latest publications are at https://www.lse.ac.uk/people/tine-hanrieder.

Benjamin Hegarty

Benjamin Hegarty is an anthropologist trained at the Australian National University whose ethnographic research investigates the intersection of epidemics and social life. He conducts fieldwork in Indonesia (2014-) and Papua New Guinea (2023-). His first book, 'The Made-Up State' (Cornell University Press, 2022) was awarded the Anne Bolin and Gilbert Herdt Prize by the American Anthropological Association. In 2023 he was appointed as a full-time social and behavioural researcher in the Asia and Pacific Health Program at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney. In 2024-25, he was awarded a French Institutes for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Fellowship at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study. He has held visiting fellowships at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the editorial boards of American Ethnologist, Medicine Anthropology Theory, BKI – Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, and History of Anthropology Review.

Miguel Angel Domínguez Hernández

Miguel Angel Domínguez Hernández is a general practitioner currently working for 'Compañeros en Salud/Partners in Health Mexico'. He received his licentiate degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Mar Hicks

Mar Hicks is an Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia, doing research on the history of computing, labor, technology, and queer STS. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA+ people change the core narratives of the history of computing. Hicks's multiple award-winning book, 'Programmed Inequality', looks at how the British lost their early lead in computing by discarding women computer workers. Their new work studies resistance and queerness in the history of technology. Hicks is also an Associate Editor of the 'IEEE Annals of the History of Computing', and co-editor of the book 'Your Computer Is On Fire' (MIT Press, 2021).

Sarah Hodges

Sarah Hodges is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. She uses ethnography and historical records to ask: what are the everyday lives of public health measures? Sarah’s field sites have included dumpsters behind hospitals, pharmaceutical distributors’ warehouse parking lots, radical newspaper archives, and hotel lobbies. In one way or another, all her research is empirically rooted in Tamil-speaking south India. She acknowledges the generous support from Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award “What’s at stake in the fake? Indian pharmaceuticals, African markets and global health” 212584/B/18/Z.

Greg Hollin

Greg Hollin is a Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. He is currently funded by the Wellcome Trust and is exploring the relationship between traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disease.

Julia Hornberger

Julia Hornberger is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She earned her PhD from Utrecht University and has written extensively on policing in South Africa, including her first book Human Rights and Policing: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Practice of Policing in Johannesburg. Based on several international research collaborations, her current research explores the intersections of security, markets, and health, focusing especially on the policing of fake medication and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Alex Hsu-Chun Liu

Alex Hsu-Chun Liu holds an MA in Science and Technology Studies from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and is pursuing an MD at Chang Gung University, Taiwan. He explores topics in medical anthropology and history with an emphasis on the transnational formation of temporalities, subjectivities, and knowledge in motion. His recent project traces a transpacific history of psychological anthropology and transcultural psychiatry, where questions of race, sexuality, and colonialism converge.

Marie-Andrée Jacob

Marie-Andrée Jacob is Professor of Law in the School of Law and Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds. She is interested in the ways regulation and other decision-making mechanisms shape and get shaped by healthcare settings. She is leading the AHRC project Making it to the Registers: documenting migrant carers’ experiences of registration and fitness to practise (makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk) and from 2024 will co-lead the AHRC Research Network on The Choreography of Consent: Experiments in dance/law research.

Leon Janauschek

Leon Janauschek is a Policy Officer at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He currently works on the nexus between climate change, adaptation policy, and health, as well as on health system strengthening in Europe and Africa. He holds a master’s degree in development studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and focuses his research on health, migration, and climate policy.

Jack Jiang

Jack Jiang is a PhD student in anthropology at the New School for Social Research. His current project centers on the activist community of anti-natalists protesting against human procreation, who provide a unique vantage point from which to explore forms of intergenerational ethics beyond those endemic to political institutions today. His research interests cover broadly death and extinction, religion and secularism, moral anthropology, and ecology. He has previously written for Public Seminar.

Keketso John Peete

Keketso John Peete is a medical anthropologist and PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, specialising in the study of social medicines, pharmaceuticals, and global health moralities. His research operates at the intersection of the moral economy of drugs, the political economy of pharmaceuticals, and the biopolitics of life within Southern and East Africa. Keketso is a doctoral fellow within the Wellcome Trust-funded project, “What’s at Stake in the Fake?” His doctoral dissertation examines the phenomenon of pharmaceutical fake-talk in Tanzania. It offers a critical analysis of how the international discourse regarding ‘fake’ pharmaceutical drugs is used to rationalise neoliberal shifts in healthcare, often leading to the erosion of national regulatory sovereignty in favour of international pharmaceutical interests.

Arvid Kachurin

Arvid Kachurin is a psychological anthropologist and an incoming PhD student in anthropology at Stanford University. He holds an MA in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research examines the sociocultural dimensions of psychological distress, with a focus on the lived experience of Borderline Personality Disorder, including patterns of affective instability, functional impairment, and suicidality. His broader interests include psychiatric anthropology, personality disorders, and the aesthetic mediation of mental illness in clinical and popular discourse.

Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho

Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho is at the Institut de recherche pour le développement, Paris. He is also a senior research fellow at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), and is affiliated with the Center for Population and Development (CEPED) at the University of Paris Cité, the University of Paris Sorbonne Nord, and the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm). He focuses his research on technological autonomy and health sovereignty initiatives, pharmaceutical R&D models aligned with equity and social justice, contributions of the Global South to technoscientific globalization, and global health policies in emerging countries.

Frédéric Keck

Frédéric Keck studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and at the Université Lille III, as well as anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He joined CNRS in 2005. He was a laureate of the Fondation Fyssen en 2007, received the CNRS bronze medal in 2011, and was a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in 2015. He directed the research and teaching department at the Musée du quai Branly between 2014 and 2018. He has been the director of the Laboratory for social anthropology since January 2019.

Jieun Kim

Jieun Kim is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds and the lead academic of the White Rose Collaboration project, ‘Vital Circulations: A Framework for Understanding Social Dynamics in and beyond a Pandemic’ (2021-2023). As a sociocultural and medical anthropologist, she is interested in scrutinizing the ways in which social inequalities are naturalised and contested based on perceptions of social and bodily differences. She is currently working on an AHRC-funded project exploring the politics of blood donation in Japan and Korea.

Angéla Kóczé

Angéla Kóczé is Assistant Professor, Chair of Romani Studies, and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at Central European University in Budapest and Vienna. Her interdisciplinary work bridges academic scholarship, community engagement, and policy making, with a focus on social inclusion, gender equality, and racial justice. She has published widely with international presses, including Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, and CEU Press. Kóczé received the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award from the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2013 and the Beth Rickey Award from Bard’s Center for the Study of Hate in 2023. In 2025, she was honored with the Emma Goldman Snowball Award by the FLAX Foundation for her pioneering work on gendered racialization and the oppression of Roma. She is editor and co-editor of several volumes, including 'The Romani Women’s Movement' (Routledge, 2019) and 'The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe' (Berghahn, 2020).

Wei-Hsiang Liao

Wei-Hsiang Liao, MD, MS, is a psychiatrist from Taiwan and a PhD student in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. His research interests lie in cultural psychiatry, psychological anthropology, and the governance of mental health, with a particular focus on how depression and suicide are understood and managed in Taiwan and East Asia.

Mariana Ramos Pitta Lima

Mariana Ramos Pitta Lima is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS/ Fiocruz), Brazil. She holds a PhD in Public Health from Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.

Adam Ludwig

Adam Ludwig is a writer and researcher based in Los Angeles, intending to begin an MD/PhD in the history of medicine in the fall of 2025. His research interests include 20th century American psychiatry, relationships between physicians and the administrative state, and visual culture and medicine.

Tanuj Luthra

Tanuj Luthra is a DPhil candidate in anthropology at the University of Oxford. His ethnographic research explores the everyday lives of informal health providers in low-income neighbourhoods in Delhi, examining how their labour mediates health outcomes, care relationships, and shifting norms around health and wellbeing in urban North India.

Christos Lynteris

Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His research focuses on zoonotic diseases from anthropological and historical perspectives. His latest book is 'Visual Plague: The Emergence of Epidemic Photography' (MIT Press, 2022).

Paul Martin

Paul Martin is Professor of the Sociology of Science and Technology at the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield. He is Co-Director of the flagship multidisciplinary research centre – the Institute for the Study of the Human (iHuman) – which explores what it means to be human in the 21st Century. His research is at the interface of science and technology studies and medical sociology. He is currently working on a major five-year fellowship on high priced “orphan” drugs for rare diseases funded by the Wellcome Trust. Other research interests include the clinical and commercial development of genomics.

Purbasha Mazumdar

Purbasha Mazumdar is a doctoral candidate at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a visiting scholar at the King's College London. Her doctoral research, ethnographically and historically, explores the making of the crisis of Antimicrobial Resistance by tacking across, and dissecting the coming together, of scales ranging from the geopolitical and the microbial/ the environment and the individual/the global and the local. The project attempts to understand how this crisis plays out, and is articulated across sites, in India.

Marissa Mika

Marissa Mika is a writer and editor living in Berkeley, California. She is the author of 'Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda,' which was a finalist for both the ASA Best Book Prize and the Bethwell A. Ogot Award for Best Book in East African Studies in 2022. Before taking an early retirement from academia, Dr. Mika was the founding director of the medical humanities program at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. Trained as a historian and anthropologist of medicine, science, and technology in Africa, she has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the History and Sociology of Science and a MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins.

Luiz Alves Araújo Neto

Luiz Alves Araújo Neto is a historian with a Ph.D. in History of Science and Health. He is based on the Department of History of Science and Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil working in the fields of history of medicine and public health, science and technology studies, and collective health. His research topics are cancer, epidemiology, health inequalities, rare diseases, and Long Covid. He participates in 'The Political Stakes of Cancer Network' and has published about the history of cancer in Brazil. His forthcoming book is 'História da prevenção do câncer no Brasil: conceitos, práticas e instituições' (History of cancer prevention in Brazil: concepts, practices and institutions).

Fartein Hauan Nilsen

Fartein Hauan Nilsen is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. His doctoral research examines the social and cultural dimensions of generative and conversational Artificial Intelligence, focusing on how these technologies shape emerging forms of life, kinship, and personhood. His fieldwork includes studies in California's AI industry, exploring digital afterlife tools, AI companions, and virtual humans. During his stay in California, Nilsen also served as a Visiting Student Researcher at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at UC Berkeley. Previously, Nilsen has conducted ethnographic research in Iceland, culminating in his Master's thesis, "A New Age for Old Gods: An Ethnographic Study of Ásatrúarfélagið in Iceland," which explored the revival of pagan beliefs in the context of modernity and technological change.

Jessica Nunes

Jessica Nunes is a registered CNPq researcher, and a PhD student of the Post-graduate Programme in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. A ‘Popular Educator’ inserted in the field of disability studies and inclusion policies, her current research focuses on Romani culture and identity in Rio Grande do Sul, with interests in the intellectual history of anthropology and visual anthropology. She is a member of the Centre for Anthropology and Citizenship (NACi-UFRGS), the Study Group on Anthropology and Disability (GEAD-UFRGS) and the Centre for Anthropology of Indigenous and Traditional Societies (NIT-UFRGS). Since 2019, she has worked as a sociology teacher at the Minervino de Oliveira Popular Education Collective (PVPMO).

Sarinah O'Donoghue

Sarinah O'Donoghue received her PhD from Aberdeen University in January 2024. During this time, she co-founded two networks (the Narratives of Neurodiversity Network and the Neurodivergent Humanities Network) that provide a platform for neurodivergent scholars, students, and community members to connect and share their experiences. She also wrote several articles, both single authored and co-authored, focused on neurodiversity and narrative. She is currently writing a book based on her PhD thesis and has a chapter in the upcoming edited collection, 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies', published by Bloomsbury. As well as being an independent researcher, she currently works at a national charity, which helps disabled and neurodivergent people into employment.

Rory J O’Connor

Rory J O’Connor is Charterhouse Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Leeds. He is Lead Clinician and Honorary Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, and Deputy Clinical Director and Rehabilitation Theme Lead for the National Institute of Health and Care Research Devices for Dignity MedTech Co-operative.

Kirsten Ostherr

Kirsten Ostherr is the author of 'Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television and Imaging Technologies' (Oxford, 2013) and 'Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health' (Duke, 2005). She is co-editor of a two-part special issue of 'Reviews in Digital Humanities' called “Race, Health, and Medicine,” editor of 'Applied Media Studies' (Routledge, 2018), and co-editor of 'Science/Animation', a special issue of the journal Discourse (2016). Kirsten is currently writing two books, 'The Visual History of Computational Health' and 'Virtual Health'.

Daniela Mosaad Pěničková

Daniela Mosaad Pěničková, Ph.D., is an applied medical anthropologist who dedicates her work to promoting culturally relevant health care systems. In the years 2000-2013 she received her professional training and taught at the University of Oregon and Northern Arizona University. For three years during the period, she lived on the San Carlos Apache reservation where she worked with Native Americans as a researcher and a community volunteer. Since 2015 she has served as an advisor for the Czech governmental institutions in the field of public health and social integration. She currently coordinates EU projects developing the Roma health mediation work in Velké Hamry and Liberec.

Thorben Peter Høj Simonsen

Thorben Peter Høj Simonsen holds a PhD from the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School. Before taking up a position as Researcher at the Danish Center for Social Science Research, he was an Assistant Professor at the IT University in Copenhagen, affiliated with the Technologies-in-Practice research group. His research interests converge around the role of space and place in healthcare. Previously he has studied the implications of so-called “healing architecture” for psychiatric practice, focusing on the role of the built environment. Increasingly, the role of digital technologies in healthcare, specifically immersive technologies like virtual reality, are the focus of his research.

Héloïse Pillayre

Héloïse Pillayre is a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po Lyon. After having worked on the politics of recognition and compensation of asbestos-related illnesses in France, followed by silicosis in South Africa, she is now interested in understanding the recent changes in cancer care in France, at the crossroads of sociology of public action, sociology of health and social studies of science. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals, including 'Compensation Funds, Trials and the Meaning of Claims: The Example of Asbestos-Related Illness Compensation in France,' Social and Legal Studies, Vol. 30, Issue 2, 2021 and 'What Rare Cancers have in Common. The Making of Lists of (very) Rare Cancers,' Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 8, 2023.

Branwyn Poleykett

Branwyn Poleykett is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. She specializes in the study of public, global, and planetary health and has conducted the majority of her research in the West African city of Dakar, in Senegal.

Ruth Prince

Ruth Prince is Professor of Medial Anthropology at the Institute of Health and Society, at the University of Oslo.  She was trained at Copenhagen, UCL and Oxford. Her current titled 'Universal Health Coverage and the Public Good in Africa: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives', a European Research Council Starting Grant is coming to a close. Ruth's recent work has looked at the economics of health in Kenya, including experiences of living with NCD's like cancer.  

Fabien Provost

Fabien Provost is a social anthropologist at the French Research Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a member of the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH). After focusing on the practice of forensic medicine (for his PhD), and on the politics of cancer care in North Indian hospitals (as a member of the project Grid Oncology: Remaking Cancer Care in India, 2020-2023), Fabien’s research now looks at the transformations of the notion of evidence in the aftermath of the Bhopal 1984 gas tragedy. Fabien is the author of Les mots de la morgue. 'La médecine légale en Inde du Nord' (2021, Éditions Mimésis) and the scientific editor of several collective publications. He is an elected member of the Association Française d’Ethnologie et d’Anthropologie and serves on the editorial board of journals Purushartha and Genèses.

Gabriela Radulescu

Gabriela Radulescu is a Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Gabriela holds a PhD in the history of science from the Technical University of Berlin. Her dissertation “A History of Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI): Astronautics and Radio Astronomy Across the Iron Curtain (1956-1976)” examined the political origins and history of the scientific field known to this day as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Her thesis is the first attempt to offer a highly contextualized historiographical account of CETI/ SETI, showing how it emerged and evolved throughout its first two decades. Gabriela also holds an MA in History of Ideas and Science from the University of Iceland, Reykjavik, and an MA in Social Anthropology from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. She was previously trained as a philosopher, with a BA from the University of Bucharest. Gabriela has experience organizing TEDx conferences, international volunteering, and writing academic book reviews.

Eugene Raikhel

Eugene Raikhel is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies. Eugene is a cultural and medical anthropologist with interests encompassing the anthropology of science, biomedicine and psychiatry; addiction and its treatment; suggestion and healing; and post-socialist transformations in Eurasia. He is particularly concerned with the circulation of new forms of knowledge and clinical intervention produced by biomedicine, neuroscience and psychiatry. His work follows therapeutic technologies as they move both from "bench to bedside" and from one cultural or institutional setting to another, examining how they intersect with the lives of practitioners and patients. His book 'Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic' was published by Cornell University Press in the Fall of 2016. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork in St. Petersburg among institutions dealing with substance abuse, this book examines the political-economic, epidemiological and clinical changes that have transformed the knowledge and medical management of alcoholism and addiction in Russia over the past twenty years. Two new projects, both based largely in North America, are in an earlier stage of development. The first of these, a collaboration with Stephanie Lloyd (Laval University) and researchers in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, examines the emerging field of "behavioral epigenetics," with a particular focus on research about suicidal risk. They are in the process of carrying out an ethnographic study to examine how neuroscientists, geneticists and psychiatrists draw upon the latest scientific knowledge to explain suicide, and how family members, in turn, take up these explanations. Eugene has also begun a second project, which will examine how contemporary logics, practices and politics of mental health and illness intersect with class distinctions and aspirations for upward mobility among undergraduates in the United States. From September 2007 to February 2010 Eugene held a postdoctoral fellowship in the CIHR Strategic Training Program in Culture and Mental Health Services Research in the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University. Eugene founded, edit and frequently contribute to Somatosphere, a collaborative academic weblog focused on medical anthropology at its intersections with cultural psychiatry, bioethics and science and technology studies.

Felix E. Rietmann

Felix E. Rietmann, MD, PhD, is research associate (SNSF Ambizione Fellow) at the chair of medical humanities at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, leading a research group on the history of child health in the nineteenth century. He has published on the history of medical and health technologies, the visual and material culture of medicine, literature and medicine, and the history of pediatrics, developmental psychology, and child psychiatry. He is currently completing a book project provisionally entitled 'Watching Babies: A History of Infant Mental Health'. The book explores how the baby has become a psychotherapeutic patient in twentieth and twenty-first century medicine. He is co-editor of the 'European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health'.

Danilyn Rutherford

Danilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her public-facing writings have appeared in TIME and Salon. She is the author of three academic books and, most recently, a memoir, 'Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World' (Duke University Press, 2025).

Chloé Schaer

Chloé Schaer is a PhD candidate and graduate assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Drawing on a feminist science and technology studies (STS) perspective that examines the intersections of gender and medicine, her work focuses on (bio)medicalization, gynecology, and pain. Her doctoral research explores the specialization of gynecological care and the problematization of hormones in the context of conditions such as endometriosis, PCOS (or PMOS), and menopause.

Clémence Schantz

Clémence Schantz is a sociologist and midwife, research fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) – Ceped UMR 196. Her research mainly focuses on cancers in West Africa and South-East Asia, and she is leading the SENOVIE project “Therapeutic mobilities and breast cancers” funded by the Institut Convergences et Migrations (ICM – 2021–2023), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF – 2022-2025) and the National Cancer Institute (INCa – 2022-2025). She also conducts research on anti-HPV vaccination in France (mainland and Reunion Island). Finally, her research focuses on maternal health through the biomedicalization of childbirth in different contexts (Cambodia, Mali, Benin, France), on women's demands (in particular through the concept of "obstetric violence") and on the alternatives proposed (birthing centers and “humanized” birthing projects).

Jean Segata

Jean Segata is a social anthropologist who specialises in multispecies health, epidemics, and biosecurity interventions. He has extensive experience conducting fieldwork and developing research collaborations across Latin America, primarily in Brazil. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil), where he directs the Rede COVID-19 Humanidades MCTI, as well as the Centre for Multispecies Anthropology (NAM). He is also a CNPq Researcher (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).

Kriti Sharma

Kriti Sharma is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University (Sonipat, India). She holds an MA in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests weave together the anthropology of biomedicine, genetics, and biotechnologies in relationship to questions about infertility and community-making in the Global South.

Carol Silverman

Carol Silverman has been involved with Romani culture for over forty years as a researcher, teacher, performer, and activist. An award-winning Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore at the University of Oregon, she focuses on Balkan music, migration, and human rights issues among Roma. Based on fieldwork in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, New York, and Western Europe, her numerous articles analyze the relationship among music, politics, ritual and gender, via issues of representation and appropriation. Her 2012 book 'Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora' (Oxford), won the book prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology, and her 2021 book 'Balkanology' (Bloomsbury) traces the politics and artistry of Bulgarian wedding music. She works with the US NGO Voice of Roma, is curator for Balkan music for RomArchive.eu, and was recently elected to the Barvalipe Academy of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture.

Jamie Stark

Jamie Stark is Professor of Medical Humanities in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the histories of infectious disease, public health, ageing, and nutrition, but his research is also rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration and partnership work. He is currently co-leading a major Wellcome-funded project – LivingBodiesObjects – which explores the relationships between bodies and technologies of health, and is also starting a major piece of research on the history of microbial culture collections, reflecting his long-standing interest in all things microscopic.

Anthony Stavrianakis

Anthony Stavrianakis is a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre. His work focuses on the logic of anthropological inquiry into the sciences (broadly conceived), and on issues related to knowledge, truth, and subjectivity in medicine, art, and psychoanalysis.

Nickolas Surawy Stepney

Nickolas Surawy Stepney is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Wellcome funded project ‘Grid oncology: remaking cancer care in India’ at King's College London, led by Professor Carlo Caduff. He completed his PhD in anthropology at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s in September 2022. Using ethnographic methodologies, his research examines the material and symbolic circulations of morphine in northwest India. 

Nishpriha Thakur

Nishpriha Thakur is a cultural anthropologist who works at the intersection of markets and medical anthropology. She has worked as a research fellow on the Wellcome Trust funded project, ‘What’s at stake in the fake: Indian pharmaceuticals, African Markets and global health’ led by PIs Sarah Hodges and Julia Hornberger. Largely, her work has been in the areas of informal markets, urban development, pharmaceuticals and healthcare markets. Nishpriha is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for her project ‘Middlemen in Global Health: Markets, Hospitals and Consultancies in North India’ which started in April 2026 at King’s College London.

Noémi Tousignant

Noémi Tousignant is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. Her work focuses on historical and contemporary intersections of biomedicine with global inequalities in health in West Africa, especially in Senegal. In the past, she has explored how toxicity circulates around scientific (in)capacity, the moral and political values of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy work, and the cumulative traces of past medical research. Currently, she holds a Wellcome Trust University Award, which funds research on the history of liver cancer in West Africa as an example of how advances in biomedical knowledge and technology generate unequal geographies of protection, persisting exposures and uncertainties, and dilemmas of care. She is also an advisor of the University of Oslo convergence environment AnthroTox.

Esca van Blarikom

Esca van Blarikom is a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College London, working on project comparing welfare systems and their impact on wellbeing. She holds an MSc in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the organization, logics and lived experience of biomedical care services and the welfare state. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow working on the project ‘The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid-19,' a multidisciplinary project with a focus on crafting conversations between social anthropology and biopolitics.

Cecilia Van Hollen

Cecilia Van Hollen is a Teaching Professor in the Asian Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research focuses empirically on social and cultural dimensions of health, medicine, the body, and global and public health policy in India, and theoretically on globalization and modernity; feminism and gender studies; critical medical anthropology; and social inequality and power. Her ethnographic projects have explored the intersections of class, caste and gender as women seek care for reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and cancer in Tamil Nadu, South India. She is the author of 'Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India' (University of California Press, 2003); 'Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India' (Stanford University Press, 2013); and 'Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality and Health in South India' (University of California Press, 2022).

Sabina Vassileva

Sabina Vassileva is a PhD student at Charles University in Prague and a junior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Their doctoral research explores hormonal intra-actions in metabolic diseases and how emerging metabolic technologies reshape the translation of gendered embodiments into metabolic care. Their research interests lie at the intersection of medical anthropology, STS and queer and trans theory.

Jaipreet Virdi

Jaipreet Virdi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware whose research focuses on the ways medicine and technology impact the lived experiences of disabled people. She is author of 'Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History' (University of Chicago Press, 2020).

Miriam Waltz

Miriam Waltz is assistant professor in gender justice and health technologies with a joint appointment between the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. Her research will focus on the development of an interdisciplinary hub on health technologies in Africa.

Lauren White

Lauren White is a Lecturer in Social Research Methods at the Sheffield Methods Institute (SMI). Lauren is a sociologist, but works across disciplines such as critical disability studies, geography, education and urban studies. She is interested in everyday experiences of health, illness and disability and utilises creative and participatory methods to explore these areas. Lauren has worked on various projects relating to experiences of health conditions and disability, with a particular focus on inequalities of toilet access in public life and the implications of this for health, wellbeing and social inclusion.

Ros Williams

Ros Williams is Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at the University of Sheffield. They write mainly about the intersection of race, technology and health and have recently completed a large Wellcome Trust project exploring how race is understood and operationalised in the context of blood, or bone marrow, stem cell donation. Ros is Associate Director of the ESRC Digital Good Network.

Chen Ying

Chen Ying is a Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. She is a qualitative medical and political sociologist specializing in modern China. She received her doctorate in sociology from the National University of Singapore and is currently working on her first book project, Spiritualizing Cancer: The Political Entanglement of New Religious Movement and Patient Activism in China, which examines patient activism with the cultural legacy of the Qigong movement in the 1980s.

Hannah Zeavin

Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor. She is an Assistant Professor of History at The Berkeley Center for New Media (UC Berkeley). Zeavin is the author of 'The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy' (2021) and 'Mother Media: Technology in the American Family' (MIT Press, expected 2025). She is at work on her third book, 'All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance' (US: Penguin Press; UK: Fern Press). In 2021, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of 'Parapraxis', a new magazine for psychoanalysis. She also serves as an Associate Editor for 'Psychoanalysis & History', an Editorial Associate for 'The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association', on the editorial board of 'Television and New Media', and a series editor of Palgrave’s 'Studies in the Psychosocial'. Essays and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, Dissent, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere.

Peyman Zinati

Peyman Zinati is a doctoral researcher in Ethno-Political Studies at the University of Exeter. His research looks at smuggling and state power in Iran. He studies how goods, people, and information move across Iran's western borders despite the law. His work is based on ethnographic and archival research, and it explores how informal trade operates alongside official systems rather than outside them. He is interested in how these local trade practices connect Iranian markets to global logistics.

Franziska Zirker

Franziska Zirker is a Research Associate in the subproject “The Pandemic Situation. Health Security and the Politics of Epidemiological Data” of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre “Dynamics of Security. Types of Securitization from a Historical Perspective” at the University of Marburg. Her PhD research investigates technoscientific efforts to make health emergencies governable through the “real time” capture of the given epidemic situation as a snapshot of quantitative data streams. Trained in sociology and political science at the Universities of Marburg and Frankfurt/Main, she is passionate about feminist theory, science and technology studies, and social research methods.