Aishani Aatresh is a PhD student in Public Policy and a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School.

Janneke Adema is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. She is a cultural and media theorist working in the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture. She is the author of Living Books, Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021).

Marc Aidinoff is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Mustafa Al-Bassam is a Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at University College London, and previously one of 6 core members of the hacking collective LulzSec

Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on cities, infrastructure, state power, and climate change, which he addresses by studying the political ecology of cities, read through the different lives of water. His is author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Politics in Mumbai (Duke University Press 2017).

A. Aneesh is Professor of Global Studies and Sociology and Executive Director of the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Virtual Migration (Duke University Press, 2006) and Neutral Accent (Duke University Press, 2015).

The young women who make up the Ankur Writers Collective live in Delhi’s working-class neighborhoods. They meet several times a week to read aloud their stories, which usually respond to a mutually decided prompt. They draw on their own experiences and on interviews, observation, and imagination. Comments, critique, and suggestions from members of the Collective help them revise and polish their drafts. The Collective is set up and supported by Ankur Society for Alternatives in Education, a Delhi-based NGO that has been engaged in building the intellectual life of working-class neighborhoods for more than four decades. Currently, the Collective includes more than five hundred writers across seven localities. Their work has been published in literary journals and collected volumes. An anthology of translations titled Trickster City was published by Penguin India in 2010.

Dela Anyah is a Ghana-based artist, who reimagines discarded materials—such as inner tubes and tires—into sculptures that explore themes of rebirth and identity. His work critiques conventional notions of value, emphasizing narratives of renewal and the socio-cultural implications of waste and sustainability. You can learn more at delaanyah.com.

Claudio Aporta is Associate Professor and Director of Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University.

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Smith College. His most recent book is Roads to Prosperity and Ruin: Infrastructure and the Making of Neoliberal Yucatán (University of North Carolina Press, 2025). His current research focuses on the history of Mayanist archaeology.

Jackie Ashkin is a scholar of science, technology, and the environment currently finishing her PhD at Leiden University and working as postdoc at the Delta Climate Center, both in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the politics of knowing and adapting to (coastal) ocean futures. She draws on the material properties of ocean water to better understand scientific knowledge practices and infrastructures, engage with the world-making role of technology, and examine the limits of neoliberal environmental governance. Through her work, Jackie seeks to rethink Eurocentric and colonial imaginations of environmental crisis that in turn shape what futures are within reach.

Soe Lin Aung is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His research focuses on infrastructure, dispossession, and popular politics in rural Myanmar.

Jonathan Bach is Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at The New School in New York.

Götz Bachmann is Professor for Digital Cultures at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media and convenor of the Bachelor Major Digital Media at Leuphana University, Germany.

J.R. Baldwin is an award-winning UX/UI designer and engineer, and co-founder of the start-up Kip, a design and tech partner.

Andrea Ballestero is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Her most recent book is A Future History of Water (Duke University Press, 2019).

Jenny Bangham is a historian of science at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and is writing a book on mid-century blood transfusion and human genetics.

Andrew Barry is Chair of Human Geography at University College London.

Amita Baviskar is a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University. Her most recent book is Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi (Sage, 2020).

Tarini Bedi is LAS Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her most recent book is Mumbai Taximen (University of Washington Press, 2022).

Héctor Beltrán is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT and the author of Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands (Princeton University Press, 2023). His current research examines digital nomadism in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Etienne Benson is an Assistant Professor and historian of the environmental sciences, environmentalism and human-animal relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sarah Besky is Professor of the Anthropology of Work in the ILR School at Cornell University. Her research uses ethnographic and historical methods to study the intersection of inequality, nature, and capitalism in the Himalayas. Her most recent book is Tasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea (University of California Press, 2020).

Jacqueline Best is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where she works on political, cultural and social underpinnings of the global economy. Her most recent research examines the concept and role of economic exceptionalism in times of crisis.

Paula Bialski is a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University’s Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL), where she bides her time pestering students in the Digital Media BA program and conducting an organizational ethnography of a corporate tech company in Berlin.

Xhulio Binjaku is a Researcher at the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism

Reuben Binns is a postdoctoral research fellow in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, interested in philosophical, technical and legal aspects of personal data, privacy, and the web.

Carwil Bjork-James is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

Pablo J. Boczkowski is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is working on a book manuscript provisionally titled Digital Freud: Technology, Work and Society in Contemporary Mental Health.

Bodó Balázs, PhD, is an economist and piracy researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.

Christian Borch is Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Theory at the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Philip Bougen, University of New Mexico

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor of Informatics at University of California, Irvine and is working on the nature of the Archive.

Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University.

Paul Braund is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex and works at the intersection of information systems, design and international development.

Damien Bright is Assistant Instructional Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He studies why contemporary science and politics depict the Earth as a problem to solve and what happens when they try.

Finn Brunton is an assistant professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.

Michaela Büsse is an interdisciplinary researcher, filmmaker, and postdoctoral fellow at TU Dresden. Her work examines environmental speculation and emerging material and territorial configurations in the context of planetary urbanization and the climate crisis.

Jeremy Butman is a writer living in Queens, New York. He is working on a book about the politics of the supernatural for Strange Attractor Press. 

ASHLEY CARSE is an anthropologist of the built environment. He is Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University. Read more at www.ashleycarse.com.

Michael Carter is a doctoral research student in the Department of Geography, also at Queen’s University.

Brenda Chalfin is the Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida

Jiat-Hwee Chang is Dean’s Chair Associate Professor of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature, and Technoscience (Routledge, 2016).

Panita Chatikavanij is a Ph.D. candidate of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Aldo Chircop is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Maritime Law and Policy at Dalhousie University

Liza Rose Cirolia is Professor at the Université Gustave Eiffel, École d’Urbanisme de Paris, based in the Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés (LATTS). She is also Associate Professor at the African Centre for Cities, UCT.

Franck Cochoy is Professor of sociology at the University of Toulouse, a member of the CERTOP-CNRS, France.

Lawrence Cohen is the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

E. Gabriella Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University.

Stephen J. Collier is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies city planning and urban governance from the broad perspective of the critical social science of expertise and expert systems. His latest book is The Government of Emergency: System Vulnerability, Expertise, and the Politics of Security (with Andrew Lakoff) (Princeton University Press, 2021).

Naomi Colvin is Beneficiary Case Director at the Courage Foundation, which supports whistleblowers, hacktivists and other truthtellers who have made import contributions to the historical record.

Jason Cons is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is Delta Futures: Time, Territory, and Capture on a Climate Frontier (University of California Press, 2025).

Alberto Corsín Jiménez is a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Nancy Couling is an architect and independent researcher currently collaborating with ETH Zurich. She is the co-editor of The Urbanisation of the Sea (nai010, 2020). Between 2019 and 2025, she was Professor at Bergen School of Architecture.

Deborah Cowen is Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, St. George Campus. Her research looks at how conflicts over infrastructures have come to define our political landscape. She is the author of The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (University of Minnesota Press, 2014).

Savannah Cox is a writer and editor in New York City.

Jamie Cross is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Glasgow.

Chris Csíkszentmihályi is a scholar and technologist whose work draws from the humanities, design, and art.

Heather Davis is Associate Professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, The New School. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in environmental humanities, media studies, and visual culture, she is interested in how fossil fuels have shaped contemporary culture. Her most recent book is Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022).

Vadig de Croehling is an artist, curator, scholar of visual culture, and founding director of the Group for Research on Experimental Accumulation and Speculative Archives (REASArch).

Michael Degani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Alain Desrosières was a statistician at the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) in Paris and historian of science at the Centre Alexandre Koyré, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) (Paris).

Philip Di Salvo is a researcher and a journalist. Currently, he is a doctoral student at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland).

Lina Dib is an affiliate artist at the Topological Media Lab at Concordia University in Montreal and Tx/Rx labs in Houston, and research fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Rice University where she also teaches.

Emmanuel Didier is a permanent researcher at EHESS – CNRS, Groupe de sociologie politique et morale (GSPM), in Paris.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger.

Kevin P. Donovan is a doctoral candidate in the programs in Anthropology & History and Science, Technology & Society at the University of Michigan.

Joan Donovan is Media Manipulation Research Lead at Data and Society in New York.

The Dredge Research Collaborative is Sean Burkholder, Brian Davis, Rob Holmes, Justine Holzman, Tim Maly, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth

Rob Drew is a Professor of Communication at Saginaw Valley State University and the author of Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable (Duke University Press, 2024).

Jatin Dua is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a member of the Chokepoints Collective. 

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier is research professor at Sciences Po and works at the Centre de sociologie des organisations in Paris.

Vincent Duclos is Assistant Professor at Drexel University, with a joint appointment in the Center for Science, Technology & Society, and the Dept. of Global Studies & Modern Languages.

Benjamin Duester is a Research Fellow in Musicology at Georg August University of Göttingen. His first book is Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (Bloomsbury, 2025).

Elizabeth Dunn is an Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Department of International Studies (joint appointment), Indiana University, Bloomington IN.

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Senior lecturer for security studies and deputy for research and teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

Ben Eastham is a writer and editor based in London. He is editor-in-chief of e-flux Criticism and co-founder of The White Review. He is also the author of The Imaginary Museum (HarperCollins, 2020) and The Floating World (Astra House, 2026).

Tor Ekeland is many things to many people, but mostly a lawyer.

Timothy W. Elfenbein is the principal of Forthcoming, a publishing consultancy. He advises and works with scholar-led presses, learned societies, university presses, and infrastructure providers to promote a diverse and flourishing scholarly communication community.

E.M Elshaikh is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago.

Lukas Engelmann is a historian of medicine and postdoctoral scholar at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

Adolfo Estalella is a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Nicholas H. A. Evans is an anthropologist who writes about South Asia at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

Makalé Faber Cullen is the Creative Director of Wilderness of Wish, an ethnographic research and design practice based in New York City and operating internationally.

Alison Fairbrother is the executive director of the Public Trust Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that investigates and reports on misrepresentations of science by corporations, government and the media.

Ignacio Farías is Assistant Professor of Participatory Technology Design in the Department of Architecture at Technische Universität, München.

Areeba Fatima is a journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan who conducts research and reports on the economy and politics, in addition to fact-checking mainstream media.

Lyle Fearnley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Harris Feinsod is Ralph S. and Becky G. O’Connor Associate Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Tidewater Initiative, a waterfront research group. He is the author of The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Alek Felstiner is an employment lawyer at Levy Ratner, P.C., a firm at the forefront of the workers' rights movement.

Catherine Fennell is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She has written about public housing reforms in Chicago, and is at work now on a book about the ends of vacant homes in late industrial urban America.

Emmanuelle Fillion is a health and disability sociologist.

Adam Fish is an anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University where he researches digital industries and digital activism.

Steven Flipse (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Science Communication at the Delft University of Technology.

Andreas Folkers is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and works on the techno-biopolitics of infrastructure.

Luca Follis is a political sociologist and Lecturer in the Law Department at Lancaster University; his work focuses on the intersection of law, the state and resistance.

Robert Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is a a staff writer at Motherboard, where he covers hacking, information security, and digital rights.

Susanne Freidberg is Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College.

Michele Friedner is a medical anthropologist and a Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Sensory Futures: Cochlear Implant Infrastructures and Deafness in India (University of Minnesota Press, 2022).

Xaq Frohlich is an Assistant Professor of History of Technology in the Department of History at Auburn University.

Jonathan Galka is a historian of contemporary earth and environmental sciences, focusing on the oceanic dimensions of resource extraction since the mid-20th century. He is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at KTH Stockholm.

Mariah Garnett is an Assistant Professor of Media at University of California, San Diego, and an artist/filmmaker represented by Commonwealth + Council. Her experimental documentaries investigate the relationship between subject and author. Her latest feature film is Songbook (2024).

Dan Gerstein is the CEO of Gotham Ghostwriters. A nationally recognized political writer, communications strategist, and idea man, Dan has been writing professionally for himself and others for more than 30 years.

Tarleton Gillespie is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England.

Nils Gilman is a historian and the Associate Chancellor at UC Berkeley.

Cristiana Giordano is an associate professor of anthropology at UC Davis.

Brooklyne Gipson is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in the School of Communication and Information. She is an internet studies scholar whose work explores the relationship between misogynoir and disinformation online.

Samuel Giraut is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at the University of Basel and an African Centre for Cities research fellow. His thesis explores the intersection of migration and platform labor in Cape Town.

Jesse Goldhammer is a political scientist and the Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Information.

Ashley Gorham is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Christelle Gramaglia is a researcher in sociology at the Department of Waters at the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture in France.

Kevin Grove is Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.

Claudio Guarnieri, a.k.a. nex, is a security researcher and human rights activist. He is a technologist at Amnesty International, a researcher with the Citizen Lab, and the co-founder of Security Without Borders.

Prince Guma is an Honorary Research Fellow at the British Institute in Eastern Africa, where he formerly served as Assistant Country Director. His research focuses on geographies of the digital, built environments, and everyday lifeworlds.

Gökçe Günel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. She is the author of Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi (Duke University Press, 2019) and Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations (Duke University Press, 2026).

Anant Gupta is the political correspondent at Scroll, an Indian digital news publication founded in 2014.

Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is an Associate Professor at ArtCenter College of Design, a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge Visual Culture, and a Fellow at the Vera List Center. She is the author of The Institute for Other Intelligences (X Artists’ Books, 2022).

Orit Halpern is the author of The Smartness Mandate (MIT 2023) and Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason Since 1945 (Duke University Press, 2015).  She is currently working on two projects: a history of automating decision making and changing ideas of freedom, and a history of experimentation at planetary scales.

Lisa Yin Han is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. She is the author of Deepwater Alchemy: Extractive Mediation and the Taming of the Seafloor (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).

Courtney Handman is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her most recent book is Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea (University of California Press, 2025).

Rebecca Hardin is Professor of Sustainable Development and Director of the Gala learning platform at the Pulte Institute at the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. Her work began with the environmental anthropology of equatorial Africa and now includes the educational anthropology of technologies as they relate to experiential learning.

Penny Harvey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Kim Hendrickx is an anthropologist at the Spiral Research Centre at the University of Liège, Belgium, and he is currently finalizing a PhD about food-related health claims.

Fabienne Hess is an artist based in London. Documentation of the exhibition Hits and Misses and other projects can be seen on her website.

Chris Hesselbein is Assistant Professor in Science and Technology Studies at the Politecnico di Milano. His research examines how knowledge and technology are co-constructed with conceptions of social order, particularly in terms of embodiment, materiality, and aesthetics.

Ruben Hickman is a Production Designer at Paramount Animation.

Matthew Hockenberry is a media historian and technologist whose work focuses on media structure and materiality.

Douglas R. Holmes is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University.

Sophie Houdart is an anthropologist and research professor at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.

Cymene Howe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.

Rebeca Ibáñez Martín is a tenured scientist at the Ethnology and Anthropology Department of the Meertens Institute at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), and a researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

Lilly Irani is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego.

Boris Jardine is a researcher at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Mikko Jauho is a Senior Researcher at the National Consumer Research Centre Finland.

Roma Jhaveri served as Product Manager and then Director of Product Management at Kiva.org, the world's first global online lending platform, from 2007-2012.

Renee Yu Jin is a PhD candidate in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Her research lies at the intersection of the anthropology of art, labor studies, modern and contemporary art, and creative technologies. Jin maintains an active artistic practice across sculpture, drawing, installation, and video.

Fleur Johns is Professor of International Law, Dean, and Head of School at the University of Sydney Law School. Her most recent books are Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2026, forthcoming, co-edited with Gavin Sullivan and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche) and #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Christopher F. Jones is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and author of Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (2014).

Matthew L. Jones teaches history of science and technology at Columbia.

Jamie L. Jones is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her most recent book is Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

Vincent Joos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Florida state University.

Christopher Josiffe is a librarian, author and artist based in London. A frequent contributor to Fortean Times and other journals, his first book, Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose (Strange Attractor Press, 2017), won the Folklore Society’s Katherine Briggs Award for 2018.

Stephanie C. Kane is Professor of International Studies at Indiana University.

Kriti Kapila is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Law at King’s College London. She is the author of Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India (HAU Books, 2022).

Judith Kaplan is currently pursuing her interests in the history of the human and historical sciences, linguistics in particular, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Frédéric Keck is director of research at the CNRS and a member of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale based at the Collège de France in Paris.

ANN H. KELLY is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her book Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health, co-authored with Javier Lezaun, is forthcoming from Duke University Press, November 2026.

Christopher M. Kelty is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Two Bits (Duke University Press, 2008) and The Participant (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His current work is the Labyrinth Project (https://labyrinth.garden),  a multi-disciplinary collaborative research inquiry into conflict and controversy in urban ecologies in Los Angeles.

Sarah Rebecca Kessler is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Out of Sync: Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok (Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2026). She is currently at work on a second monograph about contemporary television viewing, Generation Binge (Columbia University Press).

Laleh Khalili is the Al Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies at Exeter and the author or editor of seven books including Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020) and the forthcoming Extractive Capitalism (Profile Books).

Meena Khandelwal is a professor in anthropology and gender studies at the University of Iowa. She is writing a book about the cookstove-fuelwood-gender nexus in India which calls for cooperation between science and humanities to better understand complex real world problems.

Nicholas B. King is an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, where he is holds appointments in the Institute for Health and Social Policy, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, and Department of Social Studies of Medicine.

Tamara Kneese directs the Climate, Technology, and Justice program at Data & Society Research Institute. She is the author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond (Yale University Press, 2023), coeditor of The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century (University of New Mexico Press, 2022), and coauthor of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry (Common Notions, 2025).

Hannah Knox is Lecturer in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London.

Rijul Kochhar is a historian of science and an anthropologist. He teaches at Harvard University.

Nils Kohn teaches and coordinates courses within the Medical Neuroscience Department of the Radboud University Medical Center and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour. He studies affective processing, its influences on cognitive and mnemonic processes, and its interrelation with motivational aspects.

Steffen Köhn is a filmmaker, video artist and associate professor of visual and multimodal anthropology at Aarhus University. He is the author of Island in the Net: Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba (Princeton University Press, 2026).

Daniel Kreiss is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Journalism and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Shiloh Krupar is Professor of Culture and Politics in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her most recent book is Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers (University of Minnesota Press, 2023).

Guillaume Lachenal is Associate Professor in History of Science at the Université Paris Diderot studying the history and anthropology of biomedicine in Africa.

Whitney Laemmli is an Mellon/ACLS Fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kayley Lain spent time observing a community in India while earning her master's degree in engineering from the University of Iowa in 2017, focusing on energy systems and sustainability.

Andrew Lakoff was Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Southern California, where he also directed the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life. His most recent book is Planning for the Wrong Pandemic (Polity, 2024).

Hannah Landecker is the Director of the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, respected advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation.

Frédéric Le Marcis is professor of social anthropologist at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Emily Lee is a visual artist and writer based in Texas.

Eric Leleu is an independent documentary photographer based in Northern France.

Rebecca Lemov is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Sonia Levy is an artist-filmmaker of Amazigh Moroccan and Polish background whose research-led practice explores submerged ecologies and the entanglements of power, knowledge, and environmental transformation through site-specific and interdisciplinary work.

Joshua Lewis is a geographer and urban ecologist at Tulane University in New Orleans.  

Javier Lezaun is an Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at University of Oxford. His book Vectors: An Anatomy of Mosquito Work, coauthored with Ann H. Kelly, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

Brian Lindseth is a graduate student in Sociology and Science Studies at UCSD.

Julie Livingston is the Julius Silver Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her most recent book, coauthored with Andrew Ross, is Cars and Jails: Freedom Dreams, Debt, and Carcerality (OR Books, 2022).

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is Assistant Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and the Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Border Tunnels (University of Minnesota Press, 2023).

Austin Lord is a PhD Student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Cornell University, interested in questions of disaster, energy, infrastructure, and uncertainty in Nepal.

Theresa MacPhail is a medical anthropologist and an Assistant Professor of Science & Technology Studies, medical anthropology, and global health at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Vanessa Manceron is a researcher at the Research Center for Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.

George E. Marcus is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.

Noortje Marres is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University, UK.

Shannon Mattern is the Director of Creative Research at the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Her research and teaching focus on media architectures, information infrastructures, and urban technologies. Her most recent books are A City is Not a Computer (Princeton University Press, 2021) and Code and Clay, Dirt and Data: 5000 Years of Urban Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

Via Matthews is a recent graduate of Anthropology at Princeton University. Her research focused predominantly on how economic implications of the video game industry affected the creative processes and outcomes of game developers. In addition, she explored further research interests including virtual communities, digital media forms and trends, along with interactive design and biometric technology.

Elizabeth L. McCormick is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her most recent book is Inside OUT: Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era (Routledge, 2024).

Liz McFall is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University in the U.K.  

Josh McIlvain is a diagnostic medical physicist and a member of Public Lab, a community and non-profit democratizing science to address environmental issues that affect people.

Megan McLaughlin is a member of Public Lab, a community and non-profit democratizing science to address environmental issues that affect people.

Ella McPherson is Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Technology at the University of Cambridge. She has written extensively on human rights in the digital age and is currently working on a project about everyday resistance to Big Tech.

Caroline Melly is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Smith College and author of Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City (University of Chicago, 2017). 

Townsend Middleton is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter (University of California Press, 2024).

James Christopher Mizes is a doctoral candidate in the Department of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

Baptiste Monsaingeon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Alexandre Koyré Center, whose research focuses on synthetic polymers as disposable materials, especially around the protocol of reduction of plastic bags on a European scale.

Amy Moran-Thomas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Her ethnographic research focuses on how health technologies and ecologies are designed and come to be materially embodied—often inequitably—by people in their ordinary lives. She is the author of Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic (University of California Press, 2019).

Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University. He's the author of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty with Rachel Schneider.

Ibrahim Msuya is a Research Scientist at Ifakara Health Institute, University of Dar es Salaam. He is an urban analyst and designer specializing in investigating the built environment’s contextual impact on health outcomes.

Sarah Muir is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York (City College and the Graduate Center). She is the author of Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Mary Murrell is currently an honorary fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Alex Nading is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. His most recent book is The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua (Duke University Press, 2025).

Alondra Nelson is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her research explores emerging scientific and technological phenomena, their intersections with rights, and their implications for justice and democracy. She is the author of The Social Life of DNA (Beacon Press, 2016) and co-author of Auditing AI (MIT Press, 2026).

Christopher T. Nelson is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book is When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Contemporary Okinawa (Duke University Press, 2025).

Amelyn Ng is an architect, cartoonist, and Assistant Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her most recent work on architecture and media includes “Storing Architecture in the Climate Breakdown,” Thresholds 54 (2026), and “Seeing Like a Doorbell,” Avery Review 75 (March 2026).

Amelyn Ng is an architect, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She is a co-founder of Friends Making Work, a design collective based in New York City. Working at the intersection of architecture and media studies, her research and creative practice contend with relationships between matter and representation, and seek alternate narratives to the status quo of building.

Vinh-Kim Nguyen is an HIV and Emergency physician and medical anthropologist.

Joel Ongwech is a photographer and creative urbanist based in Kampala, where he leads Yowa Innovations. He has produced Open Doors, African Mobilities, Radical Landscape, and Powering Namuwongo.

Sven Opitz is Professor of Political Sociology at Philipps Universität Marburg.

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.

Christopher Otter is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University.

Dr. Ben Outhwaite has been head of the Genizah Research Unit in Cambridge University Library since 2006.

Canay Özden-Schilling recently received her PhD from MIT with a dissertation on the exchange of electricity and neoliberalism in the United States.

Onur Ozgode is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Science in Human Culture Program and a sociologist whose work explores the emergence and governance of socio-economic and techno-political problems that exceed the limits of political (neo-)liberalism.

Sharad Pandian is a researcher in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore.

Britt Paris is an associate professor at Rutgers in the School of Communication and Information. Her book, Radical Infrastructures: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up (University of California Press), comes out in January 2026.

Emma Park is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and in the program of Science, Technology & Society at the University of Michigan.

Emma Pask is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department at Aarhus University.

Raj Patel is a Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affair at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent book is Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (with Rupa Marya) (Penguin, 2022).

Heather Paxson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America.

Bart Penders (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Biomedicine and Society at Maastricht University’s School of Public Health and Primary Care, and a Network Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

Adriana Petryna is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Amira Pettus is a digital product designer and strategist at ThoughtWorks, a global technology consultancy.

Branwyn Poleykett is a postdoctoral research associate on the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

Andrea Pollio is Assistant Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Polytechnic of Turin. He is the author of Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-Capital (University of California Press, 2026).

Martha Poon is Adjunct Research Affiliate for the Committee on Global Thought and an affiliate of the Department of Anthropology at the New School.

Michael Powell has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Rice University, and currently works in Los Angeles at the strategy and design firm Shook Kelley, a strategy and design firm.

Julien Prévieux is a French artist and laureate of the 2014 Marcel Duchamp Prize.

Joanna Radin is an Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History at Yale University.

Simon Rakei is a joint PhD student in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. He is a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Research Fellow, and Michigan Law School Fellow.

Ava Rawson is a DPhil student at the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society at the University of Oxford.

Jenny Reardon is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at UCSC, and is the author of Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics.

Peter Redfield is Professor of Anthropology and History and Erburu Chair in Ethics, Globalization and Development at the University of Southern California. His research concentrates on circulations of science, technology, and medicine in colonial and postcolonial contexts. He most recent book is Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders (University of California Press 2013).

Keren Reichler is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. Her research focuses on agricultural technologies and climate change in California and Argentina. 

David Reubi is a Wellcome Trust Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London, where he is currently working on a manuscript about the biopolitics of the African smoking epidemic.

Renée Ridgway is presently a PhD candidate at Copenhagen Business School (MPP) and a research affiliate with the Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL), Leuphana University, Lüneburg.

Alex Rivera makes films about globalization, migration, and technology. His award-winning features include Sleep Dealer (2008) and The Infiltrators (2019). He is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow and Sundance Fellow, and he was a Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University.

Janell Rothenberg received her PhD in anthropology from UCLA and works as an independent design anthropologist and strategist.

Rafico Ruiz is director of research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He pursues research on settler infrastructure building and design in the circumpolar world, with adjacent interests in post-global warming ice as a material form of political economic and cultural communication. He is the author of Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation and the Promise of Extraction (Duke University Press, 2021).

Molly Sauter is a PhD student at McGill University in Art History and Communication Studies, and the author of The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, published by Bloomsbury in 2014.

Wim J.J.M. Scheenen serves as Educational Project Manager for the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour. He is also the Education Project Manager for the EU-funded NuerotechEU Consortium, where he has implemented international collaboration on media-rich interactive learning tools that link with place-based or lab-based learning.

David Schleifer researches and writes about food, healthcare, technology, education and public opinion. He is the Director of Research at at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and engagement organization.

Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Anke Schwittay is the Head of International Development at the University of Sussex. She is the author of New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance.

Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford.

Llerena G. Searle is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester. She is the author of Landscapes of Accumulation: Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India (University of Chicago Press, 2016).

Nick Seaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University and also teaches in the Science, Technology, and Society program.

Emma Shaw Crane is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is a scholar of war, race, and environment in the Americas.

Chloe Silverman is an Associate Professor in the Department Politics at Drexel University and a member of the Science, Technology and Society Program.

Benjamin Sims is a sociologist with the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory with broad interests in qualitative and quantitative social science.

Nestor Siré is a Cuban multimedia artist who reflects on the relationship between technology and society through transdisciplinary research. He is currently an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.

Jessica Quinn Slattery is an anthropologist and recent graduate of the University of California, Irvine. She teaches at the City College of New York and is writing a book about Próspera and Honduras.

Rebecca Slayton is Assistant Professor jointly in the Science & Technology Studies Department and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University.

Ivan V. Small is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Rodolfo Sousa is a visual artist specializing in experimental printmaking. He explores the erosion, deformation, theft, and interruption of images, investigating their afterlife as they drift through archives, newspapers, memes, hyperlinks, rumors, and malice.

Nicole Starosielski is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Marilyn Strathern is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge, and former Mistress of Girton College.

Alice Street is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

Wendy Sung is an Assistant Professor of race, visuality, and digital culture in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Yojak Tamang is a PhD student at Presidency University and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Moyna College in Medinipur, West Bengal.

Ute Tellmann is Senior Lecturer for Sociology at the University of Hamburg.

Tatiana Thieme is an urban ethnographer and Lecturer based in the Department of Geography at University College London.

Grahame Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics & International Studies at the Open University

Sara Tocchetti is an ex-biologist not yet turned into a science and technology scholar. She is an associate researcher at STSLab, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Didier Tornyis a senior researcher in sociology, whose work examines private and public normative action relating to health.

Robert Tynes is a political scientist and a member of the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College.

The UA Artists Collective includes Miriam Austin, Matthew Drage, Paul Gwilliam, Anna Hughes, Boris Jardine, Emily Jones and Rumi Josephs. Their work is featured in the issue 18 of Art Licks.

Rebecca Uliasz researches and writes on media theory, digital culture, and the history and philosophy of technology. She is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanity & Technology at Case Western Reserve University.

Gabriela Valdivia is in the department of geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she researches the political ecology of oil and teaches courses on natural resource governance in Latin America.

SONJA VAN WICHELEN is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Sydney. Her recent books include Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology (Rutgers University Press, 2019) and, with Marc de Leeuw, Biolegality: A Critical Introduction (Springer, 2024).

Bharat Jayram Venkat is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles with a joint appointment spanning the Institute for Society and Genetics, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of History. His most recent book is At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, 2021).

Maria Vidart-Delgado is a cultural anthropologist.

Antina von Schnitzler is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Anthropology.

Ed Waisanen is the Lead Product and Instructional Designer for Gala at the Pulte Institute in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He oversees the ongoing development of Gala, and advises its communities of users and makers of open educational resources on instructional design, interactive data tools, and multimedia production and curation.

Steven Weber is a Professor at the School of Information and Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.

Sarah Myers West is a PhD Candidate and the Wallis Annenberg Graduate Research Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Jerome Whitington is an anthropologist specializing in climate change who holds a joint appointment as Senior Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Teaching Fellow at Tembusu College.

Alan Wiig is an Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Hannah Wohl is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. She explores decision-making, valuation, and creativity in cultural fields, from the contemporary art market to the porn industry.

May Ee Wong is Assistant Professor of Urban and Mobile Media at Utrecht University. Her research lies at the intersections of architectural/urban history and theory, Science and Technology Studies, environmental media, digital culture and visual aesthetics.

David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies at Queen’s University, Ontario.

Stacy E. Wood is the Director of Research and Programs at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. Her research focuses on the intersections between technology, belief, and evidence.

Sara Wylie is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University with a joint appointment in Sociology and Anthropology, and Health Sciences as part of Northeastern’s Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute.

Emily Yates-Doerr is a postdoc at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam.

Jerry C. Zee is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. He is the author of Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System (University of California Press, 2022).

Kim Zetter is an award-winning, senior staff reporter at Wired covering cybercrime, privacy, and security.

Amy Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China (Stanford University Press, 2024).

Malte Ziewitz is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. His work explores what happens when people use technologies to solve a social problem—and what this means for the rest of us.