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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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).

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).

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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).

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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).

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.

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).

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.

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).

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

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

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).

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

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

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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).

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

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. 

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).

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.

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).

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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). 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maria Vidart-Delgado is a cultural anthropologist.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Ruben Hickman is a Production Designer at Paramount Animation.

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

Emmanuelle Fillion is a health and disability sociologist.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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).

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Susanne Freidberg is Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Ann H. Kelly is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her book Vectors: An Anatomy of Mosquito Work, coauthored with Javier Lezaun, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Philip Bougen, University of New Mexico

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

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

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).

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.

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

Cymene Howe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.

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

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

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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). In 2026, she will publish two books: Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations (Duke University Press) and Patchwork Ethnography: A Methodological Guide (University of Chicago Press).

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

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

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

Douglas R. Holmes is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton 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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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.