Raj Patel
Raj Patel is a Research Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affair at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press, 2018)
Laleh Khalili
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Panita Chatikavanij is a Ph.D. candidate of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Keren Reichler
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
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
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
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
Rijul Kochhar is a historian of science and an anthropologist. He teaches at Harvard University.
Dredge Research Collaborative
The Dredge Research Collaborative is Sean Burkholder, Brian Davis, Rob Holmes, Justine Holzman, Tim Maly, Brett Milligan, and Gena Wirth
Orit Halpern
Orit Halpern is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University.
Janell Rothenberg
Janell Rothenberg received her PhD in anthropology from UCLA and works as an independent design anthropologist and strategist.
Ivan Small
Ivan V. Small is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Central Connecticut State University.
Joshua Lewis
Joshua Lewis is a geographer and urban ecologist at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Jatin Dua
Jatin Dua is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a member of the Chokepoints Collective.
Gabriela Valdivia
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
Carwil Bjork-James is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.
Caroline Melly
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
Michael Degani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Jamie Cross
Jamie Cross is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange and Impact), College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh
Vincent Joos
Vincent Joos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Florida state University.
Eric Leleu
Eric Leleu is an independent documentary photographer based in Northern France.
Cristiana Giordano
Cristiana Giordano is an associate professor of anthropology at UC Davis.
Christopher F. Jones
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
Christian Borch is Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Theory at the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
Aldo Chircop
Aldo Chircop is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Maritime Law and Policy at Dalhousie University
Stephanie C. Kane
Stephanie C. Kane is Professor of International Studies at Indiana University.
Claudio Aporta
Claudio Aporta is Associate Professor and Director of Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University.
Maria Vidart-Delgado
Maria Vidart-Delgado is a cultural anthropologist.
Daniel Kreiss
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
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
Tarleton Gillespie is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England.
Lina Dib
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
Noortje Marres is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University, UK.
Chris Csikszentmihályi
Chris Csíkszentmihályi is a scholar and technologist whose work draws from the humanities, design, and art.
Ruben Hickman
Ruben Hickman is a Production Designer at Paramount Animation.
J.R. Baldwin
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
Amira Pettus is a digital product designer and strategist at ThoughtWorks, a global technology consultancy.
Alain Desrosières
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
Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.
Christelle Gramaglia
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
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
Vanessa Manceron is a researcher at the Research Center for Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.
Didier Torny
Didier Tornyis a senior researcher in sociology, whose work examines private and public normative action relating to health.
Emmanuelle Fillion
Emmanuelle Fillion is a health and disability sociologist.
Sara Wylie
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
Megan McLaughlin is a member of Public Lab, a community and non-profit democratizing science to address environmental issues that affect people.
Josh McIlvain
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
Hannah Landecker is the Director of the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jerome Whitington
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
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
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
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
Adriana Petryna is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nicole Starosielski
Nicole Starosielski is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Townsend Middleton
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
Jason Cons is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Sophie Houdart
Sophie Houdart is an anthropologist and research professor at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.
Christopher Otter
Christopher Otter is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University.
Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier
Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier is research professor at Sciences Po and works at the Centre de sociologie des organisations in Paris.
Franck Cochoy
Franck Cochoy is Professor of sociology at the University of Toulouse, a member of the CERTOP-CNRS, France.
Mikko Jauho
Mikko Jauho is a Senior Researcher at the National Consumer Research Centre Finland.
Heather Paxson
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
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
Emily Yates-Doerr is a postdoc at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam.
Susanne Freidberg
Susanne Freidberg is Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College.
Alison Fairbrother
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
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
Javier Lezaun is the Deputy Director at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford.
Steven Flipse
Steven Flipse (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Science Communication at the Delft University of Technology.
Bart Penders
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
Xaq Frohlich is an Assistant Professor of History of Technology in the Department of History at Auburn University.
Michael Powell
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
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
Matthew Hockenberry is a media historian and technologist whose work focuses on media structure and materiality.
Theresa MacPhail
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
Lyle Fearnley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Liz McFall
Liz McFall is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University in the U.K.
Frédéric Keck
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
Natasha Dow Schüll is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Ignacio Farías
Ignacio Farías is Assistant Professor of Participatory Technology Design in the Department of Architecture at Technische Universität, München.
George E. Marcus
George E. Marcus is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
Ann H. Kelly
Ann H. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Global Health and Deputy Director of the MSc in Global Health & Social Justice at King's College London.
Anke Schwittay
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
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
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
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
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
Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford.
Tatiana Thieme
Tatiana Thieme is an urban ethnographer and Lecturer based in the Department of Geography at University College London.
Kayley Lain
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
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
Xhulio Binjaku is a Researcher at the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism
Brenda Chalfin
Brenda Chalfin is the Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida
Amy Moran-Thomas
Amy Moran-Thomas is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MIT, interested in questions of environmental change and ethnographic approaches to science, technology, and medicine.
Robert J. Foster
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
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
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
Alice Street is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.
Joanna Radin
Joanna Radin is an Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History at Yale University.
Peter Redfield
Peter Redfield is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Nicholas B. King
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
Vinh-Kim Nguyen is an HIV and Emergency physician and medical anthropologist.
Frédéric Le Marcis
Frédéric Le Marcis is professor of social anthropologist at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
Guillaume Lachenal
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alex Nading is a medical and environmental anthropologist who studies the entanglement of human lives with the lives of nonhumans, particularly dengue mosquitoes, dengue viruses and microbiota.
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
Elizabeth Dunn is an Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Department of International Studies (joint appointment), Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
Ben Outhwaite
Dr. Ben Outhwaite has been head of the Genizah Research Unit in Cambridge University Library since 2006.
Judith Kaplan
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.
Balázs Bodó
Bodó Balázs, PhD, is an economist and piracy researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.
UA Artists Collective
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
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
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
Boris Jardine is a researcher at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Reuben Binns
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.
Geof Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor of Informatics at University of California, Irvine and is working on the nature of the Archive.
Julien Prévieux
Julien Prévieux is a French artist and laureate of the 2014 Marcel Duchamp Prize.
Lawrence Cohen
Lawrence Cohen is the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Mary Murrell
Mary Murrell is currently an honorary fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Rebecca Lemov
Rebecca Lemov is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
Philip Bougen
Philip Bougen, University of New Mexico
Myriam Dunn Cavelty
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
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
Deborah Cowen is Associate Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto.
Catherine Fennell
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
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
Cymene Howe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.
Canay Özden-Schilling
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
Andrew Barry is Chair of Human Geography at University College London.
Kevin Grove
Kevin Grove is Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.
Savannah Cox
Savannah Cox is a writer and editor in New York City.
Nikhil Anand
Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Andreas Folkers
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
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
Kevin P. Donovan is a doctoral candidate in the programs in Anthropology & History and Science, Technology & Society at the University of Michigan.
Emma Park
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
Gökçe Günel is an 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).
Hannah Knox
Hannah Knox is Lecturer in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London.
Penny Harvey
Penny Harvey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.
Andrea Ballestero
Andrea Ballestero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.
Alan Wiig
Alan Wiig is an Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Brian Lindseth
Brian Lindseth is a graduate student in Sociology and Science Studies at UCSD.
Benjamin Sims
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
Grahame Thompson is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics & International Studies at the Open University
Onur Ozgöde
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
Jonathan Bach is Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at The New School in New York.
Antina von Schnitzler
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
Kim Zetter is an award-winning, senior staff reporter at Wired covering cybercrime, privacy, and security.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is a a staff writer at Motherboard, where he covers hacking, information security, and digital rights.
Steven Weber
Steven Weber is a Professor at the School of Information and Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.
Jesse Goldhammer
Jesse Goldhammer is a political scientist and the Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Information.
Nils Gilman
Nils Gilman is a historian and the Associate Chancellor at UC Berkeley.
Rebecca Slayton
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
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
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
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
Robert Tynes is a political scientist and a member of the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College.
Paula Bialski
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
Ashley Gorham is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sara Tocchetti
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
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
Philip Di Salvo is a researcher and a journalist. Currently, he is a doctoral student at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland).
Naomi Colvin
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
Michael Carter is a doctoral research student in the Department of Geography, also at Queen’s University.
David Murakami Wood
David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies at Queen’s University, Ontario.
Götz Bachmann
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 (“nex”) Guarnieri
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
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger.
Joan Donovan
Joan Donovan is Media Manipulation Research Lead at Data and Society in New York.
Lilly Irani
Lilly Irani is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego.
Emmanuel Didier
Emmanuel Didier is a permanent researcher at EHESS – CNRS, Groupe de sociologie politique et morale (GSPM), in Paris.
Renée Ridgway
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
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
Tor Ekeland is many things to many people, but mostly a lawyer.
Alek Felstiner
Alek Felstiner is an employment lawyer at Levy Ratner, P.C., a firm at the forefront of the workers' rights movement.
Andrew Lakoff
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
Matthew L. Jones teaches history of science and technology at Columbia.
Douglas R. Holmes
Douglas R. Holmes is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University.
Mustafa Al-Bassam
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
Finn Brunton is an assistant professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.
Sven Opitz
Sven Opitz is Professor of Political Sociology at Philipps Universität Marburg.
Ute Tellmann
Ute Tellmann is Senior Lecturer for Sociology at the University of Hamburg.
Soe Lin Aung
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
E. Gabriella Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University.
Stephen J. Collier
Stephen J. Collier is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
James Christopher Mizes
James Christopher Mizes is a doctoral candidate in the Department of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Christopher M. Kelty
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 (labyrinth.garden), a multi-disciplinary collaborative research inquiry into conflict and controversy in urban ecologies in Los Angeles.