Advisory Committee
Limn’s projects are shepherded by a group of committed volunteers who help advise, revise and devise new and ongoing projects.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
Researchers & Authors
We are lucky to claim an outstanding network of contributing researchers who make Limn the heady place it is.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
Ava Rawson is a DPhil student at the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society at the University of Oxford.
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.
Aishani Aatresh is a PhD student in Public Policy and a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School.
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.
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.
Marc Aidinoff is Assistant Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Jamie Cross is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Glasgow.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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).
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).
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.
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).
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.
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).
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).
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).
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).
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.