LIMN

Advisory Comittee

Limn’s projects are shepherded by a group of committed volunteers who help advise, revise and devise new and ongoing projects.

Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Stephen J. Collier

Stephen J. Collier is Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School.

Deborah Cowen is Associate Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto.

Christopher M. Kelty

Christopher M. Kelty is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Andrew Lakoff is Professor of Sociology and Communication at the University of Southern California.

Shannon Mattern

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.

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)

Peter Redfield is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Researchers & Authors

We are lucky to claim an outstanding network of contributing researchers who make Limn the heady place it is.

Shannon Mattern

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 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

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

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 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.

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