Donna J. Haraway is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California,Santa Cruz,and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. She has also contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory,and is a leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism,emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes,and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices,rethinking sources of ethics.
Ecological anthropology is a sub-field of anthropology and is defined as the "study of cultural adaptations to environments". The sub-field is also defined as,"the study of relationships between a population of humans and their biophysical environment". The focus of its research concerns "how cultural beliefs and practices helped human populations adapt to their environments,and how people used elements of their culture to maintain their ecosystems". Ecological anthropology developed from the approach of cultural ecology,and it provided a conceptual framework more suitable for scientific inquiry than the cultural ecology approach. Research pursued under this approach aims to study a wide range of human responses to environmental problems.
Ethnoecology is the scientific study of how different groups of people living in different locations understand the ecosystems around them,and their relationships with surrounding environments.
Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science,Department of History,and by courtesy the d-school,Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. An international authority on the theory,practice,and history of gender and intersectionality in science,technology,and medicine,she is the founding Director of Gendered Innovations in Science,Medicine,Engineering,and Environment. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Schiebinger received honorary doctorates from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel,Belgium (2013),from the Faculty of Science,Lund University,Sweden (2017),and from Universitat de València,Spain (2018). She was the first woman in the field of History to win the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in 1999.
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry,physics,neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement,and her work primarily explores the interface between society,the environment and technology. She has alternatively described her work as "X Design" and herself as a "thingker",a combination of thing-maker and thinker. In 2018,she was Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College,and is currently an associate professor at New York University in the Visual Art Department,and has affiliated faculty appointments in the school's Computer Science and Environmental Studies.
Georgina Emma Mary Born,is a British academic,anthropologist,musicologist and musician. As a musician she is known as Georgie Born and for her work in Henry Cow and with Lindsay Cooper.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Native American botanist,author,an American Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology;and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
Sheila Sen Jasanoff is an Indian American academic and significant contributor to the field of Science and Technology Studies. In 2021 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Her research has been recognized with many awards,including the 2022 Holberg Prize "for her groundbreaking research in science and technology studies."
Genevieve Bell is an Australian cultural anthropologist,best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice research and technological development,and for being an industry pioneer of the user experience field. Bell was the inaugural director of the Autonomy,Agency and Assurance Innovation Institute (3Ai),which was co-founded by the Australian National University (ANU) and CSIRO’s Data61,and a Distinguished Professor of the ANU College of Engineering,Computing and Cybernetics. In 2021,she became the inaugural Director of the new ANU School of Cybernetics. She also holds the university's Florence Violet McKenzie Chair,and is the first SRI International Engelbart Distinguished Fellow. Bell is also a Senior Fellow and Vice President at Intel. She is widely published,and holds 13 patents.
Layla AbdelRahim is a comparatist anthropologist and anarchoprimitivist author,whose works on narratives of civilization and wilderness have contributed to the fields of anthropology,literary and cultural studies,comparative literature,philosophy,animal studies,ecophilosophy,sociology,anarcho-primitivist thought,anarchism,epistemology,and critique of civilization,technology,and education. She attributes the collapse in the diversity of bio-systems and environmental degradation to monoculturalism and the civilized ontology that explains existence in terms of anthropocentric utilitarian functions.
Margaret Lock is a distinguished Canadian medical anthropologist,known for her publications in connection with an anthropology of the body and embodiment,comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge and practice,and the global impact of emerging biomedical technologies.
Mary Margaret Clark (1925–2003) was an American medical anthropologist who is credited with founding the sub-discipline of medical anthropology.
Michelle Murphy is a Canadian academic. She is a Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit.
Robbie Davis-Floyd is an American cultural,medical,and reproductive anthropologist,researcher,author,and international speaker primarily known for her research on childbirth,midwifery,and obstetrics. She chose to study women's birth experiences due to her own birth experiences and espouses the viewpoint that midwives play an important role in safeguarding positive outcomes for women giving birth. Beginning in 1983,she has given over 1000 presentations at universities and childbirth,midwifery,and obstetric conferences around the world.
Kim TallBear is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta,specializing in racial politics in science. Holding the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples,Technoscience and Environment,TallBear has published on DNA testing,race science and Indigenous identities,as well as on polyamory as a decolonization practice.
Diana Elizabeth Forsythe was a leading researcher in anthropology and a key figure in the field of science and technology studies. She is recognized for her significant anthropological studies of artificial intelligence and informatics,as well as for her studies on the roles of gender and power in computer engineering.
Maxine Kamari Clarke is a Canadian-American scholar with family roots in Jamaica. As of 2020,she is a distinguished professor at the Centre for Criminology &Sociolegal Studies and the Centre for Diaspora &Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. In 2021,she was named a Guggenheim Fellow.
Dr. Faye Venetia Harrison is an American anthropologist. Her research interests include political economy,power,diaspora,human rights,and the intersections of race,gender,and class. She is currently Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She formerly served as Joint Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at the University of Florida. Harrison received her BA in Anthropology in 1974 from Brown University,and her MA and PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1977 and 1982,respectively. She has conducted research in the US,UK,and Jamaica. Her scholarly interests have also taken her to Cuba,South Africa,and Japan.
Sherylyn H. Briller is an American cultural anthropologist,who specializes in medical anthropology and applied anthropology. Briller is a professor of anthropology,a faculty associate for the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC),an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program,and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor at Purdue University. Briller's research focuses on the cross-cultural study of health,aging,disability and end-of-life issues in Mongolia and various parts of the United States. She has completed work as a researcher and consultant for various public and private organizations,including the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and Cultural Keys,LLC.
Elizabeth Kujawinski is an American oceanographer who is Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,where she works as Program Director of the Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet. Her research considers analytical chemistry,chemical oceanography,microbiology and microbial ecology. She is interested in what controls the composition of organic materials in aquatic systems.
