March for Science, Washington 2017

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Director

Director

Knowledge Systems and Collective Life

Research Support

Departmental Assistant

Departmental Research Coordinator

Publications Manager

Digital Humanities Software Developer

Departmental Assistant

Publications Manager

Researchers

Postdoctoral Scholar

The Meaning of History in a Fated World

Predoctoral Scholar

Against Reliability: On the Use of Technical Tools for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Clinical Trials

Research Scholar

Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action

Digital Humanities Scholar

Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2026 - Apr 2026)

Entropy and the Order of Life

Research Scholar

Popularization of Science and Technology in Postwar Italy

Research Scholar

A Sense for Statistics in Modern India: Quantifying Communal Identities and Differences

Postdoctoral Scholar

Ogallala Inc.: Race, Work, and the Making of America’s Red Meat Capital

Postdoctoral Scholar

Archival Dispossessions: Archives, Empire, and the Epistemological Limits of the Nation-State

Postdoctoral Scholar

Dual-Use Knowledge: A Critical History of the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex

Research Scholar

On Misogyny: Feminism, Fetuses, Femicides

Predoctoral Fellow (Jan 2026 - Jun 2026)

Landscapes of Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Mining, and Placemaking in Eastern Nigeria

Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Mar 2025 - Feb 2026)

Of Monkeys and Primatologies: An Anthropological Study of the Encounters Between Practices and Regimes of Knowledge

Research Scholar

Communities of Reproductive Knowledge

Research Scholar

From the Cell to the Microbiome: Agency, Reactivity, and Incorporation in the History of Biomedicine

Postdoctoral Scholar

Toxic Archives: Chemical Memories and Collective Life in El Ejido, 1980-2025

Postdoctoral Scholar

Beings in Time: Towards a Nonhuman Oral History of Elephant Voices

Postdoctoral Scholar

Intimate Codes: Feminist Histories and Futures of Female Technologies

Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2025 - Feb 2026)

On the (Post)-Colonial Margins: French Nuclear Explosions in Polynesia and their Measurements from the Chilean Coast during the 1960s

Max Planck India Mobility Fellow (Jan 2025 - Dec 2027)

An Oral History of Indian Conservation Biology

Research Scholar

Ghostmeals

Research Scholar

The History of Energy Conservation as Agent of Energy Transition

Principal Investigator

Research Group: Data, Media, Mind

Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct 2025 - Mar 2026)

Mapping Ecological Crises in Selected Samburu of Kenya’s Ritual Chants: Grass as an Index of Propitiousness