Mark Paterson

Mark Paterson is a researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, with an international reputation for work on the body, the senses, technology, and space. He collaborates with the Embodied Geographies research group in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.

• Research focuses on intersections between bodies, landscapes, and materialities in human interactions with the world.
• Explores interdisciplinary themes like urban health, urban stress, creativity, vulnerability, and biosocial methods.
• Planned IAS Workshop: 'Body 2.0. Embodied processes and technologies in the flows of urban capitalism' covering embodied technologies, biopolitics, and biosocial urban emotions.