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Laura A. Meek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan , specializing in Medical Anthropology , Decolonial Science and Technology Studies , and East African research . She holds affiliations with interdisciplinary networks like the UBC-O Science and Technology Studies Collective and co-directs the Storying Otherwise: Creative Ethnographic Writing Hub . PhD, MA in Anthropology (University of California, Davis) MA in Women’s Studies (George Washington University) Honors BA in Comparative Human Development (University of Chicago) Her research examines counterfeit pharmaceuticals and bodily epistemologies in Tanzania, framed through feminist , decolonial , and anti-racist lenses . She investigates leprosy elimination campaigns and fugitive science practices across Africa and Hong Kong, with recent work focusing on creative ethnographic prose and critical disability studies . Her publications span high-impact journals like Social Science & Medicine and Medical Anthropology Quarterly , addressing themes of radical uncertainty and world-making practices . Laura’s 15 most recent articles (2021–2025) analyze: pharmaceutical counterfeits in East Africa, the temporal politics of leprosy , anti-colonial global health , and creative writing as research . Her work bridges Indian Ocean connections and STS frameworks to critique neocolonial health governance. 2025 Collaborative Research Mobility Award 2024 Wenner-Gren Workshop Grant 2023 MAE–MAT Early Career Paper Award 2021 Society for Humanistic Anthropology Creative Ethnographic Prose Prize 2018 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant 2013 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant She supervises M.A. and Ph.D. students in UBC-O’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies programs, particularly in global health , African politics , and STS . Her professional service includes co-chairing the 2026 Cascadia Medical Anthropology Seminar and serving on the American Anthropological Association Nominations Committee .

• Pharmaceuticals and Counterfeit Drugs
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Medical Anthropology
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Professor Anna Marie Munster is a distinguished academic and artist at UNSW Art and Design (College of Fine Arts), where she has held a full-time tenured position since 2001. Her work bridges theoretical scholarship with creative practice, establishing her as a leading figure in digital media art and critical theory. University: University of New South Wales School: College of Fine Arts (UNSW Art and Design) Position: Professor Qualifications: PhD from UNSW (2002), BA (Class 1 Hons with University Medal) from University of Sydney (1984) Professor Munster's research explores the intersections of art, technology, and philosophy, with particular focus on statistical visuality, radical empiricism, the politics and aesthetics of machine learning, and more-than-human perception. Her work integrates process philosophy with contemporary media practices, examining how time, movement, and sonicity shape our experience of digital environments. She approaches these topics through both theoretical scholarship and creative practice, often collaborating with artist Michele Barker on multi-channel audiovisual installations. Her publications reveal a consistent trajectory exploring the relationship between embodiment and digital media, with recent work focusing on AI and machine learning in cultural contexts. Munster's creative output demonstrates sophisticated integration of technical innovation with philosophical inquiry, particularly in how her installations challenge conventional perceptions of time and space. ARC, UNSW Student Council Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision (2017) Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision (2015) Highly commended for Materializing New Media at Prix Ars Electronica (2008) Winner of National Digital Art Awards 'The Harries' (2006) University Press of New England Publishing Award (2005) Professor Munster has completed over 20 PhD and Masters supervisions at UNSW and been involved in another 10 secondary supervisions. She currently supervises five PhD candidates working on diverse topics including coding materialities, critical bio-textiles, schizophrenia and XR technologies, sound and resonance, and affective drawing. Her ARC-funded research projects demonstrate sustained commitment to interdisciplinary work, particularly at the intersection of art, science, and technology. Her creative practice with Michele Barker has resulted in numerous commissioned installations exploring perception, embodiment, and the relationship between humans and technology.

• software studies
• technologies and embodiment
• multichannel and interactive installation work
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Adrienne Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, specializing in Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity. Teaching since 2011, she also serves as Faculty Director of Arts + Public Life, a South Side Chicago initiative fostering neighborhood vibrancy through arts and community engagement. Her educational background includes: Ph.D., Princeton University, 2011 Professor Brown's research centers on Critical Race Studies, African American Literature, and Urban Studies, with a focus on the twentieth century. She examines how architecture and spatial environments shape racial perception, drawing on Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, Modernism, and Post-45 literature. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates cultural studies, visual culture, sound studies, and the history of property to analyze the racial sensorium in American cultural production. Her publications reveal a trajectory from skyscrapers ( The Black Skyscraper , 2017) to mass homeownership ( The Residential is Racial , 2024), investigating how built environments mediate race. Articles like "Appraisal Narratives" and "The Architecture of Racial Phenomena" dissect midcentury racial dynamics in urban spaces. She employs literary and bureaucratic archives to trace race's evolving definition, value, and perception, contributing to fields of American Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Architectural History. Awards: Modernist Studies Association’s 2018 First Book Prize for The Black Skyscraper While specific graduate students are unlisted, Brown has mentored through her courses and co-edited volumes. Her leadership in Arts + Public Life suggests significant community grants, though detailed funding sources are not specified in the provided text. As Faculty Director of Arts + Public Life, she spearheads a dynamic hub on Chicago's South Side that cultivates neighborhood vibrancy through arts programming, community partnerships, and public space activation.

• Critical Race Studies
• African American Literature
• Urban Studies
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Dr. Julian F. Henriques is a Senior Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a leading scholar in sound studies, cultural studies, and Caribbean research. With a PhD thesis (2008) on Reggae Sound System Crews, his work bridges music, technology, and embodiment through practice-based research. He has authored the book Sonic Bodies (2011) and co-edited Rhythm, Movement, Embodiment (2014). Currently, he explores fetal auditory environments through the Sonic Womb Exhibition (2026) and contributes to obstetric research on noise exposure. Research Interests: His scholarship focuses on the Jamaican sound system as a cultural technology, analyzing rhythm, affect, and sonic embodiment. He investigates intersections between popular culture, Caribbean diasporic practices, and the materiality of sound through theoretical frameworks like Afrofuturism (2015) and cosmopolitan theory (2020). Recent work combines computational acoustic modeling with ethnographic insights into prenatal soundscapes. Key Publications: Includes articles on fetal noise exposure (2025), Jamaican knowledge systems (2023), and rhythm analysis (2014). His edited works span Stuart Hall's legacy (2018) and sound studies companions. Collaborations with acoustic engineers (2025) demonstrate interdisciplinary reach. Collaborations: Works with institutions like University College London (2025), Tate Modern (2011), and the University of Munich (2014). Leads the Sonic Womb project with Pierre Gélat and Atau Tanaka.

• Sound Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Caribbean Studies
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Taien Ng-Chan is an Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and Director of the Sensorium. She holds a PhD from Concordia University and is the York Research Chair in Marginal & Emergent Media. Her work spans creative writing, digital media art, and interdisciplinary research, focusing on experimental mapping, extended reality (XR), and community-engaged projects. Education: BFA (University of British Columbia), MA, MFA, PhD (Concordia University). Research Interests: Extended Reality (XR) for marginalized storytelling Experimental cartography and spatial performance Community-building through digital media Intersection of art, technology, and public space Her projects include the Sari-Sari Xchange Project (collaborating with Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival) and the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit , exploring walking and sound-based cartography. Awards & Grants: City of Hamilton Arts Award for Media Arts (2019) AMPD Junior Faculty Teaching Award (2019) President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (2022) Funding from SSHRC, Canada Council for the Arts, and Ontario Arts Council Current Projects: Developing Marginal MediaWorks studio-lab for XR research, and an immersive media project blending karaoke, self-representation, and critical care themes. She also chairs the International Cartographic Association's Commission for Art and Cartography.

• Digital Media
• Extended Reality (XR)
• Experimental Mapping
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Laura Meek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, situated on Syilx Okanagan Nation Territory. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist whose research centers on counterfeit pharmaceuticals, bodily epistemologies, and the politics of healing in East Africa. Prior to joining UBC in 2022, she was a faculty member at the University of Hong Kong's Centre for the Humanities and Medicine. Dr. Meek received her PhD and MA in Anthropology from the University of California, Davis, an MA in Women's Studies from George Washington University, and a BA in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago. Her academic journey includes significant fieldwork experience in Tanzania and Hong Kong, with additional professional experience in the nonprofit sector focusing on prison abolition, women's empowerment, and environmental conservation. Her research interests span a wide range of topics including Africa, Black studies, bodily epistemologies, counterfeits, critical public health, cultural anthropology, decolonization, disease elimination, ethnography, feminist STS, fugitivity, global health, Hong Kong, leprosy, medical anthropology, ontology, pharmaceuticals, postcolonial technoscience, sensoriums, storytelling, Tanzania, temporality, and traditional medicine. Her work is characterized by a commitment to addressing structural inequalities in knowledge production and advancing liberatory social transformation. Dr. Meek's publications reveal consistent engagement with decolonial approaches to medical anthropology, pharmaceutical studies, and global health. Her recent work explores themes of fugitive science, bodily epistemologies, and the politics of healing across multiple contexts including Tanzania and Hong Kong. She has developed innovative frameworks for understanding counterfeit pharmaceuticals not merely as public health challenges but as sites of world-making innovation and radical uncertainty. 2021 MAE–MAT Early Career Paper Award 2021 Creative Ethnographic Prose Competition, 3rd Prize 2020 Early Career Scheme Grant & Award (Hong Kong) 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award 2017 Rudolf Virchow Graduate Student Award Dr. Meek supervises M.A. and Ph.D. students through UBC Okanagan's Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies programs in Global Studies, Power Conflict and Ideas, and Community Engagement, Social Change, Equity. She is also the Co-Director of Storying Otherwise: A Hub for Creative Ethnographic Writing and serves on the Steering Committee for the UBC-O Science and Technology Studies Collective. Her teaching encompasses cultural and medical anthropology, African & Africana studies, global health, embodiment, feminist/anti-racist/decolonial STS, global studies, and post/anticolonial theory.

• Cultural Anthropology
• Medical Anthropology
• Feminist Science and Technology Studies
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Claus-Marco Dieterich is a Lecturer and Managing Director of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW) at the Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Philipps University of Marburg. He specializes in historical and contemporary everyday cultures across Europe. Academic Role: Lecturer with focus on cultural anthropology Institution: Philipps University of Marburg Research Focus: Cultural rituals, media representation, and material culture His research spans topics including mass culture, ritual theory, and cultural materiality. Publications like "Terroir. Zur Aushandlung von Natur und Kultur im Weinbau" (2023) and "Postcards from Marburg" (2008) demonstrate his expertise in analyzing cultural practices through ethnographic lenses. He has taught courses on smoking culture, academic environments, and sensory anthropology. His work bridges theoretical concepts with empirical field studies, particularly examining rural spaces, temporal dynamics, and cultural conflicts.

• Cultural Anthropology
• Ethnography
• European Traditional Cultures
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Freya Björg Olafson serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba School of Art since 2021, following her Assistant Professorship in York University's Department of Dance (2017-2021). Her academic foundation includes an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute/Donau Universität (Austria) and a BA (Honors) from the University of Winnipeg. Educational background: MFA in New Media, Transart Institute/Donau Universität, Austria Bachelor of Arts (Honors), University of Winnipeg Olafson's research critically examines technology's impact on bodily perception and identity through intermedia frameworks. Her practice integrates video, audio, motion capture, and XR technologies to deconstruct digital embodiment, drawing extensively from internet-sourced narratives and ready-made digital assets. She investigates how VR/AR mediates human experience, particularly regarding altered states of consciousness and virtual identity construction, often incorporating Fluxus and Bauhaus influences within contemporary digital contexts. Her creative output demonstrates consistent thematic focus on virtual reality's destabilization of corporeal boundaries. Works like "MÆ - Motion Aftereffect" synthesize motion capture data, 3D modeling, and live processing to create immersive experiences that interrogate technological mediation of reality without requiring headsets. This trajectory reflects broader digital art movements exploring internet culture's influence on perception while maintaining rigorous technical innovation in performance frameworks. Her honors include the Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award (2010) and Winnipeg Arts Council Making A Mark Award (2018), alongside Sobey Art Award longlisting (2020) and Lumen Prize recognition (2021). Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for Risk and Innovation (2010) Making A Mark Award, Winnipeg Arts Council (2018) Combustible Artist Residency Award (2017) Sobey Art Award Longlist (2020) Lumen Prize longlist (2021) York Research Leader (2020) Olafson secures substantial research funding from Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, and international partnerships like UK-Canada Immersive Exchange. Her collaborative projects involve technologists and performers across North America and Europe, with mentorship occurring through Video Pool Media Arts Centre and núna Festival engagements. She actively contributes to Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts & Technology (York University), FADO Performance Art Centre (Toronto), and Video Pool Media Arts Centre (Winnipeg), while leading núna Festival's Canada-Iceland cultural exchange initiatives that foster transnational artistic dialogue through contemporary media practices.

• Intermedia Art
• Digital Performance
• Virtual Reality Art
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Asma Abbas is a Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Bard College at Simon's Rock, where she also serves as Director of the Simon’s Rock Annex for Transdisciplinary and Experimental Studies. Her academic affiliations include roles such as Dean of Academics at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Fulbright-Masaryk Distinguished Chair at Masaryk University, and senior research fellow at the Global Centre of Advanced Studies. Abbas holds a PhD in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University, an MA in Liberal Studies from the New School, and MBA/BBA degrees from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi. Her research focuses on anticolonial and communist politics, poetics, and aesthetics; materialism and religion; critical theory; and postcolonial global politics. Teaching interests include philosophical aesthetics, histories of political thought, postcolonial studies, and political education. She is also engaged in transdisciplinary initiatives like the Simon’s Rock Annex, the Hic Rosa Collective, and the Falsework School for political education. Abbas has contributed to journals such as Democratic Theory and Politics and Culture , and authored monographs like Another Love: A Politics of the Unrequited (2018) and Liberalism and Human Suffering (2010). Her work critiques liberal frameworks, explores affective politics, and advocates for anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and anti-nationalist worldmaking through transdisciplinary collaboration. Her educational projects emphasize experimental pedagogy and institutional innovation, including the Early College Commons and Press funded by the Open Societies Universities Network. Abbas also co-founded the Common Tern Internationalist Co-op, blending cultural work with political education.

• Anticolonial Politics
• Critical Theory
• Political Aesthetics
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Rhonda N. McEwen is a Professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information and the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT). Her work bridges Social and new media Human-machine communication Mobile learning and cognition Special education technology domains. With a PhD in Information (University of Toronto), MSc in Telecommunications (University of Colorado), and MBA in Information Technology (City University, London), she combines technical and social science perspectives. Her research focuses on Emerging media and cognitive informatics Eye-gaze systems for communication Virtual reality perception studies Autism and technology Human-robot trust dynamics . She holds a Canada Research Chair in Emerging Media and Communication, and her work has been featured by 60 Minutes (USA/Australia) and Toronto Star . Recent publications explore VR-based gene regulation simulations and mobile device impacts on education . Notably, her team's eye-gaze technology research (2021) demonstrates how these systems enable communication for children with complex needs. She actively mentors graduate students in projects ranging from home companion robots to mobile communication in autism education .

• Social Media
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Mobile Communication
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Hope Ginsburg is a Professor in the Department of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, where she has taught since 2007. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges environmental art, climate science, and community engagement through large-scale collaborative projects. Her research focuses on environmental art interventions , climate crisis response systems , and eco-feminist pedagogies . Ginsburg develops immersive practices like underwater meditation and amphibious movement systems that integrate scientific research with somatic experience. Her work explores marine ecosystems, atmospheric science, and collaborative knowledge production through projects like Meditation Ocean and Land Dive Team . Ginsburg's recent projects demonstrate evolving trends toward climate adaptation frameworks and cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange . Her work increasingly integrates climate science with participatory practices, creating platforms for community-based environmental action while examining ocean conservation, atmospheric awareness, and interspecies communication through innovative artistic methodologies. National Endowment for the Arts Grant Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award Art Matters Foundation Grant Robert Rauschenberg Residency Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Ginsburg has secured significant grant funding including NEA and Warhol Foundation support for collaborative projects like Sponge Exchange . Her Mildred's Lane residency since 2008 serves as a living laboratory for ecological research and pedagogical experimentation. She advises numerous student-led initiatives including the Coastorama Cooperative, which developed climate crisis dioramas with USF students. Her Mildred's Lane residency functions as an active research site for ecological art practices, while the Land Dive Team operates as a mobile laboratory for amphibious exploration. Ginsburg's work integrates institutional partnerships with community-based science, creating networks for climate response through artistic practice.

• Environmental Art
• Climate Crisis Interventions
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration
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May Chew is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University, holding dual appointments in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and the Department of Art History. She specializes in interactive and immersive technologies in cultural institutions, with a focus on how these technologies shape national and cultural identities. Her research integrates settler-colonial studies, hauntology, and critical race theory. Chew earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at York University’s Sensorium Centre. She collaborates on projects like Houses on Pengarth and Archive/Counter-Archive, emphasizing socially-engaged experimental art and decolonial methodologies. Her teaching spans visual culture, hauntology, and sensory studies, including courses on art and embodiment, Indigenous cinema, and critical immersion. She actively supervises graduate students exploring themes like queer gestures, hauntological analysis, and decolonial futures. Chew participates in academic networks such as EAHR Media and the Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. Her work bridges art history, media studies, and cultural geography, addressing how technologies mediate historical memory and cultural citizenship.

• Interactivity and Immersion
• Public Art and Social Engagement
• Affect Theory
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Oguz Buruk is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, affiliated with the Gamification Group led by Juho Hamari. His research focuses on designing posthuman-era games and wearables, combining speculative design with human-nature-machine interactions. He holds a PhD from Koç University’s Design, Technology and Society Program, with a specialization in Interaction Design. Research Interests: Posthuman/transhuman game experiences involving brain-machine interfaces and robotic companions Wearable gaming technologies and computational fashion Design fiction and speculative design methodologies Human-nature interactions mediated through extended reality (XR) Key Projects: UNITE: Exploring forest-human-machine interplay WEARTUAL: Wearables for VR environments POSTEMOTION: Virtual reality’s socio-emotional impacts His work bridges design research with emerging technologies, emphasizing playful experiences as foundational to effective game design. Recent studies investigate embodied VR experiences, avatar embodiment effects, and transhuman communication systems through co-design workshops.

• Gameful Experience Design
• Posthuman Game Design
• Wearable Technology
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Vanessa Wintoneak is a Lecturer at the School of Education, Edith Cowan University (ECU). She holds a PhD in Education (ECU, 2024), a Master of Education (ECU, 2019), and a Bachelor of Education in Elementary Education (University of Alberta, 2009). Her research focuses on early childhood education, environmental pedagogies, and anti-colonial methodologies. Vanessa’s work often engages with river-child relationships, climate education, and feminist critiques of settler colonialism. She employs innovative participatory methods and emphasizes ethical engagements with marginalized ecologies and Indigenous knowledges. Her research outputs include studies on river-child interactions, climate and waste pedagogies, and methodological frameworks for anti-colonial education. Articles such as Walking collaboratories: experimentations with climate and waste pedagogies (2022) and Voicing Derbarl Yerrigan as a feminist anti-colonial methodology (2022) highlight her interdisciplinary approach. Vanessa’s work bridges environmental studies, critical theory, and early childhood education, advocating for transformative pedagogies that center marginalized voices and ecological justice. No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided materials. She currently has no listed advisees or students. Her professional activities include collaborations through the School of Education’s research programs, though specific labs or teams are not detailed here.

• Early Childhood Education
• Environmental Pedagogies
• Feminist Anti-Colonial Methodologies
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Danielle Russo is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Cornell University's Department of Performing & Media Arts, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a BFA and BA from NYU, and an MFA from Hollins University/ADF. Her work bridges experimental dance, intermedia performance, and community activism, focusing on socially engaged public art. Education: BFA in Dance (NYU Tisch), BA in Anthropology (NYU), MFA in Dance (Hollins University/ADF). Research emphasizes 'sensoriums' that merge environmental engagement with collective movement, particularly addressing climate change and environmental racism. Recent projects like Final Notice use technology to map coastal Brooklyn's floodplains through community collaboration. Awards include multi-year grants from NYC Cultural Affairs, Cornell Council for the Arts, and fellowships from international institutions. Teaching includes NYU’s Big Ideas Course Performance as Protest , SUNY Purchase’s critical dance studies, and global residencies. Her Performance as Protest pedagogy connects art to social activism, featuring international artists addressing urgent causes. Labs/Teams: Founded Danielle Russo Performance Project (DRPP) in 2010, producing large-scale public performances. Collaborates with Red Hook Initiative, El Puente, and scientists/technologists on climate justice projects.

• Experimental Dance
• Intermedia Performance
• Socially Engaged Art
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