David Jaclin

David Jaclin is an Associate Professor at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, where he directs the HumAnimaLab. His work bridges Anthropology and Communication Studies, focusing on human-nature relationships through media ecology and multispecies ethnographies.

• Doctorate in Anthropology from Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris)
• Doctorate in Communication from University of Montreal
• Postdoctoral fellowship at MIT (HASTS) via Fyssen Foundation

His research explores the history of domestication, anthropocenic reconfigurations, and informational processes across ecological contexts. Current projects span from atmospheric rivers in California to microbial transformations in Quebec mines, with interdisciplinary forays into cloud seeding in Taiwan and hydroelectric dismantling in Europe.

Key trends across his publications include:

• Challenging traditional nature/culture dichotomies
• Developing transductive models of animality
• Interrogating postnatural ontologies
• Reconceptualizing communication as ecological process

Scientific contributions include

• Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Editorial leadership at Social Science Information
• Founding the HumAnimaLab's experimental ethnographic methods

He investigates emergent relationalities through multi-sited ethnographies, focusing on domestication circuits, biological transfigurations, and ecologies of expression that challenge taxonomic boundaries while revealing the co-constitutive nature of human-animal interactions.