Co-Editor, Cultural Anthropology (culanth.org)

CURRENT PROJECTS

Informating Environmentalism, a book manuscript that examines how information technology, theory and culture has shaped the environmental field over the last two decades.

The Asthma Files, a collaborative, web-based project to draw together and explicate many different perspectives on asthma – from different scientific disciplines, from health care providers and patients and from different geographic locales.

Strategizing Transdisciplinarity: From Exposure Assessment to Exposure Science, an NSF funded study focused on recent developments in the field of (environmental) exposure science. 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming           “Figuring Out Ethnography,” The Ends of Fieldwork edited by George Marcus.  Duke University Press.

2006        “Poststructuralism, Technoscience and the Promise of Public Anthropology,” India Review Vol 5. No 2-3.  Fall.

2005        “Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology,” American Anthropologist.  Vol 107. No 1.  March. (co-authored with Mike Fortun)

2004         “Environmental Information Systems and Appropriate Technology,” Design Issues Vol 20. No.3. Fall. 

                “From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmental Health: Risk Communication in Historical Perspective,” OSIRIS (Special issue: Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments, edited by Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy and Christopher Sellers) Vol 19.

2003        “Ethnography In/Of/As Open Systems,” p171-190 Reviews in Anthropology Vol 32/2.

2002         “Review Essay: Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof.” Ethics, Place and Environment. Vol 5/1. March.

2001        Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders. University of Chicago Press. (Awarded the 2003, biannual Sharon Stephens Prize by the American Ethnological Society)