Michael Montoya is the author of Making the Mexican Diabetic: Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality (University of California Press, 2011). He is professor of Anthropology, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Public Health and Nursing Science at the University of California, Irvine. The STS Methods series tracks methods by which we surface and elucidate sociotechnical objects, systems, networks, infrastructures, and things. For more information visit www.sts.ucr.edu Download flyer Part of Science Studies Hour Image: NogardDer, “Where They Make the Stuff” is licensed under CC BY 3.0 -- [...]

Christopher Kelty is the author of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Duke University Press, 2008). He is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds appointments in the department of Anthropology, the department of Information Studies, and the Institute for Society and Genetics. The STS Methods series tracks methods by which we surface and elucidate sociotechnical objects, systems, networks, infrastructures, and things. For more information visit www.sts.ucr.edu Download flyer Part of Science Studies Hour Image: NogardDer, “Where They Make [...]

Morana Alač is author of Handling Digital Brains: A Laboratory Study of Multimodal Semiotic Interaction in the Age of Computers, which traces the ways in which fMRI researchers integrate their bodies in the process of producing knowledge from brain scans. Her ethnographic research uses video to engage with ethnomethodology, interactions with technology, gesture, multimodality, and the senses among topics like social robots and scientific visualization. The STS Methods series tracks methods by which we surface and elucidate sociotechnical objects, systems, networks, infrastructures, and things. For [...]

Audra Mitchell holds the CIGI Chair in Global Governance and Ethics at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, located on the lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Attawandaron peoples (Waterloo, Canada). She is a founding member of the Creatures' Collective, an international group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers, knowledge keepers, activists and artists concerned with resisting global extinction. Having previously worked in the field of violence studies, Audra is working to theorise the structural violences that drive global extinction, and to support decolonial efforts to [...]

Cristina T. Bejarano is a UC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCR. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, where she specialized in the Anthropology of Science and Technology Studies. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Academies of Sciences Ford Foundation. The STS Methods series tracks methods by which we surface and elucidate sociotechnical objects, systems, networks, infrastructures, and things. Download flyer Part of Science Studies Hour — Image: NogardDer, “Where They Make the [...]