María A. Vélez-Serna is a lecturer in Film and Media at the University of Stirling, and a film school graduate from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is the author of Ephemeral Cinema Spaces (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and co-author of Early Cinema in...
David Schröter is an FNS Doctoral Student at the University of Lausanne, and part of the Cultural and Social Anthropology Laboratory (LACS). His research ethnographically explores the impact of lithium extraction at the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, by looking at practices...
Jessica M. Smith is an anthropologist and STS scholar whose research interests center on energy, engineering, and public accountability. She is Associate Professor in the Engineering, Design & Society Department at the Colorado School of Mines, where she also...
PhD in International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) Master of Social Science - Human Ecology: Culture, Power and Sustainability, Lund University, Sweden Bachelor of Science in Geography, Christian-Albrechts-University...
Adrian Finch specialises in critical element deposits in rift-related magmatism; how to find them, how they form and how they are modified by late-stage fluids. He is particularly involved in reconstructing the three-dimensional shape of the ore body and determining...
Sonja Dobroski is a lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is a social anthropologist with an interdisciplinary background in material culture and Native American studies. In addition to her PhD, Sonja holds a master’s...
Mark Goodale is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology and former Director of the Laboratory of Cultural and Social Anthropology (LACS) at the University of Lausanne. Before moving to Switzerland in 2014, he held teaching positions at George Mason University,...
Dr Itay Noy is a social anthropologist interested in the interaction between energy extractive projects and local rural populations. Based on long-term fieldwork, his research is concerned with the variegated impact of coal mining operations on Adivasi (tribal)...
I have a PhD in environmental studies from Yale University, where I specialized in anthropology and political ecology. I also have an MSc in environmental economics from the LSE, and bachelor's degrees in international studies and Chinese from the University of...
Dr Philippa Lovatt is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on artists’ moving image, sound, eco-criticism, and Southeast Asian independent film and video cultures. She is currently writing a monograph on the politics of...