Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
Biography
Canay Özden-Schilling is an anthropologist of capitalism, technology, and infrastructures, with past and ongoing research projects on markets of electricity and global port logistics. Broadly, she is interested in the technological work cultures that create and disseminate the economic formations with which we live. Her first book, The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics (Stanford University Press, 2021), is an ethnography of the electric grid in the United States in the age of competitive markets and smart grids. Her current book-length project explores maritime shipping, as seen from the port cities of Mersin (Turkey) and Singapore. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore.
Selected publications
Özden-Schilling, C. Staying with the blackout: an insecure anthropology of energy. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.14160?campaign=wolearlyview
