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Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? Wh

StefanLaser
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I'm staying at home these days, that is, in Erfurt, set in Eastern Germany. My commute to the Ruhr University – roughly 400 km to the west – thus has been put to a hold. I have a background in waste studies, while also becoming increasingly interested in matters of energy production. I’d like to understand how pollution affects bodies, but also how the reactions to the pandemic are changing the way pollution is discussed and experienced. You can contact me via mail: stefan.laser@rub.de

I'm particularly interested in the following questions:

How is COVID-19 impacting and intersecting with air pollution?

What data infrastructure -- in different settings, at different scales -- supports efforts to understand and respond to COVID-19?

What COVID-19 data visualizations are in circulation and to what effect?

How does COVID-19 impact the civil rights of unsheltered populations and challenge ideas of what a healthy environment is?

Morgan: Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be conta

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I'm currently based in Troy, NY where I recently completed a PhD in Science and Technology Studies.  I'll soon be living in NYC to attend medical school. I can be reached at amorgan14[at]gmail[dot]com

I've long been interested in the disaster of routine medical care in the U.S. healthcare system. As far as COVID-19 is concerned, I'm particularly interested in how the long-term health impacts of intensive care are conceptualized and communicated (including Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS)) and the tensions between acute and chronic illness, broadly. 

How is the aftermath of COVID-19 crisis being imagined in different settings? How is this shaping beliefs, practices, and policies?

AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar
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I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?

Angela Okune

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I live in the bay area in Northern California and am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UC Irvine. My research has focused on shifting data ideologies in Nairobi, Kenya where I lived and worked from 2010 - 2015 and 2019. Learn more here. I can be reached at angela[dot]okune[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Duygu Kasdogan

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I live in İzmir, Turkey, and am assistant professor in the Division of Urbanization and Environmental Problems at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at İzmir Katip Çelebi University. I am also part of an STS Research Network in Turkey – IstanbuLab. I can be reached at duygukasdogan@gmail.com

I have been involved in the Transnational STS Working Group. I am interested in fostering transnational organizational capacities in response to disasters.

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prerna transnational STS COVID-19 collab bio

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I am a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. I am presently sheltering in place in the Irvine for the COVID-19 pandemic. My attachments extend to urban south Asia, specifically Delhi, where I grew up and from where a migrant exodus is underway. I have attempted to understand air pollution governance in Delhi, particularly the types of expertise harnessed to provide explanations of causalities, uncertainties, and strategies. One persistent concern is who is left out conceptually and materially from such explanations, and how histories of urban planning and environmental advocacy contribute to this process. A major portion of this ethnographic work is archived and analysed at the The Asthma Files platform, where I continue to be a collaborator. I am also involved in the ongoing Visualizing Toxic Places project, and have previously participated in the New Orleans Field Campus in 2019. Currently, my research interests involve understanding articulations of citizenship, religion, and (trans)nationalisms that emerge from studying environmental scientific and advocacy communities. 

The questions I am interested in following:

(1) How, in different settings, have dominant political regimes and ideologies shaped COVID-19 preparation and response? 

(2) In a particular setting, what organizations -- governmental, commercial, religious, activist -- have been involved (through action or inaction) in COVID-19 response?  How are these organizations coordinating among themselves? Which organizations have the most cultural authority and political power? 

(3) How is COVID-19 knowledge and expertise moving across national borders? 

(4) How are different ecologies implicated in COVID-19?  

(5) What capacities are there (in different settings) to question how COVID-19 knowledge, management and care are taking shape?

I can be contacted at psrigyan@uci.edu

TS: COVID-19 Biography

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I am a Ph.D. student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. My email is tschuetz@uci.edu.

I have been working on a series of projects that could intersect with the COVID-19 work (running on Disaster STS Network or other PECE instances):

  • Quotidian Anthropocenes – uses a similarr cross-scalar analytics and place focus
  • Visualizing Toxic Place – could help to analyze and create ethnographically rich COVID-19 visuals
  • Environmental Injustice – could be supplemented with COVID-19 disaster case studies (beyond its current focus on California) and other teaching interventions that

I also edit the monthly newsletter for the PECE platform, which can be used to feature COVID-19 project content. You can sign up here to receive the newspaper. 

Cutting across the COVID-19 project (and the others above) is my interest in "archiving for the Anthropocene." I ask what kind of new knowledge and data infrastructures that is necessary to support civic capacity in different places. I currently focus on sites of the Quotidian Anthropocene project, including Taiwan, Germany and Turkey. 

Pedro de la Torre III

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Kim Fortun

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I'm in Irvine, California, affiliated with the University of California Irvine.  I’ve spent my career following industrial environmental disasters, fast (Bhopal, Fukushima) and slow (air pollution).  Read more here.   I can be contacted at kfortun@uci.edu. 

I'm especially interested in these questions: 

How is COVID-19 coordinational capacity in different settings described, evaluated and explained? 

How is COVID-19 impacting and intersecting with air pollution?