Mustafa Al-Bassam is a Researcher at the Department of Computer Science at University College London, and previously one of 6 core members of the hacking collective LulzSec

Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Claudio Aporta is Associate Professor and Director of Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University.

Soe Lin Aung is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. His research focuses on infrastructure, dispossession, and popular politics in rural Myanmar.

Jonathan Bach is Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at The New School in New York.

Götz Bachmann is Professor for Digital Cultures at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media and convenor of the Bachelor Major Digital Media at Leuphana University, Germany.

Andrea Ballestero is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.

Jenny Bangham is a historian of science at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and is writing a book on mid-century blood transfusion and human genetics.

Andrew Barry is Chair of Human Geography at University College London.

Etienne Benson is an Assistant Professor and historian of the environmental sciences, environmentalism and human-animal relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jacqueline Best is Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, where she works on political, cultural and social underpinnings of the global economy. Her most recent research examines the concept and role of economic exceptionalism in times of crisis.

Paula Bialski is a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University’s Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL), where she bides her time pestering students in the Digital Media BA program and conducting an organizational ethnography of a corporate tech company in Berlin.

Xhulio Binjaku is a Researcher at the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism

Reuben Binns is a postdoctoral research fellow in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, interested in philosophical, technical and legal aspects of personal data, privacy, and the web.

Carwil Bjork-James is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

Bodó Balázs, PhD, is an economist and piracy researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam.

Christian Borch is Professor of Economic Sociology and Social Theory at the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Professor of Informatics at University of California, Irvine and is working on the nature of the Archive.

Dominic Boyer is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University.

Paul Braund is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex and works at the intersection of information systems, design and international development.

Finn Brunton is an assistant professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.

Ashley Carse is Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University.

Michael Carter is a doctoral research student in the Department of Geography, also at Queen’s University.

Brenda Chalfin is the Director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida

Aldo Chircop is Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Maritime Law and Policy at Dalhousie University

Franck Cochoy is Professor of sociology at the University of Toulouse, a member of the CERTOP-CNRS, France.

Naomi Colvin is Beneficiary Case Director at the Courage Foundation, which supports whistleblowers, hacktivists and other truthtellers who have made import contributions to the historical record.

Jason Cons is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Deborah Cowen is Associate Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto.

Chris Csíkszentmihályi is a scholar and technologist whose work draws from the humanities, design, and art.

Michael Degani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Alain Desrosières was a statistician at the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) in Paris and historian of science at the Centre Alexandre Koyré, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) (Paris).

Philip Di Salvo is a researcher and a journalist. Currently, he is a doctoral student at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland).

Emmanuel Didier is a permanent researcher at EHESS – CNRS, Groupe de sociologie politique et morale (GSPM), in Paris.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger.

Kevin P. Donovan is a doctoral candidate in the programs in Anthropology & History and Science, Technology & Society at the University of Michigan.

Joan Donovan is Media Manipulation Research Lead at Data and Society in New York.

Jatin Dua is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a member of the Chokepoints Collective. 

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier is research professor at Sciences Po and works at the Centre de sociologie des organisations in Paris.

Vincent Duclos is Assistant Professor at Drexel University, with a joint appointment in the Center for Science, Technology & Society, and the Dept. of Global Studies & Modern Languages.

Elizabeth Dunn is an Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Department of International Studies (joint appointment), Indiana University, Bloomington IN.

Myriam Dunn Cavelty is Senior lecturer for security studies and deputy for research and teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich.

Tor Ekeland is many things to many people, but mostly a lawyer.

Lukas Engelmann is a historian of medicine and postdoctoral scholar at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

Nicholas H. A. Evans is an anthropologist who writes about South Asia at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

Makalé Faber Cullen is the Creative Director of Wilderness of Wish, an ethnographic research and design practice based in New York City and operating internationally.

Alison Fairbrother is the executive director of the Public Trust Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that investigates and reports on misrepresentations of science by corporations, government and the media.

Lyle Fearnley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Alek Felstiner is an employment lawyer at Levy Ratner, P.C., a firm at the forefront of the workers’ rights movement.

Catherine Fennell is an anthropologist at Columbia University whose work examines the social and material legacies of housing in the urban Midwest.

Emmanuelle Fillion is a health and disability sociologist.

Adam Fish is an anthropologist and Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University where he researches digital industries and digital activism.

Steven Flipse (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Science Communication at the Delft University of Technology.

Andreas Folkers is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and works on the techno-biopolitics of infrastructure.

Luca Follis is a political sociologist and Lecturer in the Law Department at Lancaster University; his work focuses on the intersection of law, the state and resistance.

Robert Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is a a staff writer at Motherboard, where he covers hacking, information security, and digital rights.

Susanne Freidberg is Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College.

Xaq Frohlich is an Assistant Professor of History of Technology in the Department of History at Auburn University.

Tarleton Gillespie is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, New England.

Jesse Goldhammer is a political scientist and the Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Information.

Ashley Gorham is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Christelle Gramaglia is a researcher in sociology at the Department of Waters at the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture in France.

Kevin Grove is Assistant Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University.

Claudio Guarnieri, a.k.a. nex, is a security researcher and human rights activist. He is a technologist at Amnesty International, a researcher with the Citizen Lab, and the co-founder of Security Without Borders.

Gökçe Günel is an Assistant Professor in School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies at the University of Arizona.

Orit Halpern is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University.

Penny Harvey is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Kim Hendrickx is an anthropologist at the Spiral Research Centre at the University of Liège, Belgium, and he is currently finalizing a PhD about food-related health claims.

Ruben Hickman is a Production Designer at Paramount Animation.

Matthew Hockenberry is a media historian and technologist whose work focuses on media structure and materiality.

Sophie Houdart is an anthropologist and research professor at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.

Cymene Howe is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University.

Lilly Irani is an Assistant Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego.

Boris Jardine is a researcher at the University of Cambridge, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Mikko Jauho is a Senior Researcher at the National Consumer Research Centre Finland.

Christopher F. Jones is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University and author of Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (2014).

Vincent Joos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Florida state University.

Stephanie C. Kane is Professor of International Studies at Indiana University.

Judith Kaplan is currently pursuing her interests in the history of the human and historical sciences, linguistics in particular, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Meena Khandelwal is a professor in anthropology and gender studies at the University of Iowa. She is writing a book about the cookstove-fuelwood-gender nexus in India which calls for cooperation between science and humanities to better understand complex real world problems.

Nicholas B. King is an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, where he is holds appointments in the Institute for Health and Social Policy, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, and Department of Social Studies of Medicine.

Hannah Knox is Lecturer in Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London.

Daniel Kreiss is Associate Professor in the School of Media and Journalism and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Guillaume Lachenal is Associate Professor in History of Science at the Université Paris Diderot studying the history and anthropology of biomedicine in Africa.

Whitney Laemmli is an Mellon/ACLS Fellow and PhD candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hannah Landecker is the Director of the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Anna Lappé is a national bestselling author, respected advocate for sustainability and justice along the food chain and an advisor to funders investing in food system transformation.

Frédéric Le Marcis is professor of social anthropologist at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

Eric Leleu is an independent documentary photographer based in Northern France.

Rebecca Lemov is an Associate Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.

Joshua Lewis is a geographer and urban ecologist at Tulane University in New Orleans.  

Javier Lezaun is the Deputy Director at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford.

Brian Lindseth is a graduate student in Sociology and Science Studies at UCSD.

Austin Lord is a PhD Student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Cornell University, interested in questions of disaster, energy, infrastructure, and uncertainty in Nepal.

Theresa MacPhail is a medical anthropologist and an Assistant Professor of Science & Technology Studies, medical anthropology, and global health at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Vanessa Manceron is a researcher at the Research Center for Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.

Caroline Melly is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Smith College and author of Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City (University of Chicago, 2017). 

Townsend Middleton is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

James Christopher Mizes is a doctoral candidate in the Department of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

Baptiste Monsaingeon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Alexandre Koyré Center, whose research focuses on synthetic polymers as disposable materials, especially around the protocol of reduction of plastic bags on a European scale.

Amy Moran-Thomas is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at MIT, interested in questions of environmental change and ethnographic approaches to science, technology, and medicine.

Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University. He’s the author of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty with Rachel Schneider.

Mary Murrell is currently an honorary fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Alex Nading is a medical and environmental anthropologist who studies the entanglement of human lives with the lives of nonhumans, particularly dengue mosquitoes, dengue viruses and microbiota.

Vinh-Kim Nguyen is an HIV and Emergency physician and medical anthropologist.

Sven Opitz is Professor of Political Sociology at Philipps Universität Marburg.

Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.

Christopher Otter is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University.

Dr. Ben Outhwaite has been head of the Genizah Research Unit in Cambridge University Library since 2006.

Canay Özden-Schilling recently received her PhD from MIT with a dissertation on the exchange of electricity and neoliberalism in the United States.

Onur Ozgode is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Science in Human Culture Program and a sociologist whose work explores the emergence and governance of socio-economic and techno-political problems that exceed the limits of political (neo-)liberalism.

Heather Paxson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America.

Bart Penders (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in Biomedicine and Society at Maastricht University’s School of Public Health and Primary Care, and a Network Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.

Adriana Petryna is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Amira Pettus is a digital product designer and strategist at ThoughtWorks, a global technology consultancy.

Branwyn Poleykett is a postdoctoral research associate on the Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic project at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.

Martha Poon is Adjunct Research Affiliate for the Committee on Global Thought and an affiliate of the Department of Anthropology at the New School.

Michael Powell has a PhD in cultural anthropology from Rice University, and currently works in Los Angeles at the strategy and design firm Shook Kelley, a strategy and design firm.

Julien Prévieux is a French artist and laureate of the 2014 Marcel Duchamp Prize.

Joanna Radin is an Assistant Professor of History of Medicine and History at Yale University.

Jenny Reardon is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at UCSC, and is the author of Race to the Finish: Identity and Governance in an Age of Genomics.

Peter Redfield is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

David Reubi is a Wellcome Trust Fellow in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King’s College London, where he is currently working on a manuscript about the biopolitics of the African smoking epidemic.

Renée Ridgway is presently a PhD candidate at Copenhagen Business School (MPP) and a research affiliate with the Digital Cultures Research Lab (DCRL), Leuphana University, Lüneburg.

Janell Rothenberg received her PhD in anthropology from UCLA and works as an independent design anthropologist and strategist.

Molly Sauter is a PhD student at McGill University in Art History and Communication Studies, and the author of The Coming Swarm: DDoS Actions, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, published by Bloomsbury in 2014.

David Schleifer researches and writes about food, healthcare, technology, education and public opinion. He is the Director of Research at at Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and engagement organization.

Anke Schwittay is the Head of International Development at the University of Sussex. She is the author of New Media and International Development: Representation and Affect in Microfinance.

Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford.

Nick Seaver is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tufts University and also teaches in the Science, Technology, and Society program.

Chloe Silverman is an Associate Professor in the Department Politics at Drexel University and a member of the Science, Technology and Society Program.

Benjamin Sims is a sociologist with the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory with broad interests in qualitative and quantitative social science.

Rebecca Slayton is Assistant Professor jointly in the Science & Technology Studies Department and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University.

Ivan V. Small is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Central Connecticut State University.

Nicole Starosielski is an Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.

Alice Street is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellors Fellow, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

Ute Tellmann is Senior Lecturer for Sociology at the University of Hamburg.

Tatiana Thieme is an urban ethnographer and Lecturer based in the Department of Geography at University College London.

Didier Tornyis a senior researcher in sociology, whose work examines private and public normative action relating to health.

Gabriela Valdivia is in the department of geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she researches the political ecology of oil and teaches courses on natural resource governance in Latin America.

Maria Vidart-Delgado is a cultural anthropologist.

Antina von Schnitzler is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs and an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Anthropology.

Steven Weber is a Professor at the School of Information and Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.

Sarah Myers West is a PhD Candidate and the Wallis Annenberg Graduate Research Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Jerome Whitington is an anthropologist specializing in climate change who holds a joint appointment as Senior Research Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster at the Asia Research Institute and Teaching Fellow at Tembusu College.

Alan Wiig is an Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

David Murakami Wood is Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Surveillance Studies at Queen’s University, Ontario.

Sara Wylie is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University with a joint appointment in Sociology and Anthropology, and Health Sciences as part of Northeastern’s Social Science and Environmental Health Research Institute.

Emily Yates-Doerr is a postdoc at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam.

Kim Zetter is an award-winning, senior staff reporter at Wired covering cybercrime, privacy, and security.