Amee Lea Barber is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta specializing in Gender and Comparative Politics. Currently she is most fascinated by theories of democratic and sexual citizenship and enjoys what she considers to be the radical nature of the discipline.
Anders Blok is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University, Denmark. His current research is on professional practices of sustainable architecture in the context of urban climate change politics. He has published, among other places, in Science, Technology & Human Values; Public Understanding of Science; and Environment and Planning D. Recently, he is the co-author (with Torben E. Jensen) of Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World (Routledge, 2011).
Anne-Marie Fortier is a reader in Social and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University. She is the author of Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation (2008) and Migrant Belongings: Memory, Space, Identity (2000), in addition to edited collections and several journal articles. Her current research interests are twofold: the citizenship naturalization process in Britain, and the use of genetic genealogies to formulate ideas of collective identities.
Susan Elizabeth Kelly has a PhD in medical sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. She began following foetal cell transfer science while a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, where she took further training in bioethics, history and philosophy of science, and genetics. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (EGENIS) at the University of Exeter, and Head of the Health, Technology & Society (HTS) research group.
Nicole Nelson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Her dissertation research explored how animal behavior genetics practitioners establish experimental systems to model human behavioral disorders and how they manage the excess of uncertainty associated with the “complexity” of behavior. Currently, she is studying a breast cancer genomics clinical trial as part of a collaborative project that examines the emergence of “personalized medicine” in cancer treatment.
Frédéric Nicolas is a PhD student (Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Toulouse & Université Laval, Québec) and Teaching Assistant at the Institut d'Étude Politique (Toulouse). He is currently working on voluntary work and ‘lay expertise’ in organic farming. His case studies involve the organization World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms in three different contexts (France, Québec, New Zealand).
Elena Simakova is currently working at the University of Exeter Business School. Her recent research projects mainly focus on the dynamics at the university-industry-policy interface, with particular emphasis on the construction of societal relevance and impact of emerging technoscientific fields. Pursuing her interest in the market studies, she has also researched and published on hi-tech innovation in telecommunication industries (in Social Studies of Science and Marketing Theory, with Daniel Neyland) and ethical trade (including Oxford University Press, with Daniel Neyland).
Jennifer Tomomitsu is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Science Studies at the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK.
Matthew C. Watson is a postdoctoral teaching scholar in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at North Carolina State University. His current book project examines Maya hieroglyphic decipherment as a public science.