Our collaborators
Project co-promotors
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Harro van Lente
Professor of Science and Technology Studies and head of the Department of Technology & Society Studies Department at Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Harro van Lente is one of the founding fathers of the sociology of expectations, which studies how representations of the future shape current socio-technical developments. His current research interests concern how emerging technologies – such as nanotechnology, hydrogen and medical technologies – produce novelty and needs.
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Sally Wyatt
Dr Sally Wyatt is Professor of ‘digital cultures’, Maastricht University. She holds a PhD in Science & Technology Studies from Maastricht University (1998), but originally studied economics in Canada and England. Her current research interests include digital media in the production of knowledge in the humanities and the social sciences, and the ways in which people incorporate the internet into their practices for finding health information.
Local advisors
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Ike Kamphof
Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Dr Ike Kamphof holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Leuven (Belgium, 2002). Ike’s current research focuses on the relationship between aesthetic sensibility and ethical affect, specifically in relation to the use of technologies for the care of vulnerable elderly people and in nature conservation.
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Bernike Pasveer
Assistant Professor at the Department of Technology, Science & Society at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Dr Bernike Pasveer holds a PhD in the Sociology of Science & Technology from the University of Amsterdam (1992). Her research is focused on how knowledge and technologies (can be made to) travel between contexts; on the intricate calibrations of making knowledge/technologies work in new contexts; and on how this calibrating work might be made useful when knowledge/technologies travel.
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Jessica Mesman
Associate Professor at the Department of Technology and Society Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Dr Jessica Mesman is currently also Associate Dean of Education at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research interests include the anthropology of knowledge and the method of video-reflexivity in critical care medicine, particularly the exnovation of informal and unarticulated dimensions of establishing and preserving safety in health care practices.
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Jenny Slatman
Professor of Medical Humanities at Tilburg University.
Dr Jenny Slatman previously held the position of Associate Professor in the School for Public Health and Primary Care at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University. Jenny’s expertise involves philosophy of the body, philosophical anthropology, medical anthropology, and cultural analysis. Her current research focuses on issues of embodiment in art, expression, and contemporary medical practices.
International advisors
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Jeremy Greene
Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhS is the Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, and Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine, at the John Hopkins School of Medicine. He is broadly interested in the history of disease, and his research explores the ways in which medical technologies come to influence our understandings of what it means to be sick or healthy, normal or abnormal. His most recent book, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine, narrates the history of generic drugs as a means of exploring problems of similarity and difference in modern medicine. His new project, The Electronic Patient, examines how changing expectations of instantaneous communications through electric, electronic, and digital media transformed the nature of medical knowledge.
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Rachel Prentice
Professor Rachel Prentice is an anthropologist of medicine, technology, and the body in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. She has written about anatomy and surgery education and practice, including the rise of simulators and other digital tools (Bodies in Formation: An Ethnography of Anatomy and Surgery Education, Duke, 2013). Her current project examines biomechanics and sensory learning in equine and human movement
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Tom Rice
Dr Tom Rice is a Lecturer of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the anthropology of the senses, and particularly, of sound. His PhD was a study of the auditory culture of a London hospital, and his other interests include visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, media anthropology, anthrozoology and the anthropology of institutions.
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Janelle S. Taylor
Professor Janelle S. Taylor is a sociocultural anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her newest research explores why friendships so often prove fragile after the onset of dementia, and how some friendships nonetheless manage to adapt and adjust. She is broadly concerned with documenting and understanding how representations inform social practices; how mediation happens between different systems of value; how “persons” are socially made (and unmade); and how medicine and health care are involved in all of this.
Film maker
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Paul Craddock
Paul Craddock is a cultural historian interested in how medicine and medical practices influence the way we make sense of ourselves and our bodies. His Ph.D explored how transplants have for centuries invited reflection on human identity, also the subject of his first book to be published by Penguin in 2020. He is also currently Research Film Maker on the V&A Research Institute’s Encounters on the Shop Floor project, highlighting the role of embodied knowledge in medical and creative craft, industry, and education. As a film maker for research and cultural institutions, Paul is currently working with Imperial College, London, Maastricht University, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. His film work has been featured in Nature, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and MoMA. Paul holds an honorary appointment Senior Research Associate in the Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences at UCL Medical School in London.
Research assistance
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Candida Sánchez Burmester
Candida is currently enrolled in the research master programme ‘Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology’ (CAST) at Maastricht University. In her Bachelors, she studied ‘Liberal Arts and Sciences’ at the University College Maastricht, mostly focusing on sociology and philosophy. In the last year of her Bachelor, she discovered her passion for Science and Technology Studies, which also influenced her decision to write her Bachelor thesis on the demarcation line between science and non-science in early modern Europe. Her current research interests include environmental history and decoloniality.
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Carla Greubel
Carla studied ‘European Studies on Society, Science and Technology’ for her Master’s at Maastricht University. She also has a bachelor in Socioeconomics at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna, Austria. Her BA thesis was about “social robots used in special fields of work such as care for the elderly”.
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Valentine Delrue
Valentine was enrolled in the MSc ‘History and Philosophy of Science’ at Utrecht University. Previously, she has spent three years in Ghent for her BA in History. Her bachelor’s thesis about the medical non-naturals in early modern colonies testifies to her interests in medical, global, and environmental history.
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Q. Annie Zeng
As of 2023, Annie Zeng is a research master’s student in Cultures of Art, Science, and Technology interested in the anthropological and historical. Through exhibitions and further programming, she experiments with forms of public knowledge production that focus on the experience of learning, thinking through making, and community building. She brings an engineering, design and exhibit development background into her work and actively seeks to begin conversations about academic work outside of their original contexts.
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Victoria Lewis
Victoria Lewis is a master’s student at Maastricht University studying Globalisation and Development within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She has a background in anthropology and is currently researching the use of traditional ecological knowledge within conservation policy in the context of Suriname.
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Janna Vink