Local Level: Dr. Hird's Research Team
Dr. Myra J. Hird works with a team of graduate and undergraduate students on various waste issue topics (see projects page).
National Level
Advisory Group
Lucy’s current research interests centre on the project of writing ethnographies of sites of technology production and use, and contributing to emerging reconceptualizations of social/material relations based in anthropology, feminist theory and science and technology studies. She has recently concluded a project titled 'Relocating Innovation: Places and material practices of future-making' funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the project ran from January 2008 - September 2010 [...]
International Level
Advisory Group
Hugh Raffles
Anthropology
Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
Hugh Raffles lives in New York and currently teaches anthropology at The New School. Hugh's writing has appeared in academic journals and more popular venues, including the New York Times, Granta, Natural History, and The Best American Essays. In Amazonia: A Natural History (Princeton University Press, 2002) was awarded the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing and selected by the American Library Association as an Outstanding Academic Title.
Lucian Gomoll
Honors College and Liberal Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
Lucian Gomoll is Assistant Professor at Cal State LA. He earned his MA/PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Gomoll is a critical theorist who teaches and writes about the sciences, dis/ability, gender, race, sexuality, species, museums, and art. His forthcoming book manuscript, Performativity and Difference in Museums, historicizes and theorizes various ways that bodies have been incorporated into exhibitions and archives since the early nineteenth century.