Anthropology | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:27:49 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Patrick Mbullo Owuor /research/tubman/profile/patrick-mbullo-owuor/ Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:27:35 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=2585 Patrick is a biocultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the biological and environmental impacts of infrastructure. His work lies at the intersection between culture, biology, and the environment. Patrick’s dissertation project, Dams, and Displacements: Biosocial Impacts of the Thwake Multipurpose Dam Construction on Women in Makueni County, Kenya, examined the psychosocial, nutritional, and physical health impacts of dam construction on women in Makueni County, Kenya. Patrick has a long-standing commitment to collaborative and community-based participatory research, where he has been involved in numerous public health interventions seeking to address global health issues, including health disparities in contemporary marginalized populations and global health. Patrick is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Canada, where his research focuses on the ethics of biobanking in clinical trials in East Africa.

]]> Denielle A. Elliott /research/tubman/profile/denielle-a-elliott/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:20:00 +0000 /tubmandev/?p=1290 Denielle A. Elliott is Associate Professor at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Science. She is currently the Graduate Program Director for the Science and Technology Studies program. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. Her research for the large part focuses on arts-based ethnography and the intersections of colonialism, medicine and science, and politics. She has conducted fieldwork in British Columbia (Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on HIV/AIDS, epidemiological surveillance and colonial health) and in Nairobi and Kisumu, Kenya (‘Safari Science’, experimental medicine, scientific infrastructure, and the politics of transnational science).

Her current project entitled "Neurological Imaginaries" explores the sensorial and affective dimensions of traumatic brain injuries. 

Her recent book publication, (Routledge 2019), is a collaborative account of immunologist Davy Koech's life's work building bioscientific infrastructure in Kenya and his relationship with former president Daniel arap Moi.

She is co-editor with Anna Harris of the with Somatosphere.

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