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Patrick Chukwudike Okpalaeke

rebsl — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:50:52 +0000

Patrick Chukwudike Okpalaeke is a PhD student in the Department of History. He holds a BA in History and International Studies and an MA in Social and Political History both from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. He is interested in African history, environmental history, history of health and medicine, and mining history during the twentieth century.

Yousif Hassan

rebsl — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:23:00 +0000

Dr. Hassan is a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for African Studies and Illinois Distinguished Fellow and Research Associate in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research examines the relationship between race, digital technology, and technoscientific capitalism. Dr. Hassan’s work is at the intersection of social and racial justice, and technology policy focusing on the social, economic, and political implications of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and data. Dr. Hassan was a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. His most recent project investigates the sociotechnical knowledge production practices of the state, scientists, and the tech industry focusing on the development of AI and its innovation ecosystem across multiple African countries.

Keywords: Science and Technology Studies, Black and African Studies, Political Economy of Technoscience, Information Science, Communication Studies, Critical Algorithm Studies, Critical Innovation Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Digital Platforms

Sarah Barrett

rebsl — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 07:45:17 +0000

Sarah Barrett is a Professor in the Faculty of Education. Her research focuses on teachers' experiences of how their values and beliefs influence their practice; the ethical aspects of environmental education; teaching science for social justice; science teacher education; and developing more inclusive high school science curricula.

Denielle A. Elliott

rebsl — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:20:00 +0000

Denielle A. Elliott is Associate Professor at �첥��Ƶ 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.