{"id":1584,"date":"2021-11-24T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/tubmandev\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:27:49","slug":"denielle-a-elliott","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/profile\/denielle-a-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"Denielle A. Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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 (\u2018Safari Science\u2019, experimental medicine, scientific infrastructure, and the politics of transnational science).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her current project entitled \"Neurological Imaginaries\" explores the sensorial and affective dimensions of traumatic brain injuries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her recent book publication, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/e\/9781315163840\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya: Stories from an African Scientist<\/em> <\/a>(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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is co-editor with Anna Harris of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/somatosphere.net\/series\/writing-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">#WritingLife Series<\/a> with Somatosphere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1081,923,1420,924],"tags":[139,143,142,200,226,140,225,173,66],"class_list":["post-1584","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","category-member-facultyfellow","category-health-and-disability","category-past-directors","category-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics","tag-anthropology","tag-art","tag-arts-based-ethnography","tag-colonialism","tag-ethnology","tag-intersections-of-colonialism","tag-medicine","tag-science","tag-sociology"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1081,"label":"Faculty Fellow"},{"value":923,"label":"Health and Disability"},{"value":1420,"label":"Past Directors"},{"value":924,"label":"Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics"}],"post_tag":[{"value":139,"label":"Anthropology"},{"value":143,"label":"Art"},{"value":142,"label":"Arts-based ethnography"},{"value":200,"label":"Colonialism"},{"value":226,"label":"Ethnology"},{"value":140,"label":"intersections of colonialism"},{"value":225,"label":"Medicine"},{"value":173,"label":"science"},{"value":66,"label":"sociology"}]},"featured_image_src_large":[],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/research\/tubman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}