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Published On: Sep 24 2025
Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
The Climate and Environmental Studies Program at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications for a non-tenure-track Mellon Assistant Professor (three-year term, 2-2 teaching load) whose research engages climate and environmental humanities. We invite candidates working in all historical periods and cultural fields and especially welcome those who work in the arts and/or public humanities. Applicants must have completed their Ph.D. between August 16, 2022 and August 1, 2026. in a climate and/or environmental humanities-related field.
Published On: Sep 24 2025
In an era of accelerating extinctions, what does it mean to discover thousands of new species in the deep sea? As we see the catastrophic effects of the Anthropocene proliferate, advanced technologies also grant us greater access to the furthest reaches of the world’s oceans, facilitating the discovery of countless new species. Sorting through the implications of this strange paradox, Stacy Alaimo explores the influence this newfound intimacy with the deep sea might have on our broader relationship to the nonhuman world. While many images of these abyssal creatures circulate as shallow c...
Published On: Sep 24 2025
Spain has become one of the most prominent fertility markets in the world, largely fuelled by the availability of human eggs. Behind the promise of cutting-edge technology and parenthood lies a carefully tailored system to recruit, manage, and discipline egg donors. In this book, published as part of Palgrave's flagship book series 'Health, Technology and Society', Anna Molas explores how young women are incorporated as egg donors into the global reproductive industry. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with both donors and clinicians, the book reveals the fragile processes of selection, ...
Published On: Sep 24 2025
This open access book presents groundbreaking research, offering new empirical findings, showcasing a range of different methods, and advancing theoretical perspectives relating to science communication and trust. The investigation of science communication and trust is enhanced by the many international scholars and disciplinary approaches featured. The book includes three thematic sections: the first focuses on the role of trustworthy science communicators, the second is concerned with the varying contexts of science communication for trust, while the third unpacks various features of trust i...
Published On: Sep 24 2025
This volume edited by Noela Invernizzi and Leandro Rodriguez Medina enriches Latin American Science and Technology Studies by making a pioneering contribution to theories from its geopolitical margins. Rather than merely challenging Northern dominance, it fosters dialogue between Northern and Southern scholars, highlighting the complex, multi-situated development of science and technology and contributing to the field’s diversification and internationalization. This is the first book published in Palgrave's new series: Transnationalizing Theory in Science and Technology Studies.
Published On: Sep 24 2025
Deadline: Oct 15, 2025
Through its fellowship programs, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. Projects may include (but are not limited to) historical research and documentation projects resulting in publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products.
Published On: Sep 24 2025
Deadline: Oct 4, 2025
The University of California at Berkeley seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment at the level of assistant professor in the Department of History. The Department of History is one of the largest and most distinguished units in UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Science. The Department's faculty ranges across virtually all of the major geographical and chronological fields recognized by the discipline and includes experts in many areas of pivotal thematic significance.
Published On: Aug 8 2025
Deadline: Oct 7, 2025
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in Knowledge Systems, Infrastructures, Communities, and Cultures. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026.
Candidates must have earned a PhD degree in Information Studies, Library Science, Archival Studies, Museum Studies, Media Studies, Communications, Cultural Studies, History, Anthropology, Sociology, Social Sciences, Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, or a related area by th...
Published On: Sep 24 2025
The journal Anthropology Theory Commons has just published a Forum on Ghosts and Haunting. The collection is led by Emma Kowal and Amanda Domingues and has articles by several of our 4S members (Mara Dicenta, Michelle Bootcov, Vivette García-Deister, Lydia Gibson, Lisette Jong, Ricardo Roque, Thiago P. Barbosa, Trevor Engel, Warwick Anderson)
Published On: Sep 24 2025
Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
Registration is open for a one-day, online pedagogy workshop on integrating Latin American and Caribbean history of science and environmental history into teaching in adjacent fields. The workshop aims to inspire historians to teach about Latin American science and environment, with a specific focus on the nineteenth and twentieth-century periods. Participants will come away with concrete ideas for teaching modules that can be integrated into existing courses or used to design new ones. The modules will include peer-reviewed readings, primary sources, and ideas generated from discussion. The w...