Mara Dicenta
@mdicenta.bsky.social
animals, race & science | environmental knowledges | multispecies ethnography | feminist STS
Assistant Prof at William & Mary
Assistant Prof at William & Mary
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How can we engage rivers, gardens, or chickens in qualitative research? 🌱🐓🌊
From Egyptian livestock to Mexican rivers, our new open-access paper shares methodological guidance to listen beyond the human 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1077...
#MoreThanHuman #QualitativeMethods #Posthumanisms #PlanetaryHealth
From Egyptian livestock to Mexican rivers, our new open-access paper shares methodological guidance to listen beyond the human 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1077...
#MoreThanHuman #QualitativeMethods #Posthumanisms #PlanetaryHealth
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
How can we engage rivers, gardens, or chickens in qualitative research? 🌱🐓🌊
From Egyptian livestock to Mexican rivers, our new open-access paper shares methodological guidance to listen beyond the human 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1077...
#MoreThanHuman #QualitativeMethods #Posthumanisms #PlanetaryHealth
From Egyptian livestock to Mexican rivers, our new open-access paper shares methodological guidance to listen beyond the human 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1077...
#MoreThanHuman #QualitativeMethods #Posthumanisms #PlanetaryHealth
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New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
October 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
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A couple of job postings in the #histSTM #histsci #histmed realm: Asst Prof in Social Studies of Medicine at Cambridge, due Nov 17.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine
This is a joint post 65% Sociology, 35% HPS. The Departments of Sociology and History and Philosophy of Science are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine in a
www.cam.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A couple of job postings in the #histSTM #histsci #histmed realm: Asst Prof in Social Studies of Medicine at Cambridge, due Nov 17.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Submit your book nominations to the Sutlive Book Prize!
It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present.
www.wm.edu/as/anthropol...
It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present.
www.wm.edu/as/anthropol...
Vinson Sutlive Book Prize and Lecture
www.wm.edu
September 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Submit your book nominations to the Sutlive Book Prize!
It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present.
www.wm.edu/as/anthropol...
It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present.
www.wm.edu/as/anthropol...
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Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Discussion Event: Extinction in the Museum
Please join us for a public discussion on 18 September, 6-7:30pm, led by Sadiah Qureshi, historian of extinction and author of Vanished, and Rachel Webster, curator of botany at Manchester Museum.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
September 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
Ghostly Lessons: New Forum at Anthropology Theory Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social led by Emma Kowal & Amanda Domingues
Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social
Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts
Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social
Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts
Ghostly Lessons · Anthropological Theory
www.at-commons.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Ghostly Lessons: New Forum at Anthropology Theory Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social led by Emma Kowal & Amanda Domingues
Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social
Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts
Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social
Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts
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Today on Edge Effects, our Companion Species series dives into fishy companionship. Wading in the waters of Utah Lake, Teri Harman explores the history, resilience, and culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp the villains or victims of this story? 🐟
edgeeffects.net/invasive-carp/
edgeeffects.net/invasive-carp/
Carp as Villians and Victims - Edge Effects
Teri Harman considers resilience, fishy companionship, and the culpability of "invasive" carp in Utah Lake. Are carp villains or victims?
edgeeffects.net
June 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today on Edge Effects, our Companion Species series dives into fishy companionship. Wading in the waters of Utah Lake, Teri Harman explores the history, resilience, and culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp the villains or victims of this story? 🐟
edgeeffects.net/invasive-carp/
edgeeffects.net/invasive-carp/
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Can companions be kin and consumed? Today on Edge Effects, Mara Dicenta Vilker, Micah Dill, & Elena McCullough argue yes. They take a river-view to companionship by bringing together herring restoration discourse with fishers' oral histories. 🐟 edgeeffects.net/human-herrin...
Losing Touch with Herring in the Rappahannock River - Edge Effects
Herring-human kinships along the Rappahannock River show how herring embody interspecies companionship beyond settler colonial logics.
edgeeffects.net
May 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Can companions be kin and consumed? Today on Edge Effects, Mara Dicenta Vilker, Micah Dill, & Elena McCullough argue yes. They take a river-view to companionship by bringing together herring restoration discourse with fishers' oral histories. 🐟 edgeeffects.net/human-herrin...
2yr Mellon Postdoc in Environmental Humanities, with focus on multispecies politics @williamandmary
Review applications begins March 14!
jobs.wm.edu/postings/64052
Review applications begins March 14!
jobs.wm.edu/postings/64052
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
The Environment & Sustainability Program at William & Mary, a public university of the Commonwealth of Virginia, invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate position tha...
jobs.wm.edu
February 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
2yr Mellon Postdoc in Environmental Humanities, with focus on multispecies politics @williamandmary
Review applications begins March 14!
jobs.wm.edu/postings/64052
Review applications begins March 14!
jobs.wm.edu/postings/64052
The STS department at RPI (great people and dept) has two Job Searches in Design and STS, one Tenure Track and one Teaching Track
careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
Assistant Professor in Design and Society
The Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the...
careers.rpi.edu
December 5, 2024 at 12:28 AM
The STS department at RPI (great people and dept) has two Job Searches in Design and STS, one Tenure Track and one Teaching Track
careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
careers.rpi.edu/mob/en-us/jo...
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The National Science Foundation will soon require researchers to gain prior approval from tribal governments for any proposal that “may impact tribal resources or interests”
nativesciencereport.org/2024/03/nsf-...
#science #philsci #HPBio #anthropology
nativesciencereport.org/2024/03/nsf-...
#science #philsci #HPBio #anthropology
NSF Sets Higher Bar for Research Proposals Affecting Tribes
The National Science Foundation will soon require researchers to gain prior approval from tribal governments for any proposal that “may impact tribal resources or interests”
nativesciencereport.org
November 26, 2024 at 4:39 PM
The National Science Foundation will soon require researchers to gain prior approval from tribal governments for any proposal that “may impact tribal resources or interests”
nativesciencereport.org/2024/03/nsf-...
#science #philsci #HPBio #anthropology
nativesciencereport.org/2024/03/nsf-...
#science #philsci #HPBio #anthropology
Science as Culture Special Issue:
Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation CfP
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Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation CfP
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Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation
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November 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Science as Culture Special Issue:
Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation CfP
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation CfP
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Deadline for abstracts tomorrow, Nov 15!
CFP: Techno-Environmental Racialization. @sthv.bsky.social
We invite contributions that explore racializing techno-environmental processes and how these are un/done by knowledge practices and multispecies relations. Submit 👇🏾
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CFP: Techno-Environmental Racialization. @sthv.bsky.social
We invite contributions that explore racializing techno-environmental processes and how these are un/done by knowledge practices and multispecies relations. Submit 👇🏾
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 14, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Deadline for abstracts tomorrow, Nov 15!
CFP: Techno-Environmental Racialization. @sthv.bsky.social
We invite contributions that explore racializing techno-environmental processes and how these are un/done by knowledge practices and multispecies relations. Submit 👇🏾
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CFP: Techno-Environmental Racialization. @sthv.bsky.social
We invite contributions that explore racializing techno-environmental processes and how these are un/done by knowledge practices and multispecies relations. Submit 👇🏾
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Special Plenary: Aloha 'Āina: Hawaiian Knowledge Today" happens TODAY (Nov 9) at 4sHonolulu23 . Speakers are Manulani Aluli Meyer, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, and Malia Akutagawa.
November 9, 2023 at 3:30 PM
Special Plenary: Aloha 'Āina: Hawaiian Knowledge Today" happens TODAY (Nov 9) at 4sHonolulu23 . Speakers are Manulani Aluli Meyer, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, and Malia Akutagawa.