Sociology of health and illness; global and transnational health; reproductive health, rights and justice; experience of illness; narrative; visual sociology

Science and technology studies; critical data studies; algorithmic justice; marketing; data brokers and big data; healthcare privacy; biocapital; medicine; health; knowledge and power in late capital; the production of value and alternatives; anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces and collectives.

Political, cultural and organizational dimensions of clinical medicine, social dimensions of technological innovation, and technology, science and aging

Visual anthropology; photography; social media; global media; digital culture; urban culture; Southeast Asia

Environmental sociology, political economy, place and space, rural-urban interface, qualitative and historical methodologies

African American History; History of Medicine; History of Psychiatry; Urban History; 20^th Century US History; History of Racial Capitalism; History of Sexuality

• The role of affect in scientific knowledge, how public claims about affect are used to establish authority, and the role of affect as an analytic tool and method in science studies.
• Productive entanglements between so-called “lay” and “expert” knowledge.
• Affective dimensions of social movements that have engaged medical authorities and patient groups.
• Modes through which information about scientific practice—as opposed to scientific findings—is communicated to different publics.
• How discourse about what science is or ought to be shapes both peopleʼs reception of scientific information and their personal investment in science as a form of knowledge.

Environmental Philosophy/Environmental Humanities; Food Justice; Climate Justice; Social and Political Philosophy; Decolonization

Medical education, the social construction of bodies and emotions, and the politics of scientific knowledge production