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Simone M. Müller

Simone M. Müller is DFG-Heisenberg Professor for Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg. As a historian and environmental humanities scholar, Simone has a particular focus on globalisation processes, the intersection of ecology and economy, and the era of the Anthropocene. Her research has received numerous awards and fellowships, among them from the Smithsonian Institution, the Science History Institute, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Renzon R. Guinto

Renzo R. Guinto is Associate Professor of Global and Planetary Health at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, National University of Singapore. He is a leading ‘pracademic’ of climate and health and a global pioneer of the field of planetary health. An adviser to the Philippine Climate Change Commission and the World Health Organization, Renzo works on various climate-health issues, such as climate impacts on mental health and climate-induced migration, among others.

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Melanie Samson

Melanie Samson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. Before academia, she worked in South African trade unions and for NGOs on women’s and informal workers’ struggle for justice. Her research arises out of and contributes to her political work with reclaimer (‘waste pickers’) organisations. Melanie's academic work focuses on the political ecology of reclaiming, the production of value by non-wage workers, and reclaimers’ struggles to redress gendered racial capitalism and achieve a just transition.

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Marissa Mika

Marissa Mika is a writer and editor living in Berkeley, California. Trained as a historian and anthropologist of medicine, science, and technology in Africa, she has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the History and Sociology of Science and a MHS in International Health from Johns Hopkins. Marissa’s first book, ‘Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda’, tells the remarkable story of the Uganda Cancer Institute.

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Maria Raquel Passos Lima

Maria Raquel Passos Lima is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, where she founded and co-coordinates ResiduaLab: Laboratory of Social Studies of Waste. Maria researches waste as an anthropological object, focusing on how its materiality intersects with urban life and cityscapes in the Global South. Her broader research interests include environmental and urban issues related to waste, toxicity, water, infrastructure, climate change, and grassroots activism.

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Julie Sze

Julie Sze is Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. Sze's research, which has been published widely, investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and urban/community health and activism. She collaborates with environmental scientists, engineers, social scientists and community-based organizers in California and New York.

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Josh Lepawsky

Josh Lepawsky is Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. He researches the connections between geography, technological systems, and their discards. Questions include: Where and how are contemporary discards made? Where do they travel and where do their effects accumulate? Who gets what discards, where, how, and under what conditions? He is also interested in how maintenance and repair might offer lessons for living well in a polluted world. 

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Jacob Doherty

Jacob Doherty specialises in urban and environmental anthropology. His research grapples with how African cities are responding to the entwined issues of economic inequality and environmental justice. He has conducted ethnographic research in Uganda, the Ivory Coast, and the USA, examining the everyday infrastructures through which urban residents construct and provision their lives, focusing particularly on waste and mobility. He is currently researching 'Everyday Mobilities in African Informal Transport Systems'.

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Haripriya Narasimhan

Haripriya Narasimhan is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Haripriya’s research interests are in medical anthropology, media anthropology, and climate change. Her fieldwork experience spans urban, rural, and tribal areas in India, including Tamil Nadu and Mumbai, Maharashtra. Connecting her research interests in health and media, Haripriya is venturing into the field of digital health. She researches health care decision-making, chronic diseases, globalisation, caste, kinship, and gender. 

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Gauri Sanjeev Pathak

Gauri Sanjeev Pathak is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist focusing on South Asia, particularly urban India. Gauri’s research interests centre on interactions between the body and its environment, globalizing processes, and consumption practices. Currently, she is researching how the environmental and health costs of rampant plastic use and disposal are experienced and comprehended in different local contexts. Previous research explored lived experiences of polycystic ovary syndrome and how marketing and consumption practices affect understandings of the body in India.

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