Myers, Natasha - Anthropology

Submitted by root on Thu, 2010/06/24 - 4:52pm
Personal Information
First Name: 
Natasha
Last Name: 
Myers
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Anthropology
University Affiliation: 
York University
Phone: 
4167362100
Extension: 
22394
Email Address: 
nmyers@yorku.ca
Area of Research
Discipline: 
Anthropology
Subject: 
Biology
Technology
Time Period: 
20th Century
Current
Specific Area of Research: 
Anthropology of science and technology; feminist science studies; anthropology of the senses; pedagogy and visualization; art and science; plants, ecologies, and more-than-human others
Academics
PHD Program: 
History, Anthropology, Science/Technology/Society
PHD University: 
M.I.T.
PHD Date: 
2007
Major Publications: 
(forthcoming 2013) ‘Modeling Molecular Machines,’ in The New Representation in Scientific Practice, edited by Michael Lynch, Steve Woolgar, Janet Vertesi, and Catelijne Coopmans (MIT Press) (2012) ‘Dance Your PhD: Embodied Animations, Body Experiments and the Affective Entanglements of Life Science Research’, Body & Society 18 (1): 151-189. Special issue on Animation and Automation, edited by Jackie Stacey and Lucy Suchman. Myers, Natasha (2008) 'Molecular Embodiments and the Body-work of Modeling in Protein Crystallography', Social Studies of Science 38/2: 163-199. Myers, Natasha (2006) 'Animating Mechanism: Animations and the Propagation of Affect in the Lively Arts of Protein Modeling', Science Studies 19/2: Special Issue on the Future of Feminist Technoscience: 6-30. Myers, Natasha (forthcoming 2008) 'Molecular Machines: Structural Biology, Biological Engineers and the Materialized Refiguration of Proteins', in Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon (ed), Thinking with Donna Haraway (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Myers, Natasha (2006) 'Animating Mechanism: Animation and the Propagation of Affect in the Lively Arts of Protein Modeling', Science Studies 19/2: Special Issue on the Future of Feminist Technoscience: 6-30. Myers, Natasha (2005) 'Visions for Embodiment in Technoscience', in Tripp, Peggy and Linda Muzzin (eds), Teaching as Activism: Equity Meets Environmentalism (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press): 255-67.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Society for Social Studies of Science; Canadian Anthropological Association; American Anthropological Association
Courses Taught: 
Science as Practice and Culture; Technoscientific Cultures (Grad course); Development of Theory in Anthropology; Anthropology of the Senses; Rendering Life Itself