Jonathan Wald, Ph.D.
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- Full-Time Faculty, Centre for Engineering in Society
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Climate Change, Disaster Management, Anthropology of Ethics and Morality, Brazil, Conceptual History
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Biography
I am an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS), anthropology, and philosophy examining the undermining of traditional modes of science, politics, and ethics amidst the climate crisis. I've worked with the Secretary of the Environment and Sustainable Development for the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais to support disaster management and international collaborations. I have previously taught in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University.
Teaching activities
Courses
ENGR 201: Professional Practice and Responsibility
ENGR 392: Impact of Technology on Society
ENCS 333: Research Methods, Ethics, Law and Regulation for Computational Biology
ENCS 393: Social and Ethical Dimensions of Information and Communication Technology
Publications
Publications
“The Facts are Not Enough,” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, February 11, 2025. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-facts-are-not-enough
“Genocide and a Tapeworm: Flusser’s Post-Catastrophic Fabulism,” Flusser Studies 36 (2023).
“Horror,” Environmental Humanities 14, no. 2(2022): 367-370, doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712434
"Indefinite Accounting: Inventorying Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Minas Gerais, Brazil." Hot Spots, Fieldsights, June 23, 2022. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/indefinite-accounting-inventorying-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-minas-gerais-brazil
“Breaking the Cosmic Speed Limit?: A Case Study for Science and Technology Studies,” in Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding Social Science Concepts through Illustrative Vignettes, edited by Patricia Ballamingie and David Szanto (2022):doi.org/10.22215/stkt/wj22.
“A Philosophical Anthropology of Order Itself,” Science as Culture, (2021): doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2021.2012649.
“Eco-Horror: Facing Climate Change in Minas Gerais, Brazil.” Platypus: The CASTAC Blog. February 18, 2020.http://blog.castac.org/2020/02/eco-horror-facing-climate-change-in-minas-gerais-brazil/.
“Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault,” Foucault Studies 22 (January, 2017): 273-75,doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.5250.
“A Haptic Anthropology of Science (Myers’s Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter),” Current Anthropology 57, no. 4 (August 1, 2016): 533–34, doi:10.1086/687564.
“Two Models of Culture, Two Models of Toleration,” Pensées Canadiennes 11 (2013): 88–102.