Kwame Edwin Otu (PhD) is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia (USA). He is also the Guerrant Assistant Professor of Public Health at UVA’s Center for Global Health Equity. He is the author of Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (University of California Press, 2022). Currently, Professor Otu is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. You can find his writings in Feminist Africa, Journal of Critical Ethnic Studies, Sexualities, Body and Religion, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Journal of Queer World-Making etc.

Diana Pardo Pedraza (she/hers/ella) is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. Her ethnographic research in rural Colombia considers (de)militarized landscapes, post-conflict economics, environmental politics, and multispecies relations of aid and care. Professor Pardo Pedraza is currently working on her book manuscript, Landscapes of Suspicion: Minefields, Peace Laboratories, and the Ecologies of (Post)War in Colombia, an ethnography of humanitarian efforts to clear and liberate territories occupied by the threat of improvised landmines. Her work has been published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society and Environment & Planning D: Society & Space and is forthcoming in Environmental Humanities, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience, and Critical Ethnic Studies Journal. At GWU, Professor Pardo Pedraza teaches courses on topics ranging from environmental politics to feminist science and technology studies and multispecies ethnography.

Kat Poje is a doctoral candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University. Her work focuses on the role of technology in relationships of violence and care across species. Her dissertation examines the development of animal euthanasia from the 19th century to the present, tracking how killing became an ethical imperative for animal advocates, and how animal advocates attempted to materialize a suffering-free death through technological innovation. Her work has been supported by the Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship at North Carolina State University; the Richardson Dilworth Fellowship for Law, Politics, and Reform at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia; and the Charles Warren Center for American Studies Research Grant Harvard University. She graduated from Haverford College in 2016.

Monique Scott, PhD, is the Director of Museum Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She is an anthropologist that specializes in the representation of race in museums, particularly representations of Africa and people of African descent, the basis for her 2007 book Rethinking Evolution in the Museum: Envisioning African Origins. After serving as head of cultural education at the American Museum of Natural History for ten years, Monique joined Bryn Mawr College in 2015 to found the College’s Museum Studies program. At Bryn Mawr, Monique teaches about Africana studies, visual studies and museum anthropology; and uses Bryn Mawr’s robust collection of African objects to teach and curate campus exhibitions. Monique is a Consulting Scholar for the African Section at the Penn Museum and served on the curatorial advisory team responsible for the renovation and reinstallation of the Penn Museum permanent African galleries, which opened in the fall of 2019. Monique also co-curated the 2019 temporary exhibition “Colored People Time: Quotidian Pasts” at the Penn Institute of Contemporary Art, an exhibition that highlighted her archival research on the history of the Penn Museum’s Africa Collections. Monique also serves on the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s African-American Collections Committee, is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History and is a Curatorial Associate at the Yale Peabody Museum.

I am an anthropologist of science and technology. I examine the cultural, political, and historical dimensions of how people produce knowledge to explain the world ("science"). I also look at how people invent, innovate, subvert, undermine, and repurpose technology. I have lived in Southeast Asia, East Africa, Europe, and North America. I am Malaysian, and this is reflected in the multiple intersecting identities I inhabit.

I am currently the 2021-2023 Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College in Pennsylvania (Lenapehoking), USA. I am also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

My book project is a historically informed ethnography of various human-rodent encounters in zoological research, animal training, and pest management schemes in Tanzania. This project explores how more-than-human encounters in East Africa are crucial sites for generating theories and critiques that offer what Sylvia Wynter calls counterhumanist visions of being "human" in the 21st-century.