"I was engaged in two different projects. First, I did an ethnography of the Pan-African e-Network, a transnational network through which hospitals in India provide medical teleconsultations to health centers across Africa. The Pan-African e-Network is an integrated solution aimed at caring for patients at a distance. It is a massive infrastructure, which is also a highly political project, branded as a “shining example of South-South cooperation.” To follow this network, I have conducted research in India, Senegal, and Ethiopia. I aimed to understand how digital technologies produce new clinical spaces, and reconfigure the distribution of medical care on a global scale. I am now writing a book on this. Secondly, I have been involved in the study of a mobile health project implemented in rural Burkina Faso. This research aimed to understand how mobile health technology can lead to more equitable health systems, while also examining challenges, limitations, and unintended effects. I have been working in close collaboration with the Centre de recherche en santé de Nouna, a national health research center in Burkina Faso."
"A historical study of the emergence of the diagnostic category of autism spectrum disorder and the role of parent activists as lay experts in helping determine the course of autism research, a more sociological study of how entomologists are describing and learning to treat unexplained honey bee colony losses (formerly Colony Collapse Disorder), and currently, (with Michael Yudell and Amy Carrol-Scott) a study of what ethical research design practices should look like for autism research (and by implication research on other complex human neurodevelopmental differences)."
"As a philosopher interested in technological transformation, I enjoy struggling to trace threads that entangle: the evolution of the sciences, with the technologies that condition and result from them, and with the socio-historical ontologies that adaptively mutate in the process. This is technics as and ontologically dynamic and epistemically generative kind of socio/self writing."
"My current work examines the politics and culture of human-wildlife relations in urban settings, both as means to foster urban wildlife spaces and to understand how the blurring of human and nonhuman worlds informs environmental politics 'after nature.'"
Why Not the City?: Urban Hawk Watching and the End of Nature. Nature and Culture 12 (2), 115-136.
Much of my work has been dedicated to creating and expanding the field of mobilities research, which draws on many elements of STS in its approach to the spatial, material, infrastructural, and more-than-human elements that perform mobilities. This includes my work on the system of automobility and low-carbon transitions; the mediation of mobilities with mobile communication technologies; the restructuring of Caribbean island-space for tourism, offshore banking, and other new geographies; and the study of post-disaster humanitarian interventions and climate change adaptation in the Caribbean region.
"My main area of study is the role of emotion in professional socialization in medical education. I have projects on teaching and learning the pelvic exam through simulation, standardized patient encounters and health inequalities, and empathy."
"Doing STS at Drexel opens up the opportunity for research teams comprising of faculty, students and community partners. Our graduate curriculum also fosters team science through STS Lab classes."