In my second year as a doctoral student from the Drama department, I became a 2020-2021 Newkirk Fellow with the Research Justice Shop and took part in the COVID-19 Narrative Project. In pre-COVID times, to get from Arts to Social Ecology on UCI campus, one needs to cross an earthquake-safe bridge to pass through Humanities, […]

Time is always an important and challenging factor in a research project. Especially in a partnership that brings multiple people and organizations together, researchers need to be open and adaptable about when things happen, in what order, and for how long. Some contexts, however, have timelines of their own that cannot be ignored. In the […]

Throughout my training as a social scientist, I have returned to the question of how community activists use science and technology to address public problems. My projects have focused on do-it-yourself mesh networks in German refugee camps but also community archiving in the global anti-plastics movement. What connects these cases of civic technoscience are the […]