Bios
Charles L. Briggs is a cultural/medical/linguistic anthropologist who has documented cholera and rabies epidemics in Venezuelan indigenous communities: Stories in the Time of Cholera and Tell Me Why My Children Died, both with Clara Mantini-Briggs.
Sharon Daniel is a digital media artist who creates interactive and participatory documentary artworks addressing issues of social, racial, and environmental injustice, with a particular focus on mass incarceration and the criminal justice system.
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz Brooklyn College, CUNY works as a media artist, curator, and writer engaged with linked social justice commitments, including COVID-19, AIDS, Black lesbian media, feminist and queer/trans film, and activist archives and collectives.
Pato Hebert serves as Chair of the Department of Art & Public Policy at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where his students have thrice nominated him for the David Payne-Carter Award for Teaching Excellence.
Tammy C. Ho is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at UC Riverside. She wrote Romancing Human Rights (2015), co-produced the Transformative Hope video series (2022), and is on the managing board of APARRI.
Cynthia Ling Lee instigates crip, queer, and feminist-of-color interventions through embodied art and scholarship. Her choreography has been presented across North America, Asia, and Europe. Recent publications include writing in the Michigan Quarterly Review and The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies. Cynthia is associate professor of Performance, Play & Design at UCSC.
Rachel C. Lee is the author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America and a professor at UCLA. Currently, her research focuses on frameworks that deepen relationality between individuals with “environmental illness” (e.g. chronic Lyme, MCS, heavy-metal intoxication) and scholarship in an anti-racist and anti-colonial vein.
Megan Moodie, a cultural anthropologist, writer, and feminist theorist, is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her recent work on disability, motherhood, and artistic practice has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hip Mama, MUTHA Magazine, and Sapiens.
Marina Peterson (University of Texas at Austin) is the author of Atmospheric Noise which traces entanglements of air and body through noise. Her current project Weathering Uncertainty composes a nervous system that stitches together the meteorological and the neurological, and in doing so taking up conceptual concerns that are central to COVID in general and long COVID specifically.
Nikita Simpson a Lecturer in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London, Nikita’s research on mental health, care, and inequality has appeared in the BMJ Global Health, the JRAI, and MAQ amongst other venues. She is preparing a manuscript titled Tension: Mental Distress and Modern Time.
This Scalar project was made possible through an award granted by the UCLA Digital Research Consortium and Scholarly Innovation Lab. Rachel is grateful for the collaborative efforts of graduate assistants Nashra Mahmood and Tianji Jiang .
