SSI Current Participants

James Babbitt is a PhD student in Anthropology at Washington University in St Louis. His current research focuses on the evaluative practices of non-farmers in the production of robotic milking systems and the impact of this technology on the labor and lives of dairy farmers. Before attending graduate school he worked on organic farms in Maine for two years.

Bradley M. Jones is a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. His research explores alternative agriculture, environmental social movements, solidarity economies, and neo-agrarianism in the United States, with a particular interest in young and beginning farmers. His research, reviews, and encyclopedia entries have appeared in CuiZine: the Journal of Canadian Food Culture; Food, Culture, and Society; Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture; Culture and Agriculture; and Gastronomica; among others.

Andie Thompson has an interdisciplinary background in anthropology, clinical research, and public health nutrition. The cumulative effect is a propensity for the STS perspective and an interest in human-microbe relations, antimicrobial resistance, and exploring entanglements involving science, policy, and the food industry. The focus of her work is the future and the scientists whose research helps to shape it. She is currently pursuing a Research Master’s in Social Science at the University of Amsterdam.

Fenneke Wekker works as a lecturer and PhD-candidate at the Sociology department of the University of Amsterdam. Her ethnographic research focuses on mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, and feelings of home in urban settings. Among other publications, she co-edited special issue ‘Homing the Dutch’ for the journal Home Cultures. Furthermore, she published articles on feelings of home in Dutch cauliflower-neighborhoods. Recently, her first book called ‘Top Down Community Building and the Politics of Inclusion’, was published by Palgrave McMillan.