Selected Publications
See CV for complete list of publications and presentations
2017. "Resonant Worlds: Cultivating Proximal Encounters in Planetary Science." American Ethnologist. [PDF]
Read a conversation about the article on the Savage Minds blog.
2017. "Extra-terra Incognita: Martian Maps in the Digital Age." Social Studies of Science. [PDF]
2016. Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Duke University Press.
2015. "Beyond the Anthropocene: Un-Earthing an Epoch." Environment and Society: Advances in Research 6(1). With V. Olson. [PDF]
2015. "The Greatest Missions Never Flown: Anticipatory Discourse and the Projectory in Technological Communities." Technology and Culture 56 (1). With J. Vertesi. [PDF]
2014. "Earth as Analog: The Interdisciplinary Debate and Astronaut Training that took Earth to the Moon." Astropolitics 12(2-3). [PDF]
2010. "The Problem With Pluto: Conflicting Cosmologies and the Classification of Planets." Social Studies of Science 40(2). [PDF]
Forthcoming. "Gestures of Cosmic Relation and the Search for Another Earth." Environmental Humanities.
2017. "Resonant Worlds: Cultivating Proximal Encounters in Planetary Science." American Ethnologist. [PDF]
Read a conversation about the article on the Savage Minds blog.
2017. "Extra-terra Incognita: Martian Maps in the Digital Age." Social Studies of Science. [PDF]
2016. Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds. Duke University Press.
2015. "Beyond the Anthropocene: Un-Earthing an Epoch." Environment and Society: Advances in Research 6(1). With V. Olson. [PDF]
2015. "The Greatest Missions Never Flown: Anticipatory Discourse and the Projectory in Technological Communities." Technology and Culture 56 (1). With J. Vertesi. [PDF]
2014. "Earth as Analog: The Interdisciplinary Debate and Astronaut Training that took Earth to the Moon." Astropolitics 12(2-3). [PDF]
2010. "The Problem With Pluto: Conflicting Cosmologies and the Classification of Planets." Social Studies of Science 40(2). [PDF]
Forthcoming. "Gestures of Cosmic Relation and the Search for Another Earth." Environmental Humanities.
Invited Presentations
Transmediale 2013
2017. "How Planets Become Worlds and How Worlds Become Futures." Keynote at the 24th Annual Image Symposium, CA2M, Madrid, Spain.
2017. " 'You Are There': 3-D Mars, The Planetary Imagination, and Being on Other Worlds." Department of Anthropology, Rice University
Listen to an interview with me on Rice's Cultures of Energy podcast
2016. "Feeling at Home in the Universe: Exoplanet Astronomy and the Search for Another Earth." Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.
2016. "Alien and Familiar Worlds: Earth, Mars, and the Making of Planetary Place." Program on Remote Sensing, Virginia Tech.
2015. "The Planetary Imagination: Worlding Practices and Extraterrestrial Mappings." Anthropology Speaker Series, University of Virginia.
2013. "Pluto Y U No Planet: Opening Ceremony for Transmediale 2013." Berlin.
2013. "The Desert as a Schizophrenic Space: Warfare and Spacefaring in the American West." Transmediale 2013. Berlin.
2011. "Across the Universe: Towards an Understanding of Interplanetary Networks." Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania.
2017. " 'You Are There': 3-D Mars, The Planetary Imagination, and Being on Other Worlds." Department of Anthropology, Rice University
Listen to an interview with me on Rice's Cultures of Energy podcast
2016. "Feeling at Home in the Universe: Exoplanet Astronomy and the Search for Another Earth." Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.
2016. "Alien and Familiar Worlds: Earth, Mars, and the Making of Planetary Place." Program on Remote Sensing, Virginia Tech.
2015. "The Planetary Imagination: Worlding Practices and Extraterrestrial Mappings." Anthropology Speaker Series, University of Virginia.
2013. "Pluto Y U No Planet: Opening Ceremony for Transmediale 2013." Berlin.
2013. "The Desert as a Schizophrenic Space: Warfare and Spacefaring in the American West." Transmediale 2013. Berlin.
2011. "Across the Universe: Towards an Understanding of Interplanetary Networks." Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania.
Other Writing
2017. "We need to stop talking about outer space as a 'frontier.'" on Slate.
2016. "What's So Special about Another Earth." Op-Ed for The New York Times.
2016. "The Second Project Project: The Security to Feel Insecure." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
2015. "Martian Science vs. 'The Martian.'" Written for Motherboard, Vice News's science website.
2015. "Pluto: Unexplored, Exploring, Explored." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
2014. "McConaugheys in Space." Cultural comparison of Interstellar and Contact written for Motherboard, Vice News's science website.
2013. "1977 Called. They Want Their Headline Back." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
2012. "Anthropology and Outer Space." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
2016. "What's So Special about Another Earth." Op-Ed for The New York Times.
2016. "The Second Project Project: The Security to Feel Insecure." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
2015. "Martian Science vs. 'The Martian.'" Written for Motherboard, Vice News's science website.
2015. "Pluto: Unexplored, Exploring, Explored." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
2014. "McConaugheys in Space." Cultural comparison of Interstellar and Contact written for Motherboard, Vice News's science website.
2013. "1977 Called. They Want Their Headline Back." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
2012. "Anthropology and Outer Space." Blog post for the Committee on Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing.
