Presentation
I hold the Canada Research Chair in Science and Society at the University of Ottawa where I am also an Associate Professor of Sociology. I am a critical and empirical sociologist who studies and intervenes into science-society tensions that erupt around technologies–GMOs, big data & AI—and their governance. I do policy relevant research which has involved advising government and serving on expert panels like the Council of Canadian Academies (link to report). I have published my work in a variety of interdisciplinary journals such as Science as Culture, Science Communication, Journal of Responsible Innovation, Big Data & Society.
I am currently working on my second book on artificial intelligence (University of Chicago Press, Co-Opting AI Series) as well as a book on gender norms in the field of agroforestry. I am at CSI to collaborate and learn from colleagues in these two areas: big data and AI, as well as feminist technoscience studies.
Publications
Immaculate Conception of Data: Agribusiness, activists, and their shared politics of the future (2022, MQUP)
Harvesting Value, Big Data & Society
Big Data Meets Big Ag, Science as Culture