professor, anthropologist, science and technology studies scholar
Academic background
Education
McGill University, York University, MIT
Academic work
Discipline
social and cultural anthropology, science and technology studies
Notable works
Rendering Life Molecular
Notable ideas
Planthropocene
Natasha Myers is an associate professor of anthropology at York University.[1] In 2016 she coined the term "Planthroposcene".[2][3] Her first book, Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter is an ethnography of protein crystallographers and discusses how scientists teach one another how to sense the molecular realm.[4] This book won the 2016 Robert Merton Book Prize from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.[5] She received her BSc in biology from McGill University, a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies and her PhD in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology & Society (HASTS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]
^Natasha Myers (2018) “How to grow livable worlds: Ten not-so-easy steps,” in The World to Come, edited by Kerry Oliver Smith, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, p. 53-63.
^skat25 (2017-11-28). "Interview with Natasha Myers". Official website of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section. Retrieved 2019-05-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
