Editor-in-Chief
Vivette García-Deister is a Professor of the Faculty of Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her research focuses on the epistemologies of biomedical and forensic genetics, as informed by ethnographic methods, transnational history, and the philosophy of science in practice. She is interested in collaborative research, interdisciplinarity, public STS scholarship, and the impact of scientific infrastructures and practices on issues of racism, health, and justice. Vivette is a Tier 2 member of Mexico’s National Research System. Her work has been published in academic journals and presses both in the global north and in Latin America, and in non-academic spaces such as SLATE Future Tense, Este País, and Letras Libres. Vivette is the 2023-28 Editor-in-Chief of Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society.
Associate Editors
Luis Reyes-Galindo is a post-doctoral researcher in the sociology of science (PhD, Cardiff University) in the Global Epistemologies and Ontologies of Science (GEOS) project at Wageningen University. He received the Mexican National University’s J. M. Lozano Medal for his undergraduate work in Casimir effect physics, is a former British Academy Post-Doctoral Researcher and has held academic positions in Mexico, Brazil, the UK and the Netherlands. He is a member of Conacyt’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Level 1). His research focuses on scientific and academic communication (open access publishing), trust and epistemic fragmentation in science, science policymaking in Latin America, the sociology of theoretical physics, big data cultures, fringe science and scientific populism.
Raquel Velho is Assistant Professor in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) and associate researcher at the Department of Science & Technology Policy at Unicamp (Brazil). She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from University College London (UK), a MS in Science, Technology, Medicine and Society from Imperial College London (UK), and a BA in Sociology from Université de Nantes (France). Raquel has published articles in English and Portuguese, on the topics of transit accessibility, disability, and infrastructure building, and works at the intersection of disability studies and science and technology studies. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Transportation Science & Technology, Social Inclusion, among others. She is member of the editorial board of Catalyst-Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Alter-European Journal of Disability Studies and of The International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Marko Monteiro has a PhD in Social Sciences (University of Campinas, 2005). He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin (2006–2008) and the University of Campinas (2009), both in Science, Technology and Society. He is currently Associate Professor at the Science and Technology Policy Department, University of Campinas, Brazil. His research interests lie in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology of Science and Technology. He has worked with topics such as sociotechnical controversies; ethnographies of interdisciplinary scientific practice; and visual representation in science. He is currently conducting research related to the governance of science in Brazil, especially focusing on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and the Brazilian response to Covid-19. He is also the leader of GEICT – Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science and Technology (https://geict.wordpress.com/).
María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra is a medical anthropologist and an anthropologist of science with a focus on ethnographic research. She addresses interactions of health, technology, and the body in highly bio-medicalized and technological contexts in Latin America. She recently finished a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Amsterdam with a project that addresses the role of judicial and humanitarian forensic knowledge in co-producing collective accounts of violence in Colombia. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Vienna, in the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology in the group of Medical Anthropology and Global Health, where she works on the search for forcibly disappeared persons conducted by people who are living in exile as practices of collective care in war-ridden contexts in Latin America.
José Ragas is a historian of science and technology (STS) and holds a PhD from the University of California, Davis. He is Assistant Professor in the Instituto de Historia at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Prior to this, he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and a Lecturer in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. He is currently working on his book manuscript about the emergence of an early surveillance society in post-colonial Peru. His next project studies the ice trade routes along the Pacific Rim – between Alaska and Patagonia – on the eve of the global warming era in the late nineteenth century. His work has been featured in Slate, Perspectives on History, and Harvard International Review, among others.
Book Review Editors
Marina Fontolan is a Brazilian interested in all things technology, a Doctor in science and technology policy, and a postdoc researcher at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), with a grant by São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp – process nº 2022/07655-1). Their dissertation is on the role of localization in the video game industry and their current research investigates serious games and knowledge creation in Latin America. They have a B.S. in History and a M.S. in Cultural History. They truly believe that Latin America is an amazing, but little known region of the world. Their role as a Book Review Editor in Tapuya is to help disclose the complex and amazing research done there, specially regarding technologies and cultural industries.
Nathalia Hernández-Vidal is a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Texas and a researcher in the working group of Latin American Political Ecology from the South, Abya Yala, of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago, and an MA and a BA in Philosophy from Universidad de los Andes. Drawing from the tradition of feminist intersectionality, her work examines (i) how agri-environmental injustices are produced by and reproduce colonial patterns of racial, gender, and class inequalities, and (ii) the alternative pathways created by Indigenous, Black, and Mestizx communities who are subject to them. Besides her article publications in English and Spanish, Dr. Hernández Vidal is currently working on her first book entitled Regenerating Mobilizations: Coloniality, Environmental Justice, and People’s Power.
Julia Sushytska (Ph.D., Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook) is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Occidental College. Her areas of expertise are Ancient Greek and 20th century European and Eastern European philosophy. Her research focuses on metics, or those who place themselves in-between major cultures, languages, or ethnicities. Together with Alisa Slaughter, she recently translated and edited A Spy for an Unknown Country – a collection of essays by a Soviet-era Georgian philosopher, Merab Mamardashvili (Ibidem Press, 2020).
Iñaki Goñi is a cultural psychologist and STS researcher. As a lecturer and researcher at the Engineering Design Initiative, Universidad Católica de Chile (DILAB UC), he researches the intersection between design, engineering education and responsible innovation. His current work centres around technology and democracy and how institutions design public dialogue around novel technological developments. He has worked in large public engagement initiatives, such as Tenemos Que Hablar de Chile.
Senior Advisor
James Griesemer, International Senior Advisor, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, Population Biology, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is also a member of the the Center for Science and Innovation Studies and the Center for Population Biology. He is a Past-President of the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of KLI in Klosterneuberg, Austria. His primary interests are philosophical, historical, and social understanding of the biological sciences, especially evolutionary biology, genetics, developmental biology, ecology and systematics. He has written on a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy and social studies of biology, including models and practices in museum-based natural history, laboratory-based ecology, units and levels of inheritance and selection in evolutionary biology, and visual representation in embryology and genetics. His current projects include studies with collaborator Carlos Andrés Barragán of the resituation of scientific knowledge about human population genomics (PI, NSF grant SES-1849307-0) and a sociological study with collaborators Elihu Gerson, Ed Wilson and Carol Bromer of the Science of Purpose Project (PI, John Templeton Foundation grant 62385). He is writing a book on the topic of reproduction in the evolutionary process.
Senior Advisor Emerita
Sandra Harding is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and in the Gender Studies Department, at the University of California, Los Angeles. She taught for two decades in the Philosophy Department and directed the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Delaware before moving to UCLA in 1996. She directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women 1996- 2000, and co-edited the journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (2000–2005). In 2013 she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Award by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) for distinguished contributions to the field. She is the author or editor of seventeen books and special journal issues including Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research (2015), The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader (ed., 2011), and Sciences From Below: Feminism, Postcolonialisms, and Modernities (2008).
Managing Editor Latin America
Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza is professor and researcher in the International Relations Department at Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), Mexico. She has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico. Her research focuses on the relationship between hybridity and liminal states, particularly in Gothic productions. Since 2022, she is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores – candidate level (National System of Researchers, Mexico) at the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología - CONACYT (National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico). She has published several chapters in books such as Más Allá del Texto: Cultura Digital y Nuevas Tecnologías (2016); La Creación Hoy: Perspectivas Posthumanistas (2018), From Human to Post-Human Security in Latin America: Some Reflections and Cases from Across the Region (2021); Teorías de Relaciones Internacionales en el Siglo XXI: Interpretaciones Críticas desde México (2021). Her latest research “Giving Satanic and Divine Patriarchy a Run for Their Money: Hybridity, Liminality, and Female Empowerment in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” will be published this year in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Hell’s Under New Management (Lexington Books).
Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief
Rinette Riande is a Philosophy student, currently working on her thesis which focuses on cyberpersons (or virtual persons) from a metaphysics perspective, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her academic interests encompass topics such as personal identity, applied ethics, social studies of science and technology, and philosophical and scientific communication. She is particularly motivated by the existing connection between technology and ethics. She has worked as research assistant and has participated briefly in other journals, developing her taste for accuracy and style. On a personal note, she enjoys friendly intellectual debates, learning, graphic design, and being in touch with the local music scene, but also strives to keep an active lifestyle practicing aerial dance and walking around Mexico’s historical and cultural sites.
Assistant Managing Editor
Diana Lizbeth Guerrero-Mora is a M.A. student in Political Science, International and European Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. She holds a BA in International Relations from Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), Mexico. Her areas of interest and research are decolonial studies, decolonial feminisms, and postcolonialism.
Site Manager Tapuya.La
Ángel Alberto Carrasco-Robles holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP). His areas of interest are extractivist practices, environmental politics, and decolonial approaches including the work of Viveiros de Castro.
Chief Financial Officer
Leandro Rodriguez Medina is a Professor at the Department of Sociology at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, Mexico. Since 2011, he has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores – Level II (National System of Researchers, Mexico) at the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología – CONACYT (National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico). He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (2017-2022). His empirical research focuses on the international circulation of social sciences knowledge, the social aspects of diseases (zika and Covid-19), and the transformation of the urban space through culture.