Jordan Thomas is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Fellow in the STS Program at Harvard Kennedy School. His research examines how people experience, conceptualize, and navigate climate change, as well as the social, political, and economic structures that shape its uneven impacts. Methodologically, he draws on literary techniques to translate social theory into character-driven narratives. His current project explores the making and remaking of American capitalism by tracing the history of the railroads through the lives of a contemporary community of outlaws who illicitly inhabit them.
Roberto J. González is a professor of anthropology at San José State University and president-elect of the American Ethnological Society. His books include Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network, and most recently, War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future. He is currently completing a book on algorithmic policing in America.
