Dr. Timothy Y. Loh is an anthropologist of science and technology and a Cotsen Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows. At Princeton University, he is also a Lecturer in Anthropology and the Humanities Council. Bringing together medical anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and science and technology studies, his ethnographic research examines language, religion, and sociality in deaf and signing worlds spanning Jordan, Singapore, and the United States. His first book project, provisionally entitled Assistive Modernity: Deafness and Technology in Contemporary Jordan, explores how “assistive” technologies for deaf people in Jordan, like cochlear implants and sign language-centered mobile applications, have shaped and continue to shape disability’s contours and manifestations in the Arabic-speaking Middle East/Southwest Asia and North Africa. He holds a PhD and SM in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MA in Arab Studies and BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Dr. Kendra Kintzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, where her work examines how energy infrastructure and environmental media are changing landscapes and livelihoods in Southwest Asia. Through ethnographic engagement in Jordan and across the region, her research looks at how decarbonization is mediated through uneven urban and rural environments. A key piece of her work focuses on questions of climate and environmental justice, and how evolving practices of social mobilization reveal alternative visions of collective climate futures. She is trained as a political ecologist and digital media scholar, and draws on feminist, decolonial, and critical political economy approaches to ground her work.

Dr. Sophia Goodfriend is an anthropologist whose research examines the impact of automation on military conflict. Her first academic book project is an ethnographic account of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) has impacted what it means to wage and live with war in Israel and Palestine. Alongside her academic work, Dr. Goodfriend works as a writer and civil society consultant. Dr. Goodfriend received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Duke University, an MA in social sciences from the University of Chicago, and was previously a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative.

Dr. Samer Abboud is Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. He is the author of "Syria" (Polity, 2018) and the forthcoming "Betrayal of the Homeland: Disloyal Subjects in Wartime Syria" (Columbia University Press). He is the editor of the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.