Here are all the exciting things we have accomplished this year!
Olivia Leonard presented at James Madison University’s annual College of Arts and Letters Undergraduate Research Symposium in March! Her presentation was titled “By Women for Womxn: How Gendered Microbiome FemTech Companies are Capitalizing on the Promise of Intersectionality.”
Olivia presented her research once again at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology Research Symposium in April.
Dr. Tracy gave a presentation at the University of Sussex in March of 2024 titled: The Vitality of Microbial Labor, Invited Keynote for Marginalization and the Microbe Workshop.
Drs. Howes-Mischel and Tracy published: Making gendered care between porous and partible bodies, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (AAA-CASCA), Interembodiment, Toronto, Canada, November 2023.
Drs. Howes-Mischel and Tracy published: What the “Fem” in FemTech affords: thinking with the not-yet-realized possibilities of the gendered human microbiome, Affordances for World Building: Expanded Applications and Critical Interventions (closed panel), Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Honolulu, Hawai’i, November 2023
We moved into our new lab space in Sheldon Hall at the beginning of the fall semester this year!
