Costelloe-KuehnMemo+3

__Biosketch for Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, 2020 (PhD Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2012)__
Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Media Studies at at Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, New York, USA. Previously, he was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at Vassar College, where he also received his undergraduate degree. He is co-director of the program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and co-editor of Cultural Anthropology, the journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. An anthropologist of technoscience, Brandon's current research focuses on the contemporary technologies, culture, and political economy of "alternative" media and its relation to environmental justice struggles. His training and research in STS has provided a critical background and a vantage point from which to explore both the material and semiotic aspects of local community-based processes and products and the surrounding politics of expertise and knowledge/power. He has advanced methodology in action-research through his work with organizations such as the Sanctuary for Independent Media, Witness, the Deccan Development Society, and the Catapult Arts Caravan, while contributing to social-theoretical conceptions of community, participation, and social movements. He has documented the unparalleled opportunities presented by the growth of "alternative" media practices in the 21st century as well as the need to link up with a wide range of social movements. His most recent work is Mediating Participation: Building Diversity into Community in Global Alternative Media (University of California Press 2020), an ethnographic account of the expanding and heterogeneous network of "alternative" media. His other recent ethnographic work on permaculture shares a focus on the dissemination of local knowledges globally and the link-making necessary for knowledge development and exchange. It is is based in ongoing involvement with “transdisciplinary” and trans-national groups of food-producers, environmental scientists, activists, and educators. Continuing his experiments with the presentation of insights and data from fieldwork in multiple genres and art-forms, Brandon is currently working on a collaborative ethnographic film on permaculture and the internet-mediated and face-to-face community centered around World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF).

__Keyword Biosketch for Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, 2020__
Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Professor of Anthropology and Media Studies. Academic Interests: environmental justice, alternative media, the global justice movement, cultural studies of modern science and technology.