Researchers
Priscila Santos Da Costa
Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Priscila completed her bachelor’s in Social Sciences at the State University of São Paulo, Brazil, and her PhD (2018) in Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews. She has conducted fieldwork in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby and her research focused on the state, bureaucracy, and religious ideology. Since then, she has begun undertaking a new ethnographic project in Brazil on the sociotechnical dimensions of efforts to develop and preserve the Amazon region.
Steffen Dalsgaard
Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen
Steffen Dalsgaard (PhD, Aarhus University) is professor in the anthropology of digital technology in the Business IT Department at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has carried out 2+ years of ethnographic fieldwork in Papua New Guinea about a range of topics including canoe craftsmanship and tradition, state and leadership, and perceptions of nature and value seen through the technologies that calculate and commodify carbon. His publications have appeared in journals such as Anthropological Forum, Ethnos, HAU, Social Analysis and Social Anthropology. He is the editor with Morten Nielsen of the volume Time and the Field (Berghahn 2015).