Danya Glabau ,
PhD

  • Industry Assistant Professor

  • Director, Science and Technology Studies minor

  • Director, Feminism and STEM minor

  • Director, Ethics and Technology curriculum

  • Affiliated Faculty, Department of Anthropology

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Danya Glabau is a medical anthropologist and STS scholar researching health activism, the medical economy, and how human bodies become valuable data. She directs the Science and Technology Studies (STS) minor, the Feminism and STEM minor, and the Ethics and Technology undergraduate curriculum at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She also teaches in the Integrated Design & Media Master's program and the Human-Centered Technology, Innovation & Design PhD program. She is Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Anthropology. She earned her PhD from the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell University.

Her first book, Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care (2022, University of Minnesota Press), examined how food allergy activists get involved in scientific research and political advocacy, and how race, class, and gender shape their advocacy goals. Her second book, Cyborg (2024, MIT Press; co-authored with Laura Forlano, Northeastern University), offers a 21st century introduction to cyborg theory in contexts like work, medicine and disability, art and design, and feminist theory. Her latest research investigates how new parents use parenting advice, with a focus on how digital resources, apps, and devices shape modern ideas about what makes a “good” parent.

 

Research Interests
Science and Technology Studies (STS), Feminist Science Studies, Medical Anthropology, Digital Health, Food Allergies, Care Work

Cornell University 2016
PhD, Science and Technology Studies

Cornell University 2014
MA, Science and Technology Studies

Cornell University 2007
BA, Biological Sciences

 


Books

Cyborg. MIT University Press. February 2024. Co-authored with Laura Forlano. 

Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care. University of Minnesota Press. May 2022.

Selected Articles

Food Allergy and the Hygienic Sublime. 2019. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.

Hate in Social Virtual Reality. 2018. White paper. Center for Technology and Society, Anti-Defamation League.

The Moral Life of Epinephrine in the United States. 2016. Medicine Anthropology Theory.

Selected Essays and Reviews

Who Will Control the Exowomb? 2022. Grow by Gingko.

Mom versus the Experts. 2022. Dilettante Army.

Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population: An epistolary review essay. 2022. American Anthropologist. Co-authored with Nayantara Sheoran Appleton.

Covid-19 and the Politics of Care. February 2021. Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, Social Science Research Council.

Discipline, Method, and Theory at the Interface of Race and Technology. March 2020. Biosocieties.

The Dark Matter of Digital Health. April 2020. Public Books.

Bill of Health. 2019. Real Life Magazine.

Sins of the Mother. 2018. Real Life Magazine.

Feminists Write the Anthropocene: Three Tales of Possibility in Late Capitalism. 2017. Journal of Cultural Economy.

Conflicting Assumptions: The Meaning of Price in the Pharmaceutical Economy. 2017. Science As Culture.

Fancy Feast. 2017. Real Life Magazine.

Necessary Purity. 2017. Real Life Magazine.

Exhibitions

Wakanda University, Co-Curated with Elizabeth Chin, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, 2018; Vancouver, BC, 2019

 


Curricular Development challenge Fund (CDCF), New York University, 2021

Conference Travel Bursary, Society for the Social History of Medicine, 2016

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Finalist, 2015

Student Travel Award, Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), 2014

Conference Travel Grant, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), 2014

Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2014

Graduate Student Humanities Travel Research Grant, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2014

Provost Diversity Fellowship, Cornell University, 2014

SUNY Diversity Fellowship, Cornell University, 2010-2011


Graduate Paper Prize, Science Technology and Medicine (STM) section of the Society for Medical Anthropology, 2014

John S. Knight Award for Writing Exercises and Assignments, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines, Cornell University, 2013

The Abraham ‘Zito’ Boczkowski Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, 2012


Editorial Boards

Science, Technology, and Human Values Editorial Board, Member, 2022 - present

Feminist Anthropology (journal) Editorial Board, Founding Member, 2019 - present

Professional Organization Leadership

Society for Medical Anthropology Executive Board, Member-At-Large, 2019 - 2022

Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM) section of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), Chair, 2016 - 2018

Science, Technology, and Medicine (STM) section of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), Secretary, 2014-2016

Advisory Boards

Data & Society Health and Data Advisory Board, Member, 2020 - 2022