Mallory James
Funktionen
Raum: Fo/0/23
Telefon: +49 3461 46-2545
E-Mail funktional: mallory.jamesnoSpam@hs-merseburg.de
E-Mail persönlich: mallory.jamesnoSpam@hs-merseburg.de
Sprechzeiten:
By appointment
Tätigkeitsbereiche
Meine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der Energieanthropologie, den Sozialwissenschaften des Ingenieurwesens, den Technikstudien und der Wirtschaftsanthropologie. Vor meiner Tätigkeit an der Hochschule habe ich über australisches sauberes Kohle-Engineering und die Institutionalisierung ethischer Verantwortung in den Ingenieurberufen publiziert.
Cultural anthropology in relation to energy, sustainability, and climate change topics; Critical theory; Labor, professions, capitalism; Engineering studies and engineering ethics; Anthropological, historical, and feminist studies of technoscience; Corporate Social Responsibility; Energy and research policy and governance; Oceania and Asia-Pacific
Publikationen
Ausgewählte Publikationen und Referenzen
forthcoming with R. Müller. Co-Constructing the ERC Proposal: Grant-Writing-Support, Value Conflicts and the Formation of a Domain of Expertise. Science and Public Policy.
2026. First author with C. Mitcham. Beyond ecological modernization: how to live well in the anthropocene? Journal of Responsible Innovation, 13(1). 10.1080/23299460.2026.2625523
2025. First author with H.A. Love, G. Adamson, I. Mareels, D.S. Schiff, K. Schmitt. Special Issue Editorial: Extraction by Design — AI, Value, and the Future of Work. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. December 2025. 10.1109/TTS.2025.3630817
2025. Class, Critique, and Containment: Arcs of Historical Change in Australian Engineering Ethics Codes. Engineering Studies. 21 October 2025. 10.1080/19378629.2025.2556378
2025. Into the Multiverse: Strategies for Teaching Social Studies of Energy at a Technical University. IEEE Technology & Society Magazine 44(1): March 2025. 101-108. doi: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3539203
2024. People Capture: Aspirational Knowledge Workers and Recursive Complicity in Australian Carbon Capture and Storage. Social Analysis 68(4): December 2024. 57-75. doi.org/10.3167/sa.2024.680404
2024. with H.A. Love, G. Adamson, J. Lajoie, I. Mareels, Z. Pearl, D.S. Schiff, K. Schmitt, T. Arohi, J. Buchanan, S. Camaréna, M. Kaevats, J. Reynolds, P. Albuquerque, J. Havens, D. Chacón-Hurtado, S. Lahiri, A. Ocal, A. Orchard, M. Rigby, R. Sherlock, V. Sundararaj, Q. Zhu. The Future of Work in the Age of Automation: Proceedings of a Workshop on Norbert Wiener’s Legacy in the 21st Century. 13 December 2024. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2024.3476041.
Lebenslauf
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 11.12.2020
M.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 20.03.2015
B.A., Anthropology, Princeton University, 03.06.2008
Professional Experience
Visiting Scientist & Lecturer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, 01.10.2024-30.09.2026
Research Associate, Technical University of Munich, Professorship of Science & Technology Policy, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, 01.12.2020-30.09.2024
Lecturer, University of Chicago, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, 1.10.2016-31.12.2016 and 1.10.2018-30.6.2019
Writing Intern [Instructor], University of Chicago Writing Program, 20.03.2015-13.06.2015, 17.9.2016-10.12.2016, 22.9.2018-15.12.2018, 1.4.2019- 15.6.2019
Social Research Trainee, Science into Society Group, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Queensland, Australia, 01.09.2011-31.06.2012