Jennifer J. Sterling - Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production

is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, in the Department of Human Ecology and the Department of Animal Science. His work frequently engages questions of materiality, legibility, and political ontology. His research examines the role of measurement and metrics in the ordering of social, economic, and environmental systems and the limits and implications of quantification.

is a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Universitys Berman Institute of Bioethics. Her research focuses on wearable fitness technologies, the ethics of obesity prevention, and feminist approaches to health research.

holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Biogovernance, Law and Society at University of Waterloo. She is also Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at Australian National University. She is the author ofTesting for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport(2015), and her research is featured inthe American Journal of Bioethics,Law & Policy,Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, andTheoretical Criminology.

is Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on social, cultural, and historical aspects of knowledge production in the disciplines of kinesiology, medicine, and public health. She is particularly interested in studying exercise and fitness practices as technologies of health that have the potential to shape how we understand and experience our bodies.

is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as senior fellow for the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Andi teaches undergraduate students in the Health and Societies Program and the Science, Technology, and Society Program. Her main area of research concerns the history and anthropology of physiology, exploring epistemological and political intersections of science and sport in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Andis work has appeared inBiosocieties,Health Affairs,Journal of the History of Biology, andSocial Studies of Science.

is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport and Dean of the Faculty of Environment, Society and Design at Lincoln University in Christchurch, New Zealand. She is the author ofSport and Technology: An Actor-Network Theory Perspective(2016) and has a long-standing interest in the role of non-humans, such as technologies, in the production and performance of sport. While much of her writing has drawn on the work of Bruno Latour and other actor-network theorists, she is broadly interested in a range of French sociologists, having also published sport-focused articles on Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu.

is Professor of Kinesiology and Health Studies and Gender Studies at Queens University. Her work on the embodied dimensions of consumer culture has appeared inSocial Text, Ethnic and Racial Studies, theSociology of Sport Journal, and theInternational Journal of Drug Policy, among other venues. Her book,Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy(2006), is the subject of a National Film Board documentary by the same name. She is co-editor ofMessy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food(2019). Her work explores the place of protein in contemporary food and fitness cultures.

is the Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society and Professor in the School of History and Sociology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on American culture and sport including inequalities as related to gender, race, class, and sexuality. Her publications have appeared in such venues as theSociology of Sport Journal,Ethnic and Racial Studies,Sociological Perspectives, and theInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport. A past president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, she directs the Sports, Society, and Technology program at Georgia Tech.