Denielle Elliot

Denielle Elliott is a socio-cultural anthropologist at York University where she is the deputy-director of the Tubman Institute. Her research explores the (1) anthropology of state science and scientists; (2) settler colonialism / urban Indigeneity; (3) the anthropology of biomedicine; and (4) multimodal ethnographic methods. Her work consistently interrogates state power as it works through biomedicine, science, and other statecraft practices in colonial and postcolonial contexts. She is currently working on two projects: an arts-based ethnography of traumatic brain injuries and a second project that explores Canadian scientists and transnational microbiology research. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, and co-editor of A Different Kind of Ethnography (UTP, 2016). She is also the author of Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya: Stories from an African Scientist (Routledge, 2018). She has also published papers in Cultural Studies Review, Contemporary Drug Problems, Catalyst, Medicine Anthropology Theory, among other journals and edited books.