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Luisa Reis Castro

Postdoctoral Scholar - Teaching Fellow
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email reiscast@usc.edu

Biography

Luísa Reis-Castro is a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Southern California’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities, hosted by USC’s Anthropology Department and affiliated with the USC Dornsife Center on Science, Technology and Public Life. Her work examines human-nonhuman relations at the interface of science, health, and the environment in an interdependent, unequal world increasingly affected by human activity. In August 2023, Reis-Castro will start as an Assistant Professor at USC’s Anthropology Department.

Education

  • M.A. European Studies on Society, Science and Technology (ESST), Maastricht University
  • M.S. Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST), Maastricht University
  • Ph.D. History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, & Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • B.Sc. Social Sciences (Anthropology, Sociology, and Political Science), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  • Research Keywords

    Anthropology of Science, Health, and the Environment; Science and Technology Studies; Latin America/Brazil; Multispecies Ethnography; History of Science

  • Book Chapter

    • Lopes, G., Reis Castro, L. . (2019). A Vector in the (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in Brazil Palgrave. (Christos Lynteris). pp. 147-175.
    • Reis-Castro, L. (2017). The Underworlds Project and the ‘Collective Microbiome’: Mining biovalue from sewage Palgrave. pp. 105-128.

    Book Review

    • Lopes, G., Reis Castro, L. . (2019). A Vector in the (Re)Making: A History of Aedes aegypti as Mosquitoes that Transmit Diseases in Brazil Palgrave. (Christos Lynteris). pp. 147-175.
    • Reis-Castro, L. (2017). The Underworlds Project and the ‘Collective Microbiome’: Mining biovalue from sewage Palgrave. pp. 105-128.

    Journal Article

    • Reis-Castro, L. (2021). Becoming Without: Making Transgenic Mosquitoes and Disease Control in Brazil Environmental Humanities. Vol. 13 (2), pp. 323-347.
    • Reis Castro, L. (2020). Uma Antropologia da Transmissão: Mosquitos, Mulheres e a Epidemia de Zika no Brasil Ilha Revista de Antropologia. Vol. 22 (2), pp. 21-63.
    • 2021 Graduate Student Essay Award – Forum for the History of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, History of Science Society, 2021-2022
    • 2021 Jane Goodall Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Scholarship – Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association, 2021-2022
    • 2021 Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award – Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2021-2022
    • 2021 Rudolf Virchow Award, Graduate Award Category – Special interest group Critical Anthropology for Global Health, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2021-2022
    • 2022 Best Article in the Social Sciences – Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2021-2022
    • 2022 Best Dissertation in the Social Sciences – Honorable Mention, Brazil Section, Latin American Studies Association, 2021-2022
    • 2022 BSHS Singer Prize – The British Society for the History of Science, 2021-2022
    • 2020 Early Career Scholar Award (third prize), World Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine, 2020-2021
    • 2020 Rappaport Student Paper Award, Anthropology and Environment Society, American Anthropological Association, 2020-2021
    • 2020-2021 STS Siegel Teaching Prize, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020-2021