Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California Santa Cruz, 1995B.A., Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sociology Rice University, 1989
X-Director
Institute for Social Sciences
Professor
Department of Anthropology Sociocultural Wing
Professor
Science and Technology Studies
Research Focus:
Joe uses ethnography, STS and performance practice-as-research to
study financialized corporate capitalism (pharmaceutical and
energy industries); data science and immersive visualization; the
history of computational notions of logic, irrationality, brains
and personhood; anatomies of agency and movement (fascia,
improvisation, and training), and game design as social research.