About
Christopher Kelty is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His ethnographic and historical work explores the intersection of science, technology and social/political theory. He is the author of Two Bits (Duke University Press, 2008) and The Participant (University of Chicago Press, 2019) as well as articles on freedom, responsibility, participation in science and engineering. His current work is The Labyrinth Project (https://labyrinth.garden/), a multi-disciplinary collaborative research inquiry into conflict and controversy in urban ecologies in Los Angeles, California based in fieldwork with pest-control professionals, wildlife managers, biologists, and veterinarians.
Awards
- 2018: UCLA Academic Senate Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award
- Special recognition for Undergraduate Mentoring 2009
- Gregory Bateson Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology
- Honorable Mention for Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Relevant Publications
- Kelty, Christopher M. (2019b). The Participant. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
- Kelty, Christopher M. (2008b). Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press
- Kelty, Christopher M. (2017). “Too Much Democracy in All the Wrong Places: Toward a Grammar of Participation”. In: Current Anthropology 58.S15, S77–S90
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