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Anne Aronsson is an anthropologist of Japan and obtained her PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from Yale University. She was a postdoctoral fellow with a Suslowa-Postdoc-Fellowship grant at the University of Zurich in Switzerland where she taught a seminar course “Global Processes in East Asia.” At Yale she continued her work on her postdoctoral project on elder care in Japan and the use of robotic care devices, with a focus on social robots and emerging emotional technologies as well as taught four courses in the Department of Anthropology. Anne has authored many peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes on the question of robotic care devices and is the author of the monograph Career Women in Contemporary Japan: Pursuing Identities, Fashioning Lives published with Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Currently she has an affiliation with the University of Bern.
Casey Golomski (PhD, Brandeis University) is a creative writer and cultural and medical anthropologist whose research explores life, death, and their thresholds, asking how people work through and memorialize critical events in their lives and communities. He is the author of two books—God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End (Rutgers University Press, 2024), and Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom (Indiana University Press, 2018)—as well as many journal articles. He is Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire in the US.
Matouš Jelinek is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are related to the intersections of ethnicity, gender, and class in the context of education, institutional care, and social services. Currently, his research is focused on transnational commercial care infrastructures in Central Europe, as a part of the ERC Starting Grant project ‘ReloCare: Relocating Care within Europe’ led by Kristine Krause.
Fabienne Malbois, PhD, is an associate researcher at the University of Lausanne and a senior academic at the School of Social Work of Lausanne (HETSL, HES-SO). Using ethnographic approaches sensitive to the dynamics of interactions, her work focuses on gender, ageing, dementia, digital technologies and communication. Author of Déplier le genre (2011), she co-edited Methodological and Ontological Principles of Observation and Analysis. Following and Analyzing Things and Beings in Our Everyday World (2019). Her next piece of work will be published in Pragmata: Adverbialiser le care. Une relecture de Joan Tronto via la théorie de la valuation de John Dewey.
Rhoda Moramba is a PhD student in Nursing Science at Bern University of Applied Sciences and the University of Zürich, Graduate School of Care and Rehabilitation Sciences, in Switzerland. She has conducted ethnographic research in a nursing home in Switzerland in relation to diversity sensitive care practices, specifically exploring staff competences including Transcultural and Person-centred Care competencies She has interest in the field of research involving professional competence development and training to address diversities.
Benjamin Tremblay, PhD, is a scientific collaborator at the School of Social Work of Lausanne (HETSL, HES-SO), associate researcher at the University of Lausanne and at the Centre Max Weber (Lyon). From a pragmatist and ethnographic perspective, his early works focused on memory, testimony and public narratives, and led to a thesis in 2020 (“Pragmatique de la mémoire. Une enquête villeurbannaise”). In 2023 he joined A. Lambelet and F. Malbois to work on dementia and ageing ; he also teaches at the HETSL since then, especially leading a bachelor’s seminar devoted to "memory" in social work field.
Jago Wyssling is a PhD student in anthropology. He is a member of the Prison Research Group affiliated with the Institute for Penal Law and Criminology at the University of Bern. Having conducted research in both nursing homes and prisons (SNSF Project), his research interests include the anthropology of ethics, personhood, the connection between care and constraint, and the larger historical genealogies of coercive confinement in state-sponsored care institutions. He continues to look for the applicability of critical research to a prison abolitionist future, and the applicability of abolitionist ideals to the needs and lives of those with whose lives we write.
Yuan Yan is currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Jeannette Pols and Kristine Krause at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam. Her PhD research focuses on dementia care, specifically exploring the spatial experiences of people with dementia born between 1920 and 1960 in urban China within nursing homes. Additionally, she investigates the care values embedded in dementia care practices. She holds a master’s degree in Medical Anthropology from Sun Yat-sen University in China, where she explored how to establish authentic emotional relationships between caregivers and the elderly in a market-driven Chinese nursing home, focusing on the emotional interactions between people with dementia and care workers.
