Kavita Philip is the President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures and Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures, UBC. Her research and teaching in Global South histories and sociologies of science, computational technologies, environment, network cultures, media and politics crosses geographic boundaries and ranges across scholarly disciplines. For 25 years, Philip has been engaged not only in the intellectual task of forging methods to connect techno-scientific, social scientific and humanistic inquiry, but also in the institutional task of building these collaborative spaces. She seeks to develop public humanities research that acknowledges the intertwined material and social contexts of cultural production.