Denielle A Elliott

Department of Anthropology
Department of Social Science
Associate Professor
Health & Society (HESO)
Graduate Program Director: Science & Technology Studies (STS)
Office: 5021D Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Building
Phone: 416 736 2100 Ext: 77823
Email: dae@yorku.ca
Primary website: www.undisciplinedethnography.ca
Secondary website: Centre for Imaginative Ethnography
Accepting New Graduate Students
Denielle Elliott is a Cultural Anthropologist who works in indigenous and postcolonial science studies, the anthropology of biomedicine, and experimental ethnography. Her work explores the intersections of govermentality, spatiality, and therapeutic technologies in both urban Canada and East Africa.
She is currently working on two related projects. The first is a social history of Kenyan scientist Davy Koech and his contribution to nation-building in postcolonial East Africa. The second is a collaborative project exploring the KEMRI 6 court case in Nairobi – a project that examines the entanglements of constitutional reform, transnational medical networks, the politics of race, and precarious labour. She recently received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for a new project, Neurological Imaginaries, to start in Fall 2017. In urban Canada she has explored the unintended consequences of a declaration of a public health emergency, focusing on injection drug users and AIDS, in Vancouver’s impoverished inner city community. In this area she has published on the politics of statistical evidence, the supervised injection site, and state medical interventions for the urban poor. Dr. Elliott also has an interest in literary ethnographic writing, and the use of creative and visual arts in ethnographic practice. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography – an interdisciplinary, research collective dedicated to new scholarship fusing creative arts, social theory, and social research. She has held research funds from British Columbia Medical Services Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation in Anthropological Research.
Websites
Graduate Programs
• Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology: http://anth.laps.yorku.ca
• Graduate Faculty in Science and Technology := http://sts.gradstudies.yorku.ca/
• Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women Studies Additional Profiles
• Centre for Imaginative Ethnography: http://imaginativeethnography.org
• Academia.edu Profile: http://yorku.academia.edu/DenielleElliott
Area of Specialization
Cultural Anthropology; African Studies; Urban Anthropology; Postcolonialism and Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies
Degrees
PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Simon Fraser UniversityResearch Interests
2018 Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya: Stories from an African Scientist. London: Routledge Press.
Denielle Elliott and Dara Culhane A Different Kind of Ethnography (UTP, Toronto).
Current Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fall/Winter 2022 | GS/STS6004 .0 | A | STS Colloquium | SEMR |
Fall/Winter 2022 | GS/STS6005 3.0 | A | STS Research Cluster | SEMR |
Denielle Elliott is a Cultural Anthropologist who works in indigenous and postcolonial science studies, the anthropology of biomedicine, and experimental ethnography. Her work explores the intersections of govermentality, spatiality, and therapeutic technologies in both urban Canada and East Africa.
She is currently working on two related projects. The first is a social history of Kenyan scientist Davy Koech and his contribution to nation-building in postcolonial East Africa. The second is a collaborative project exploring the KEMRI 6 court case in Nairobi – a project that examines the entanglements of constitutional reform, transnational medical networks, the politics of race, and precarious labour. She recently received funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for a new project, Neurological Imaginaries, to start in Fall 2017. In urban Canada she has explored the unintended consequences of a declaration of a public health emergency, focusing on injection drug users and AIDS, in Vancouver’s impoverished inner city community. In this area she has published on the politics of statistical evidence, the supervised injection site, and state medical interventions for the urban poor. Dr. Elliott also has an interest in literary ethnographic writing, and the use of creative and visual arts in ethnographic practice. She is a founding member of the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography – an interdisciplinary, research collective dedicated to new scholarship fusing creative arts, social theory, and social research. She has held research funds from British Columbia Medical Services Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation in Anthropological Research.
Websites
Graduate Programs
• Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology: http://anth.laps.yorku.ca
• Graduate Faculty in Science and Technology := http://sts.gradstudies.yorku.ca/
• Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women Studies Additional Profiles
• Centre for Imaginative Ethnography: http://imaginativeethnography.org
• Academia.edu Profile: http://yorku.academia.edu/DenielleElliott
Area of Specialization
Cultural Anthropology; African Studies; Urban Anthropology; Postcolonialism and Colonialism; Science and Technology Studies
Degrees
PhD, Cultural Anthropology, Simon Fraser UniversityResearch Interests
All Publications
2018 Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya: Stories from an African Scientist. London: Routledge Press.
Denielle Elliott and Dara Culhane A Different Kind of Ethnography (UTP, Toronto).
Current Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fall/Winter 2022 | GS/STS6004 .0 | A | STS Colloquium | SEMR |
Fall/Winter 2022 | GS/STS6005 3.0 | A | STS Research Cluster | SEMR |