The Editorial Team

Leandro Rodriguez Medina is Professor at the Department of International Relations and Political Science, Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), Mexico. In 2021 he was Visiting Researcher at Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Amériques at Institute des Hautes Etudes de l’Amerique Latine, Université de Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle and at the Centre Population et Développment at University Paris Descartes. He held the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Visiting Professorship of Social Sciences at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, in Mexico City in 2017 and was an Affiliated Researcher at the Sociology Department at University of Cambridge, as part of the EU-funded research project “International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and Humanities.” He studied political science (BA, Universidad de Belgrano, Argentina), epistemology (MA, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina), philosophy (MA, State University of New York at Stony Brook, US), and sociology (PhD, University of Cambridge, UK) before moving to UDLAP in 2009. Since 2011, he has been a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores – Level II (National System of Researchers, Mexico) at the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología CONACYT (National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico). Between 2011 and 2014, he was a member of the Governing Council of the Society for the Social Studies of Sciences (4S) and was co-Chair of the 2014 Annual Meeting of 4S, which was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Along with Luciano Levin, he will be the co-chair of the 2022 ESOCITE-4S Joint Meeting to be held in Cholula, Mexico. His empirical research focuses on social aspects of diseases (zika and Covid-19), the transformation of the urban space through culture, and the internationalization of the social sciences.

and Genetics (TranSocGen), the Network for Interdisciplinary Research on Identity, Racism and Xenophobia in Latin America (Red INTEGRA), the Thematic Network in Forensic Science, and the Race and Biomedicine Beyond the Lab (RaBBL) Network. Her research assesses the impact of biomedical and forensic genetics infrastructures and practices on issues of racism, health, and justice in Mexico. Her work has been published in international academic journals based both in the Global North and in Latin America, and in non-academic spaces such as SLATE Future Tense and Este País.

Associate Editors
Luis Reyes-Galindo is a post-doctoral researcher in the sociology of science (PhD, Cardiff University) in the Global Epistemologies and Ontologies of Science (GEOS) project at Wageningen University. He received the Mexican National University's J. M. Lozano Medal for his undergraduate work in Casimir effect physics, is a former British Academy Post-Doctoral Researcher and has held academic positions in Mexico, Brazil, the UK and the Netherlands. He is a member of Conacyt's Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Level 1). His research focuses on scientific and academic communication (open access publishing), trust and epistemic fragmentation in science, science policymaking in Latin America, the sociology of theoretical physics, big data cultures, and fringe science and scientific populism.
Mauricio Nieto Olarte has a Doctorate in the History of Sciences from London University, and he is currently Dean of the Social Science Faculty and Titular Professor at the Department of History at Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia. His research has focused on the relationship between science, technology and politics in imperial and colonial contexts, he has worked on European expeditions to the New World, on natural history, cartography and navigation in order to explain the role of such techno-scientific practices in the political and cultural history of the Hispano-American world from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. He has been teaching courses and seminars in history and sociology of science in different universities in Latin America and Colombia for the past 20 years.
Raquel Velho is Assistant Professor in the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) and associate researcher at the Department of Science & Technology Policy at Unicamp (Brazil). She holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from University College London (UK), a MS in Science, Technology, Medicine and Society from Imperial College London (UK), and a BA in Sociology from Université de Nantes (France).
Raquel has published articles in English and Portuguese, on the topics of transit accessibility, disability, and infrastructure building, and works at the intersection of disability studies and science and technology studies. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Transportation Science & Technology, Social Inclusion, among others. She is member of the editorial board of Alter-European Journal of Disability Studies and of the International Journal of Disability and Social Justice.
Marko Monteiro has a PhD in Social Sciences (University of Campinas, 2005). He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin (2006Austin ( -2008 and the University of Campinas (2009), both in Science, Technology and Society. He is currently Associate Professor at the Science and Technology Policy Department, University of Campinas, Brazil. His research interests lie in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Anthropology of Science and Technology. He has worked with topics such as sociotechnical controversies; ethnographies of interdisciplinary scientific practice; and visual representation in science. He is currently conducting research related to the governance of science in Brazil, especially focusing on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and the Brazilian response to Covid-19. He is also the leader of GEICT -Interdisciplinary Research Group in Science and Technology (https://geict.wordpress.com/) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4008-4985 Email: carambol@unicamp.br María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra is a medical anthropologist and an anthropologist of science with a clear focus on ethnographic research. She addresses interactions of health, technology, and the body in highly biomedicalized and technological contexts, including forensic victim identification in armed conflicts, prenatal testing, congenital cardiac disease and childhood cancer in Latin America. Her research experiences allow for a wider understanding of the effects that techno-scientific products and practices have on people's lives. Currently, she is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. In a context of transitional justice, she examines the politics of Colombian forensic scientists' knowledge production practices that co-shape the collective accounting of violence. These practices contribute to judicial and humanitarian actions of victim reparation and justice. Additionally, she is a Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, in the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, where she will research the socio-materiality of the search for forcibly disappeared persons in Latin America.

Book Review Editors
Víctor Ávila-Torres is a PhD candidate at the University of York, UK. His main interests lie within the subjective relation that individuals hold with technologies, and how this relationship mediates the experience of the self in the world. His thesis is about on how our relationship and attachment to music is shaped by technologies and affects. It includes elements from cultural sociology, consumer culture, valuation studies and practice theory. His background is also in media and communication studies. Currently, while preparing his submission, he works as convenor at the Science & Technology Unit (SATSU) at York, as well as research intern for the project Voices in Partnership -Interactional practices of decision-making during childbirth. He is also book review editor for the journal Information, Communication and Society, and reviewer for New Media & Society.
Alexis De Greiff earned a BA and MSc in Theoretical Physics in Colombia, and received his Ph.D in History of Science from the Imperial College, University of London (2000). He is Associate Professor at the Sociology Department, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has been a Fulbright Scholar (2019) and visiting researcher at the Humboldt Universität (Berlin), Universitá degli Studi di Milano (Milan) and the City University of New York (CUNY). He has written on the history of the relationship between discourses and practices of "science for development" institutions; history of physics in the "Third World"; historiography of infrastructure; and public understanding of science. The Latin American Society of Science, Technology and Society (ESOCITE) awarded him the "Amilcar Herrera Prize" in 2014 for the best contribution to the field. He is currently engaged in two projects. One on the Infrastructures in twentieth-century Colombia and another on Political Education for Democracy. (https://centro-educacion-politica.org) Marina Fontolan is a Brazilian interested in all things technology, a Doctor in science and technology policy, and the International Visiting Scholar at Robert Morris University (Pittsburgh, PA). Their dissertation is on the role of localization in the video game industry and their current research investigates serious games and knowledge creation in Latin America. They have a B.S. in History and a M.S. in Cultural History. They truly believe that Latin America is an amazing, but little known region of the world. Their role as a Book Review Editor in Tapuya is to help disclose the complex and amazing research done there, specially regarding technologies and cultural industries.
Nathalia Hernández-Vidal is a Visiting Scholar at the University of North Texas and a researcher in the working group of Latin American Political Ecology from the South, Abya Yala, of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago, and an MA and a BA in Philosophy from Universidad de los Andes. Drawing from the tradition of feminist intersectionality, her work examines (i) how agri-environmental injustices are produced by and reproduce colonial patterns of racial, gender, and class inequalities, and (ii) the alternative pathways created by Indigenous, Black, and Mestizx communities who are subject to them. Besides her article publications in English and Spanish, Dr. Hernández Vidal is currently working on her first book entitled Regenerating Mobilizations: Coloniality, Environmental Justice, and People's Power.
Carolina Peláez-González is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Relations at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Xochimilco (UAM-X) in México city. She studied Sociology (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Azcapotzalco), Gender Studies (MA, Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género, El Colegio de México) and Social Sciences (Phd, Centro de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de México). Member of the National Researches System, level Candidate, since 2018. Her research has mainly focused on the sociocultural, technological and economic conditions in fishing industrial communities from the perspective of Actor-Network Theory. She is currently researching the role of gender relations in the constitution of maritime culture in the Pacific Northwestern Mexico with a particular emphasis on artifacts and the relation between body, emotion and sense in the processes of knowledge acquisition in every day work. She is also co-responsible in a UAM-project about young people and precarious conditions, specifically the role of the senses and emotions in the learning process of young doctors. Carolina has published various chapters for books at prestigious Mexican universities, and editorials such as for El Colegio de México and Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales-UNAM.
Hined A. Rafeh is a Syrian-Venezuelan American and PhD candidate in the RPI STS program, and her research explores genetic testing, technoidentities and critical scientific engagement. Her dissertation is on the regulation and commercialization of genetic health tests, and how genetic tests construct and are shaped by notions of risk, diagnosis, and identity.  1876-1920(CSIC, Madrid, 2004 and editor of Naturaleza en declive. Miradas a la historia ambiental de América Latina y el Caribe, (Valencia, Spain, 2008). In 2019 he received the Casa de las Americas Award with the book Nuestro viaje a la Luna. La idea de la transformación de la naturaleza en Cuba durante la Guerra Fría. His research focuses on Cuban and Caribbean Environmental History, and the History of Science and Technology in Cuba. He is visiting professor at Yale University, 2015-2020, and President of the Cuban Society for the History of Science and Technology (since 2019). articles and book chapters. He recently undertook a cultural project called "La Cueva del Rey Café-Galería," an artistic and cultural space in a small semi-rural community in Puebla (Mexico), which seeks to become a safe place of cultural recreation for families in an area troubled by crime and violence.