Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn

I am an anthropologically-oriented STS scholar working at the intersection of community engagement, design research and pedagogy, and environmental justice. My scholarly work on the contexts that enable effective collaboration, communication, and engagement is rooted in interdisciplinary research that centers both STS and non-academic perspectives. For the past decade, building on my early ethnographic research on how environmental scientists at the EPA are approaching communication as a task of “context production,” I have designed and developed contexts for collaborative data analysis (the Platform for Collaborative Experimental Ethnography), public data sharing (the Jefferson Project Data Dashboard), and community-engaged pedagogy (Volunteer Troy and Vasudha Living & Learning). My most recent research, while rooted in local community-engaged methods, aims to impact national policy and practices around nuclear waste, leading to more just and equitable processes and outcomes.