RESEARCH INTERESTS
Denielle Elliott received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Simon Fraser University in 2007, specializing in urban anthropology, the politics of medicine and the social study of science and technology. Her work engages social theories of epistemology, political economy, the state, subalternity, and value, as a way to think through bioscientific and biomedical practices in (post)colonial settings. Her work is informed by cultural anthropology, critical geography, and postcolonial studies to explore the ethics and politics of experimental medicine and pharmaceuticals in urban Canada and East Africa. Recently she completed postdoctoral ethnographic fieldwork in Kisumu, Kenya where she examined the spatial politics of transnational HIV prevention clinical trials. Her work is collaborative and she has partnered with NGOs, medical epidemiologists, scientists, and indigenous groups to explore the unintended consequences of bioscientific research on disadvantaged communities.

Dr. Elliott also has an interest in experimental ethnographic writing, and the use of creative and visual arts in ethnographic practice. 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. When she is not at work, she can be found kayaking on Lake Victoria or cycling around Vancouver’s Stanley Park.