Rate My Professor Maria Puig de la Bellacasa

Puig de la Bellacasa's academic interests lie at the intersection of science and technology studies, feminist theory, and environmental humanities, with a focus on ecological cultures, human-soil relations, care ethics, decolonial ecologies, and speculative thinking. With a background in contemporary continental philosophy, constructivist and process philosophies, her earlier research addressed feminist epistemologies and the politics of knowledge production in scientific practice and technological innovations. Key publications include her monograph Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds (University of Minnesota Press, 2017); co-edited collections Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict (Bristol University Press, 2023) with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Maddalena Tacchetti, and Reactivating Elements: Chemistry, Ecology, Practice (Duke University Press, 2021) with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Natasha Myers; as well as journal articles such as "Making time for soil: Technoscientific futurity and the pace of care" (Social Studies of Science, 2015) and "The re-animation of soil: transforming human-soil relations across science, culture and community" (The Sociological Review, 2019), which received the 2020 Article of the Year Prize from the Finnish Society for Aesthetics. She is currently authoring When the Name for World is Soil: Transforming Human-Soil Affections Through Science, Culture and Community.