Project description

Her project is entitled ‘Show & Tell: Representation, visualization, and evidence across epistemic cultures.’ In it, she will explore what happens when we encounter new kinds of images as evidence, such as brain scans and botanical illustrations. In her project, she is concerned with the specific features that make new kinds of images more (or less) credible for different audiences, as technologies, methods, images and people move between scientific, practitioner and professional communities.

Short bio

Alison Gerber (PhD 2014, Yale University) works on the intersection of value, culture, and public life, from tax audits to noise music. Her current research focuses on value and valuation processes in the development of archives and archival practice; images and visual veracity across disciplinary contexts; and sensation and attention in scientific research. Her research areas include sociological theory, economic sociology, cultural sociology,  and science and technology studies.