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Zoe Nyssa is an Associate Professor at Purdue University's College of Liberal Arts, specializing in applied anthropology with a focus on expert decision-making within technical cultures. Her research combines traditional ethnographic methods with computational social science techniques like text mining and topic modeling to explore governance, knowledge practices, and distributive justice regarding environmental issues. Dr. Nyssa has conducted research funded by various organizations and previously served as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a Ziff Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. She has played a key role in developing a new Master’s track in Applied Practicing Anthropology at Purdue and actively advises graduate students across multiple programs, guiding projects that examine the intersections of environmental science, policy, and technical culture. She holds a Hon. B.Sc. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Toronto, an M.A. from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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