Jack Mullee, PhD
Adjunct Lecturer
Anthropology, Sociocultural
Pronouns: He/Him/His
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BSB 2138A
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1007 W Harrison St
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About
I am a cultural anthropologist and educator whose work focuses on technology and social politics in contemporary Brazil. My current book project, Sciences of São Paulo: Biomedicalization and Logistical Health in a Brazilian Metropolis, is an ethnography of public healthcare logistics in Brazil from the perspectives of health administrators, activists and researchers in Brazil’s largest city. The book makes an argument as to the emergence of “logistified” modes of reasoning and relating that have become hegemonic in the context of Brazil’s “right to health”. As global health is increasingly defined by technosciences outside of biomedicine per se — such as informatics and finance — so my book argues that an emergent era of “logistical health” is upon us in Brazil and beyond.
Other research interests include: education in society; media and information technology; social movements; mathematics and number; transportation politics; and economic anthropology and informal economies.
Selected Grants
University of Chicago Provost's Global Faculty Award, "Logistics in the Making of Mobile Worlds", Co-PI (2022-2023)
University of Chicago Neubauer Collegium for Culture & Society Faculty Research Award, "Logistics in the Making of Mobile Worlds", Co-PI (2022-2023)
University of Chicago Department of Anthropology Lichstern Dissertation Fellowship, “Sciences of São Paulo: Universal Health and Logistical Reason from a Brazilian Metropolis”, Co-PI (2019-2020)
Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, “Sciences of São Paulo: Universal Health and Logistical Reason from a Brazilian Metropolis”, Co-PI (2016-2018)
Fullbright Fellowship, “Beyond Informality: A Theory of Machinic Ontogenesis in the Buenos Aires Subte”, Co-PI (2009)
Selected Publications
Sheldon, Zachary and Jack Mullee. “How to Play Logistics Command”. Roadsides, 7:15-20, 2022.
Mullee, Jack. “The Box is a Variable”. In “Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds”, by Julie Chu, Kenzell Huggins, Harini Kumar, Jack Mullee and Heangjin Park. Published online for Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism, March 31, 2020.
Mullee, Jack. “Fulfillable?”. In “Un/boxing Fulfillment: A Field Guide to Logistical Worlds”, by Julie Chu, Kenzell Huggins, Harini Kumar, Jack Mullee and Heangjin Park. Published online for Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism, March 31, 2020.
Gordon EJ, Mullee J, Skaro A, Baker T. “Live liver donors’ information needs: A qualitative study of practical implications for informed consent”. Surgery, 160(3):671-82, September 2016.
Gordon EJ, Mullee J, Butt Z, Kang J, Baker T. “Optimizing informed consent in live liver donors: Evaluation of a comprehensive assessment tool”. Liver Transplantation, 21(10):1270-9, October 2015.
Gordon, EJ, Mullee JO, et al. “Hispanic/Latino concerns about living kidney donation: a focus group study”. Progress in Transplantation, 24(2):152-62, June 2014.
Education
Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago (2021)
M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago (2011)
B.A., American Studies & Sociology with Minor in Spanish, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) (2008)
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association
Society for the Social Study of Science (4S)
Selected Presentations
“Logistical Health: Technical Devices and Radical Politics in the Brazilian Health Movement”
Paper (Accepted) for 4S (Society for the Social Studies of Science) Annual Meeting.
Panel: “Engaging Logistical Minds” (Serving as Co-Chair with Canay Ozden-Schilling)
Honolulu, Hawaii
November 8-11, 2023
“Logistified: Revisiting the Technics-Politics Relation in Brazilian Collective Health”
Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting.
Panel: “Unsettling Logistical Minds” (Served as Co-Chair with Heangjin Park)
Seattle, Washington (November 11, 2022)
“Approximations: Collective Health and Disjunctive Technics in Brazilian Democracy”
Paper presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting in Toronto (virtual).
Panel: “Centering Public Healthcare”
Toronto, Canada (October 6, 2021)
“Extrapolating the State: Administrators and the Semiotics of Scale in São Paulo Health”
Paper presented at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
World Congress, Florianopolis, Brazil
Panel: “Anthropology of Contemporary States”
July 18, 2018
“Zero-Administration: The Semiotics of Scale in São Paulo Healthcare”
Paper presented at the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S), Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Panel: “Making Political Calculations”
September 2, 2017