Publications

Books:

Genomics With Care: Minding the Double Binds of Science. Duke University Press, 2023.

Promising Genomics: Iceland and DeCODE Genetics In a World of Speculation. University of California Press, 2008.

Muddling Through: Pursuing Science and Truths in the Twenty-First Century (co-authored with Herbert J. Bernstein). Washington, DC: Counterpoint Press, 1998.

Edited Books:
Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities-New Challenges. Jerome Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, and Lindsay Poirier, eds. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019.
Major Works in Cultural Anthropology (4 vols.), co-edited with Kim Fortun. London: Sage, 2010.
The Practices of Human Genetics: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (co-edited with Everett Mendelsohn). Kluwer, 1999.

Selected articles:

2023     Kim Fortun and Mike Fortun, “How to devise collaborative hermeneutics,” An Ethnographic Inventory: Field Devices for Anthropological Inquiry, ed. Tomás Sánchez Criado and Adolfo Estalella, Routledge.

2021     Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Angela Hitomi Skye Crandall Okune, Tim Schütz, and Shan-Ya Su. “Civic Community Archiving with the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography: Double Binds and Design Challenges.” In Culture and Computing. Design Thinking and Cultural Computing, edited by Matthias Rauterberg, 12795:36–55. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77431-8_3.

2021      Aalok Khandekar, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Alison Kenner, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, and the PECE Design Team, “Moving Ethnography: Infrastructuring Doubletakes and Switchbacks in Experimental Collaborative Methods,” Special Issue: Methodography of Ethnographic Collaboration, Science and Technology Studies 34(3); https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/89782

2019      Lindsay Poirier, Kim Fortun, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, and Mike Fortun. “Metadata, Digital Infrastructure, and the Data Ideologies of Cultural Anthropology.” Anthropological Data in the Digital Age: New Possibilities-New Challenges.. Jerome Crowder, Mike Fortun, Rachel Besara, and Lindsay Poirier, eds. Palgrave Macmillan.

2019      Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun, et al. “What’s so funny ‘bout PECE, TAF, and data sharing?” Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions, ed. Dominic Boyer and George Marcus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

2019      Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun. Anthropologies of the Sciences: Thinking across Strata. Exotic No More: Anthropology for the Contemporary World (2nd edition), ed. Jeremy MacClancy, pp. 241-263. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2017      Mike Fortun, Kim Fortun, and George Marcus. “Computers in/and Anthropology: The Poetics and Politics of Digitization,” Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, ed. Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, and Genevieve Bell, pp. 11-20. New York: Routledge.

2017       Fortun, Mike, Kim Fortun, and George Marcus .  “Computers in/and Anthropology: The Poetics and Politics of Digitization,” in Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, and Genevieve Bell (eds.), Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (New York: Routledge), pp. 11-20.

2016       Kim Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Alli Morgan, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, and Mike Fortun, “Pushback: Critical data designers and pollution politics,” Big Data and Society, July-December; http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951716668903

2015       (with Kim Fortun) An Infrastructural Moment in the Human Sciences. Cultural Anthropology 30 (3):359-367.

2015       “Science Studies” In Oxford Bibliographies  (Anthropology). http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0088.xml

2015       “What Toll Pursuit: Affective Assemblages in Genomics and Postgenomics.”  In Postgenomics, ed. Hallam Stevens and Sarah Richardson, Duke University Press.

2014       (co-authored with Erik Bigras, Brandon Costello-Kuehn, Tahereh Saheb, Jerome Crowder, Dan Price, Alison Kenner, Kim Fortun)  “Experimental Ethnography Online: The Asthma Files,” Cultural Studies 28(4):632-642.

2013       (co-authored with Erik Bigras, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Tahereh Saheb, Jerome Crowder, Dan Price, Kim Fortun) “Asthma, Culture, and Cultural Analysis,” Heterogeneity in Asthma: Translational Profiling & Phenotyping.  Series: Advances In Experimental Medicine And Biology.  Springer.

2012    “Genomics Scandals and Other Volatilities of Promising,” in Lively Capital, ed. Kaushik Sunder Rajan (Duke University Press).

2010    “Editor’s Introduction” (with Kim Fortun). Major Works in Cultural Anthropology (4 vols.), edited with Kim Fortun.  London: Sage.

2009    “Genes In Our kNot.” Handbook of Genetics and Society: Mapping the New Genomic Era, Paul Atkinson, Peter Glasner, and Margaret Lock (eds.).  London: Routledge.

2007   “Introduction to ‘The Coke Complex’,” (with Kim Fortun) Cultural Anthropology 22(4): 616-620.

2005    “For An Ethics of Promising, Or, A Few Kind Words About James Watson.” New Genetics and Society 24/2:157-173.

2005    “Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S.  Toxicology” (with Kim Fortun), American Anthropologist 107(1):43-54.

2005       “The Use of Race Variables in Genetic Studies of Complex Traits and the Goal of Reducing Health Disparities” (with Evelynn Hammonds, Patricia King, Caryn Lerman, Rayna Rapp, Alexandra Shields, and Patrick Sullivan), American Psychologist 60 (1):77-103.

2003    “Celera Genomics: The Race for the Human Genome Sequence.”  Encyclopedia of Human Genetics.  London: Macmillan (http://www.ehgonline.net)

2003    “Towards Genomic Solidarity: Lessons From Iceland and Estonia,” OpenDemocracy, July 10, 2003 (http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-9-79-1344.jsp)

2001       “Open Reading Frames: The Genome and the Media,” in GeneWatch 14.6 (November 2001), 11-13; GeneWatch 15.1 (January 2002), 6-9; GeneWatch 15.2 (March 2002), 12-13. http://www.gene-watch.org/genewatch/articles/14-6fortun.html

2002       “Now Then: Promising Speed Genomics,” Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, ed. Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric (exhibit catalogue for “Paradise Now” at Tang Art Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY), 18-25.

2002      “The Human Genome Project: Past, Present, and Future Anterior.” Garland E. Allen and Roy M.MacLeod, eds., Science, History and Social Activism: A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.

2001      “Mediated Speculations in the Genomics Futures Markets.” New Genetics and Society 20/2:139-156.