Invisible Labour in Modern Science

Jenny Bangham is a Wellcome University Award Lecturer in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, where she researchers the politics, meanings and practices of genetics. She is the author of Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (2020). She is coeditor (with Emma Kowal and Boris Jardine) of the open access volume, `How Collections End: Objects and Loss in Laboratories and Museums¿ (2019).
Xan Chacko is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Women¿s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. A feminist science studies scholar, her research complicates the taken-for-grantedness of scientific knowledge production to argue for a feminist re-envisioning of science that is committed to justice. Her most recent book is The Last Seed: Colonial Legacies and Botanic Futures.
Judith Kaplan is a historian of the human sciences who teaches in the Integrated Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Her work focuses on the rise of modern linguistics in nineteenth-century Germany and on the subsequent development of comparative and historical approaches. She has published widely on topics from orientalism to sound studies and is currently completing a manuscript on Living Language and the Transformation of Linguistics, 1871¿1918.