About HARN

WHO WE ARE

The Human Augmentation Research Network (HARN) is a multidisciplinary collective of scholars from anthropology, religious studies, science and technology studies, informatics, sociology, and neighboring fields, who are researching emerging technologies and techno-cultures. The working group is a non-competitive and inclusive community.

The collective is open to academics at any level with an interest in transhumanism, biohacking, grinding, implantable devices, artificial intelligence, radical life-extension, cyborgs, cyberpunks, futurism, and emerging technologies or techno-cultures.

HARN advocates that new perspectives and methodological considerations are necessary in the study of emerging technologies and techno-cultures. While research on many of the aforementioned topics has been ongoing for decades, HARN supports and encourages creative, experimental, and challenging projects contributing to the emergence of the next generation in human augmentation research.

OBJECTIVES

Facilitate communication among human augmentation researchers

Provide support for graduate students and emerging scholars

Offer opportunities for mentorship

Share and distribute resources amongst members

Provide a vision for a new generation of human augmentation research.

FOUNDING MEMBERS

Jacob Boss

Jacob Boss (Ph.D. Indiana University) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queen’s University and Managing Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

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Victoria Lorrimar

Victoria Lorrimar (Ph.D. University of Oxford) is a Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in Australia (Fremantle, Western Australia).

 

Beth Singler

Beth Singler (Ph.D. University of Cambridge) is the Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Jeremy Cohen

Jeremy Cohen (Ph.D. McMaster University) is anthropologist of religion who studies conspiracy theories, new religious movements, and technology.

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Sharday Mosurinjohn

Sharday Mosurinjohn (Ph.D. Queen’s University) is Associate Professor in the School of Religion at Queen’s University (Kingston, ON).

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