Vaia Sigounas
Vaia Sigounas, assistant professor of anthropology at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently received a Polgar Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) for her paper, titled "Technologies of Care and the Engineering Imaginary: Two Approaches to Assistive Device Design for the Global South.”
Published in March 2024, Sigounas’s paper:
- Reports on her research in Uganda with engineers, designers and makers of prosthetics and their clients; and
- Argues for the need to understand the cultural understandings of those experiencing limb loss and designers who create these "technologies of care” in the form of prosthetic limbs.
