David Serlin (pronouns: he/him) is a professor of communication at UC San Diego, where he is a core faculty in the Science Studies Program and affiliated faculty in the Program in Critical Gender Studies. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome (FAAR ’21), where he was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture in 2020. His research interests include historical and cultural approaches to disability, technology, and the politics of design; architecture, urbanism, and the built environment; material culture, museums, and archives; scientific and aesthetic histories of the senses, especially touch, smell, and cognition; and feminist, crip, and queer theories of embodiment, experience, and subjectivity. You can see more of Professor Serlin’s research at https://davidserlin.academia.edu/research.