Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Defunct Models of Pollution: Body Burdens and Ocean Plastics
Max Liboiron received her BFA from Mount Allison University with an emphasis on biology, and an MFA and certificate in Cultural Studies from SUNY Stony Brook. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Her research focuses on how 21st century plastic pollution such as ocean plastics and persistent plastic chemicals that accumulate in human tissue, defy 20th century concepts of what pollution is and how it works. Max is an author on the Discard Studies Blog and a founding member of the East Coast branch of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. As an artist, her work focuses on trash as a site of intersection for environmentalisms, non-capitalist economies and participation, and has been funded by the NSF and the American Association of University Women.
Max will spend the 2012-13 academic year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing (NYC, NY), as well as a Research Residency Fellow through an Allington Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA).