Dr. A. (Abigail) Nieves Delgado

Associate Professor
History and Philosophy of Science
a.nievesdelgado@uu.nl

Recent publications

  • Inclusive Science Teaching: Designing a Workshop for University Teachers. (Co-authors: Eleanor Rowan, Aitana Bilinski, Miriam de Boer, Chahida Bouhamou, Samar Nasrullah Khan and Arthur Bakker) In: Educational Designer. Access here.
  • How to Eliminate Race from Human Microbiome Research. (Co-author: Jan Baedke) In: Argumenta. Access here.

2023

  • Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science. (Co-authors: Elise Alkemade, Nils Deeg, Carles Guillén Almiñana, Samar Nasrullah Khan, Oriana Morales Hernández, Abigail Nieves Delgado, Elian Schure, Mark Whittle and Hilbrand Wouters) In: Journal for General Philosophy of Science. Access here.
  • Transdisciplinary Philosophy of Science: Meeting the Challenge of Indigenous Expertise. (Co-authors: David Ludwig, Charbel N. El-Hani, Fabio Gatti, Catherine Kendig, Matthias Kramm, Lucia Neco, Luana Poliseli, Vitor Renck, Adriana Ressiore C., Luis Reyes Galindo, Thomas Lloyd Rickard, Gabriela De La Rosa, Julia J. Turska, Francisco Vergara-Silva, Robert A. Wilson) In: Philosophy of Science.  Forthcoming (Transdisciplinary PoS.pdf)
  • Pluralist Ethnobiology: Between Philosophical Reflection and Transdisciplinary Action. (Co-authors: David Ludwig and Charbel El-Hani). In Journal of Ethnobiology
  • Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico. In Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Access here.

2022

  • Race and statistics in facial recognition: Producing types, physical attributes, and genealogies. In: Social Studies of Science. Access here
  • Privacy in social media: A perspective from the logic of care. (Co-author: Laura Kocksch). In: Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. Access here
  • Zoonoses and Medicine as Social Science: Implications of Rudolf Virchow’s Work for Understanding Global Pandemics. In: Lemm, V., Vatter, M. (eds) The Viral Politics of Covid-19. Biolegalities. (Co-author:  Azita Chellappoo )  (2022) Access here
  • The Heredity Matrix: Genetics and the Understanding of Mestizaje, Health, and Belonging in Mexico. In: Science as Culture (Co-author: Carlos López-Beltrán, Sandra P. González-Santos and Vivette García) (2022) Access here

2021

  • Does the human microbiome tell us something about race?. In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Co-author: Jan Baedke) (2021). Access here

  • Global climate change, diet and the complex relationship between human host and microbiome: Towards an integrated picture. In: BioEssays (Co-authors: Francesco Catania, Jan Baedke, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Valerio Vitali, Le Anh Nguyen Long) (2021). Access here

  • Revisiting Hans Böker's "Species Transformation Through Reconstruction: Reconstruction Through Active Reaction of Organisms" (1935). In: Biological Theory. (Co-authors: Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda and Jan Baedke) (2021). Access here

 

2020

  • The face of the Mexican: Race, nation and criminal identification in Mexico. In: American Anthropologist (2020). Access here

  • Facial recognition technologies and the new physiognomic era. In: Psychosozial (2020).

  • The Problematic Use of Race in Facial Reconstruction. In: Science as Culture (2020). Access here

  • The Holobiont Concept before Margulis. In: The Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. (Co-authors: Jan Baedke, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda) (2020). Access here

2019 and older

  • Race and Nutrition in the New World: Colonial Shadows in the Age of Epigenetics. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. (Co-author: Jan Baedke) (2019). Access here

  • Science, Politics and the Production of Biological Knowledge: New Trends and Old Challenges. In: Journal of General Philosophy of Science 49(3): 467–473 (2018). Access here

  • What do I look like? Narratives of origin, heredity and identity written on the face. In: AIBR, Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana 12(3): 313-337 (Co-authors: Vivette García Deister, Carlos López Beltrán) (2017). Access here

     

Publications

2023

Scholarly publications

Nieves Delgado, A., Schure, E., & Alkemade, E. (2023). Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science: Global Dialogues and New Directions for Philosophy of Science. Journal for General Philosophy of Science - Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-023-09660-7

2022

Scholarly publications

Nieves Delgado, A., & Chellappoo, A. (2022). Zoonoses and Medicine as Social Science: Implications of Rudolf Virchow’s Work for Understanding Global Pandemics. In V. Lemm, & M. Vatter (Eds.), The Viral Politics of Covid-19: Nature, Home, and Planetary Health (1 ed., pp. 73-91). (Biolegalities). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3942-6_5