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- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- bier@essb.eur.nl
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**Jess Bier (1980) is an assistant professor of urban sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. **
Dr. Bier is a social theorist who engages with the social and political impacts of scientific and technical knowledge. Her first book, Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine, analyzes how segregated landscapes have shaped digital cartography in Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967.
The full text of Dr. Bier’s publications can be downloaded from www.jessbier.org/publications. Her work is situated at the confluence of Science and Technology Studies (STS), critical geography, and postcolonial theory.
Dr. Bier is the recipient of a 2018 EUR Fellowship for for her current project, "Data Streams and Cargo Flows: The Labor Consequences of the Datafication of Logistics" on the role of data in the automation of shipping in the Port of Rotterdam. In the past, her work has also been funded in part by the Dutch National Research School for Science, Technology, and Modern Culture (WTMC).
Dr. Bier's dissertation received the 2016 Maastricht University dissertation prize, awarded to the best dissertation submitted to the university during the previous two years, from among all disciplines except medicine and the life sciences. In 2013, a chapter of her dissertation received a prize from the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
From 2013-16, Dr. Bier was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-Funded Monitoring Modernity research project headed by Willem Schinkel, where she analyzed the changing spatialities of efforts to monitor international financial flows during the ongoing financial crisis.
- Jess Bier (2017) - Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put - Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78 - doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2016) - Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models - Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293 - doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- Jess Bier (2017) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
- Jess Bier (2017) - Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put - Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78 - doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2016) - Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models - Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293 - doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- Jess Bier (2017) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
- Jess Bier (2020) - It’s a Small, Small, Small World: The Icesave Dispute and Global Orders of Difference - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38 (7-8), 1291-1307 - doi: 10.1177/2399654420917410 - [link]
- Francis Lee, Jess Bier, Jeffrey Christensen, Lukas Engelmann, CF Helgesson & Robin Williams (2019) - Algorithms as Folding: Reframing the Analytical Focus. 6(2): 1-12. - Big Data & Society, 6 (9), 1-12
- Jess Bier (2018) - Bodily Circulation and the Measure of a Life: Forensic Identification and Valuation after the Titanic Disaster - Social Studies of Science, 48 (5), 1-28
- Jess Bier (2017) - Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put - Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78 - doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- Jess Bier (2016) - Pillaged Books and Plundered Maps: Pirates and the Boundaries of Language - Krisis, tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie, (2), 1-19
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2016) - Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models - Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293 - doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- S Wyatt, Jess Bier, A Harris & B Van Heur (2013) - Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical views and experiences - Information, Communication and Society (print), 16 (2), 153-159 - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.746382
- Marianna Pavlovskaya & Jess Bier (2012) - Mapping census data for difference - Geoforum, 43 (3), 483-496 - doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.10.007
- Jess Bier (2008) - How Niqula Nasrallah became John Jacob Astor - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 (2), 171-191 - doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00029.x
- Agneta L. Sunehag, Kathryn Louie, Jessica L. Bier, Stelios Tigas & Morey W. Haymond (2002) - Hexoneogenesis in the human breast during lactation - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 87 (1), 297-301 - doi: 10.1210/jcem.87.1.8171
- Jess Bier (2016) - Young Astronauts Club. Nautilus Magazine: Spark of Science. - Nautilus
- Willem Schinkel, Marguerite van den Berg, S Bracke, Irene Oorschot, Rogier Reekum & Jess Bier (2020) - Academici zijn geen ‘vitale beroepsgroep’ - Science Guide - [link]
- Jess Bier (2017) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge - MIT Press
- Jess Bier (2019) - Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women’s Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area - Syracue University Press
- Jess Bier (2015) - Images as Maps - [link] - University of Chicago Press
- Jess Bier (2017) - Quantification and Classification: The Politics of Counting and Sorting - Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS)
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2017) - Locating Global Value: National Statistical Infrastructures and Multinational Banks - Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Jess Bier (2014) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Segregated Landscapes Shape Scientic Knowledge - Maastricht University
- Jess Bier (2018) - The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory
- Jess Bier (2018) - The Simple Societies of Complex Models - e-Flux
- Jess Bier (2018) - Aerial Photography without the Airplane
- Jess Bier (2020) - It’s a Small, Small, Small World: The Icesave Dispute and Global Orders of Difference - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38 (7-8), 1291-1307 - doi: 10.1177/2399654420917410 - [link]
- Francis Lee, Jess Bier, Jeffrey Christensen, Lukas Engelmann, CF Helgesson & Robin Williams (2019) - Algorithms as Folding: Reframing the Analytical Focus. 6(2): 1-12. - Big Data & Society, 6 (9), 1-12
- Jess Bier (2018) - Bodily Circulation and the Measure of a Life: Forensic Identification and Valuation after the Titanic Disaster - Social Studies of Science, 48 (5), 1-28
- Jess Bier (2017) - Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put - Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78 - doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- Jess Bier (2016) - Pillaged Books and Plundered Maps: Pirates and the Boundaries of Language - Krisis, tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie, (2), 1-19
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2016) - Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models - Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293 - doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- S Wyatt, Jess Bier, A Harris & B Van Heur (2013) - Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical views and experiences - Information, Communication and Society (print), 16 (2), 153-159 - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.746382
- Marianna Pavlovskaya & Jess Bier (2012) - Mapping census data for difference - Geoforum, 43 (3), 483-496 - doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.10.007
- Jess Bier (2008) - How Niqula Nasrallah became John Jacob Astor - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 (2), 171-191 - doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00029.x
- Agneta L. Sunehag, Kathryn Louie, Jessica L. Bier, Stelios Tigas & Morey W. Haymond (2002) - Hexoneogenesis in the human breast during lactation - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 87 (1), 297-301 - doi: 10.1210/jcem.87.1.8171
- Jess Bier (2016) - Young Astronauts Club. Nautilus Magazine: Spark of Science. - Nautilus
- Willem Schinkel, Marguerite van den Berg, S Bracke, Irene Oorschot, Rogier Reekum & Jess Bier (2020) - Academici zijn geen ‘vitale beroepsgroep’ - Science Guide - [link]
- Jess Bier (2020) - It’s a Small, Small, Small World: The Icesave Dispute and Global Orders of Difference - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38 (7-8), 1291-1307 - doi: 10.1177/2399654420917410 - [link]
- Francis Lee, Jess Bier, Jeffrey Christensen, Lukas Engelmann, CF Helgesson & Robin Williams (2019) - Algorithms as Folding: Reframing the Analytical Focus. 6(2): 1-12. - Big Data & Society, 6 (9), 1-12
- Jess Bier (2018) - Bodily Circulation and the Measure of a Life: Forensic Identification and Valuation after the Titanic Disaster - Social Studies of Science, 48 (5), 1-28
- Jess Bier (2017) - Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put - Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78 - doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- Jess Bier (2016) - Pillaged Books and Plundered Maps: Pirates and the Boundaries of Language - Krisis, tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie, (2), 1-19
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2016) - Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models - Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293 - doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- S Wyatt, Jess Bier, A Harris & B Van Heur (2013) - Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical views and experiences - Information, Communication and Society (print), 16 (2), 153-159 - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.746382
- Marianna Pavlovskaya & Jess Bier (2012) - Mapping census data for difference - Geoforum, 43 (3), 483-496 - doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.10.007
- Jess Bier (2008) - How Niqula Nasrallah became John Jacob Astor - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 (2), 171-191 - doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00029.x
- Agneta L. Sunehag, Kathryn Louie, Jessica L. Bier, Stelios Tigas & Morey W. Haymond (2002) - Hexoneogenesis in the human breast during lactation - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 87 (1), 297-301 - doi: 10.1210/jcem.87.1.8171
- Jess Bier (2020) - It’s a Small, Small, Small World: The Icesave Dispute and Global Orders of Difference - Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38 (7-8), 1291-1307 - doi: 10.1177/2399654420917410 - [link]
- Francis Lee, Jess Bier, Jeffrey Christensen, Lukas Engelmann, CF Helgesson & Robin Williams (2019) - Algorithms as Folding: Reframing the Analytical Focus. 6(2): 1-12. - Big Data & Society, 6 (9), 1-12
- Jess Bier (2018) - Bodily Circulation and the Measure of a Life: Forensic Identification and Valuation after the Titanic Disaster - Social Studies of Science, 48 (5), 1-28
- Jess Bier (2017) - Palestinian State Maps and Imperial Technologies of Staying Put - Public Culture, 29 (1), 53-78 - doi: 10.1215/08992363-3644397
- Jess Bier (2016) - Pillaged Books and Plundered Maps: Pirates and the Boundaries of Language - Krisis, tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie, (2), 1-19
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2016) - Building Better Ecological Machines: Complexity Theory and Alternative Economic Models - Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 266-293 - doi: 10.17351/ests2016.72
- S Wyatt, Jess Bier, A Harris & B Van Heur (2013) - Participatory Knowledge Production 2.0: Critical views and experiences - Information, Communication and Society (print), 16 (2), 153-159 - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.746382
- Marianna Pavlovskaya & Jess Bier (2012) - Mapping census data for difference - Geoforum, 43 (3), 483-496 - doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.10.007
- Jess Bier (2008) - How Niqula Nasrallah became John Jacob Astor - Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 18 (2), 171-191 - doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00029.x
- Agneta L. Sunehag, Kathryn Louie, Jessica L. Bier, Stelios Tigas & Morey W. Haymond (2002) - Hexoneogenesis in the human breast during lactation - Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 87 (1), 297-301 - doi: 10.1210/jcem.87.1.8171
- Jess Bier (2016) - Young Astronauts Club. Nautilus Magazine: Spark of Science. - Nautilus
- Jess Bier (2016) - Young Astronauts Club. Nautilus Magazine: Spark of Science. - Nautilus
- Willem Schinkel, Marguerite van den Berg, S Bracke, Irene Oorschot, Rogier Reekum & Jess Bier (2020) - Academici zijn geen ‘vitale beroepsgroep’ - Science Guide - [link]
- Willem Schinkel, Marguerite van den Berg, S Bracke, Irene Oorschot, Rogier Reekum & Jess Bier (2020) - Academici zijn geen ‘vitale beroepsgroep’ - Science Guide - [link]
- Jess Bier (2017) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge - MIT Press
- Jess Bier (2017) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge - MIT Press
- Jess Bier (2019) - Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women’s Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area - Syracue University Press
- Jess Bier (2015) - Images as Maps - [link] - University of Chicago Press
- Jess Bier (2017) - Quantification and Classification: The Politics of Counting and Sorting - Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS)
- Jess Bier (2019) - Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women’s Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area - Syracue University Press
- Jess Bier (2015) - Images as Maps - [link] - University of Chicago Press
- Jess Bier (2019) - Mapping the Archive for Arab American Women’s Labor in the New York Metropolitan Area - Syracue University Press
- Jess Bier (2015) - Images as Maps - [link] - University of Chicago Press
- Jess Bier (2017) - Quantification and Classification: The Politics of Counting and Sorting - Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS)
- Jess Bier (2017) - Quantification and Classification: The Politics of Counting and Sorting - Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS)
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2017) - Locating Global Value: National Statistical Infrastructures and Multinational Banks - Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Jess Bier & Willem Schinkel (2017) - Locating Global Value: National Statistical Infrastructures and Multinational Banks - Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Jess Bier (2014) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Segregated Landscapes Shape Scientic Knowledge - Maastricht University
- Jess Bier (2014) - Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Segregated Landscapes Shape Scientic Knowledge - Maastricht University
- Jess Bier (2018) - The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory
- Jess Bier (2018) - The Simple Societies of Complex Models - e-Flux
- Jess Bier (2018) - Aerial Photography without the Airplane
- Jess Bier (2018) - The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory
- Jess Bier (2018) - The Simple Societies of Complex Models - e-Flux
- Jess Bier (2018) - Aerial Photography without the Airplane
- Jess Bier, M Dap & F Ntow (4 June 2020) - Police Violence and Systemic Racism - Episode 31 - Protests against police violence and systemic racism
- Jess Bier (1 January 2018) - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience. - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience.
- Jess Bier, M Dap & F Ntow (4 June 2020) - Police Violence and Systemic Racism - Episode 31 - Protests against police violence and systemic racism
- Jess Bier (1 January 2018) - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience. - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience.
- Jess Bier, M Dap & F Ntow (4 June 2020) - Police Violence and Systemic Racism - Episode 31 - Protests against police violence and systemic racism
- Jess Bier, M Dap & F Ntow (4 June 2020) - Police Violence and Systemic Racism - Episode 31 - Protests against police violence and systemic racism
- Jess Bier (1 January 2018) - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience. - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience.
- Jess Bier (1 January 2018) - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience. - New Texts Out Now: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: Occupied Landscapes of International Technoscience.
- Jess Bier (2018) - Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2017) - National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (USA) (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2017) - Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2018) - Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2017) - National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (USA) (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2017) - Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2018) - Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2017) - National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (USA) (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2017) - Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (External organisation)
- Jess Bier (2017) - Maastricht University Dissertation Prize
- Jess Bier (2013) - PhD Paper Prize, Middle East Section (MES), American Anthropological Association (AAA)
- Jess Bier (2017) - Maastricht University Dissertation Prize
- Jess Bier (2013) - PhD Paper Prize, Middle East Section (MES), American Anthropological Association (AAA)
3.4C Sociology of the Globe
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FSWS-3041
4.2 Infrastructures of Power
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FSWS-520
3.4C Sociology of the Globe
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FSWS-3041
4.2 Infrastructures of Power
- Year
- 2021
- Course Code
- FSWS-520