Zoë H Wool, MA, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto

Academic Positions 

2024-Current Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto

2023-Current Faculty Affiliate, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

2020-Current Faculty Affiliate, Centre for the Study of the United States, Munk Centre,  University of Toronto 

2022-Current Core Faculty, Critical Digital Humanities Initiative, University of Toronto 

2021-Current Core Faculty, Center for Global Disability Studies, University of Toronto

2020-2024 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto 

2019-2020 Core Faculty, CSWGS, Rice University.

2016-2020 Core Faculty, Medical Humanities Program, Rice University.

2015-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rice University

2015-2020 Faculty Associate, Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University. 

2013-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow in Theory and Writing, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. 

2011-2013 NIMH-funded Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Health, Healthcare and Aging Research, Rutgers University. 

Education 

Ph.D.   University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, 2011

M.A.  University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology, 2005

B.A. with Honours, Summa Cum Laude, York University, Individualized Studies Program (Critical Discourse Analysis), 2004

Selected Grants + Awards

2023-4 Center for the Study of the US Award in Critical Praxis, University of Toronto

2022-2027 The Slow Violence of Post-9/11 US War Making: A distributed ethnography of US military burn pits, SSHRC Insight Award

2022 Infrastructural Violence in a Peripheral Place: The Mississauga Miracle and Legacies of Industrial Harm. Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto

2022              Reimagining the Graduate Student Handbook: A template to support graduate-level equity, diversity, and inclusion by prioritizing transparency, relationality, and demystification in a key document of graduate student life. Graduate Education Innovation Fund. School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto

2021        Ecologies of Empire Salon, Department of Anthropology Faculty Research Award

2020 Anthropology of Toxicity, Rice University Center for Engaged Research & Collaborative Learning Course Development Award

2019 Feminist Seminar Award, Rice University Center for the Study of Women, Gender & Sexuality

2018-2023 Socialities of Care: Informal Caregiving in post-9/11 Veteran and Care Collective Worlds. NSF CAREER Award

2019            Perspectives on Burn Pit Exposure: Questions of Diagnosis in Veteran and Caregiver Experience (renewal), VA WRIISC

2018 Disability Studies Lecture Series with Joshua Eyler. Rice Humanities Research Center Workshop or Lecture Series Grant.

2018             Disability and the City: Mapping Emergent Embodiment in Berlin. Rice University Humanities Research Center Research Project Development Grant.

2017-2018 Perspectives on Burn Pit Exposure: Questions of Diagnosis in Veteran and Caregiver Experience, Co-PI with Kenneth MacLeish (Vanderbilt University), VA War Related Illness and Injury Center (WRIISC) Grant

2017-2019 Toward Experience­-Guided Design of Effective Assistive Devices, Co-PI with Dr. Marcie O'Malley and Dr. Phil Kortum. Rice Interdisciplinary Excellence Award

2016 Disability Inside-Out: Sexuality, Identity, Politics. Mellon Foundation Public Humanities modular course award, awarded through Humanities Research Center, Rice University

2009 Society for the Study of North America, St. Clair Drake Student Travel Grant Award.

2007-2008     Vonda McCrae Clarke Memorial/ Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Anthropology.  

2007-2008 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Dissertation Fieldwork Grant.

Fellowships

2011-2013 NIMH-funded Postdoctoral Fellow, IHHCPAR, Rutgers University

2011 Ethnographic Writing Fellowship, Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto, Scarborough.

2010        Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM.

Selected Publications 

Books

2015 After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed, Duke University Press.*Awarded honorable mention for 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize

In Progress The Significance of Others: Intimacy, Disability, and the Violences of US Warmaking

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

2023 All that is solid burns into smoke: US military burn pits, petrochemical toxicity, and the racial geopolitics of displacement. Catalyst:  Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 9(1):1-22 

2021 Disability, Straight Time, and the American Dream: Disabled US veterans and the desire for heteronormative futures. American Ethnologist. 48(3)

2020 Veteran Therapeutics: The Promise of Military Medicine and the Possibilities of Disability in the Post-9/11 US, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 34(3): 305-323. 

2020 On the Possibilities of Open Grief: Mourning, Affect, Attachment, Cultural Anthropology. 35(1): 40–47.

2017 In-durable Sociality: Sociality, Solitude, and Forms of Life in the Present at a U.S. Military Hospital, Social Text. 35 (130).

2016 After War, Medicine, Anthropology, Theory. 2(3).

2014 Critical Military Studies, Queer Theory, and the Possibilities of Critique: the case of suicide and family caregiving in the U.S. military, Critical Military Studies. 1(1): 1-15.*Awarded Best Article by An Emerging Scholar. 

2013 On Movement: The Matter of U.S. Soldiers’ Being After Combat, Ethnos. 78(3).

2013      War Sick: Meaningful Illness and Military Victimhood, review essay, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 65(2).

2012 Labors of Love: The Transformation of Care in the Non-Medical Attendant Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Co-authored with Seth Messinger. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 26(1).  

2007 Operationalizing Iraqi Freedom: Governmentality, Neoliberalism and New Public Management in the War in Iraq, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 27(11/12):460-468.

Invited Journal Articles and Reviews 

2022 Burn Pits: US Military Waste as War Violence, with Kenneth MacLeish. "Theorizing the Contemporary", Cultural Anthropology Online. 

2020 Review of Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey by Saleh Can Açiksöz. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 

2019 Homunculus Revolts: Refiguring the Neurological Subject. Somatosphere.org.

2017      Collateral Afterworlds: An Introduction Co-authored with Julie Livingston, Social Text. 35 (130). 

2017        Review of Making War at Ft. Hood: War and Uncertainty in a Military Community, in conversation with Lindsay Bell, North American Dialogues, 2(20).  

2017        What Are You Reading? Responses to the Election and Inauguration Cultural Anthropology Online.

2015 "The terror of being on the wrong side of the (bio)politics of life” invited contribution to a Somatosphere.org book forum on Lisa Stevenson’s Life Beside Itself.

2013         The War Comes Home: Institutionalizing Informal Care and the Family Sequelae of Combat Injury, in The Costs of War: An accounting of the U.S. military response to 9/11, a project of the Eisenhower Research Group at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Catherine Lutz and Neta Crawford, Directors. 

2013         This is a Picture of an Injured Soldier, in Soldier Exposures in Technical Publics, Zoë Wool ed., a critical archival image essay for Public Culture’s media and literature website www.publicbooks.org. *Reprinted in Physical Therapy 93(9). 

2010         The War Comes Home: The Toll of War and the Shifting Burden of Care, with Alison Howell, in The Costs of War: An accounting of the U.S. military response to 9/11, a project of the Eisenhower Research Group at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Catherine Lutz and Neta Crawford, Directors. http://costsofwar.org/article/us-veterans-and-military-families

Book Chapters

2023 Yielding: Lessons in crip refusal, queer failure, and ethical research praxis, in Crip Authorship, Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, Eds. New York University Press. 

2019 Afterwar Work for Life: “Care” in Veteran Families in War and Health Catherine Lutz and Andrea Mazzarino, ed.s, New York University Press. 

2016 with Alison Howell. The War Comes Home: The Toll of War and the Shifting Burden of Care in Handbook on Gender and War, Jennifer Mathers and Linda Steiner, Eds. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2015 Attachments of Life and Death: Heteronational Masculinity, Genital Injury, and the Soldier’s Body in Living and Dying in the Contemporary World: A Compendium, Veena Das and Clara Han, eds., University of California Press.

Edited Volumes

In Progress US Military Burn Pits and Beyond: Stories of Toxicity from The Persian Gulf to the US Gulf Coast, with Kali Rubaii and Kenneth MacLeish.

2017 Collateral Afterworlds co-edited with Julie Livingston, a special issue of Social Text. Contributors: Anne Allison, Naisargi Dave, Angela Garcia, Lisa Stevenson, Zoë Wool. Afterward by Elizabeth Povinelli. 

2013 Soldier Exposures in Technical Publics, Zoë Wool ed., a critical archival image essay for Public Culture’s media and literature website www.publicbooks.org. Contributors: Beatrice Jaureguri, Caren Kaplan, Paul Lawrie, Beth Linker, Ken MacLeish, Joe Masco, David Serlin, Zoë Wool.  

Interviews and Discussions

2022 How Not to Be Consumed with Aimie Hamraie and Maria Hupfield. Blackwood Gallery's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge broadsheet, issue 13.

2021 Waste is Not a Metaphor for Racist Dispossession: The black feminist Marxism of Marisa Solomon. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 7 (2): 1–5.

2020 Twitter interview with Laurence Ralph about his book and accompanying NYT Opdoc film The Torture Letters, Scholar Strike, Sept 9.  

2019 Ethnography of Things Military: A Roundtable with Sarah Hautzinger, Kevin McSorley, and Eyal Ben-Ari, Ethnos.

2017 Ethnography and the Militarization of the American Dream, invited discussion with Gina Perez for the American Anthropologist blog Public Anthropologies.

2014 Life Support, with Nick Dupree, an invited entry for the Cabinet of Commonplaces project at Somatosphere.org, http://somatosphere.net/2014/02/life-support.html

Commentaries

2022 Military Burn Pits are not Just a Veteran Issue: Without Iraqis and Afghans, the PACT Act becomes an alibi for environmental injustice with Kali Rubaii. Medium.com September 21. 

2018 US Military Burn Pits and the Politics of Health, with Kenneth MacLeish, MAQ's Critical Care blog. http://medanthroquarterly.org/2018/08/01/us-military-burn-pits-and-the-politics-of-health/ 

2018           What I Wish I Knew about Anthropology and Disability: Toward a more Enabling Anthropology, with Michelle Friedner and Devva Katsnitz, Anthrodendum.org.

2013      Thinking about the Somethings to be done about Syria, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2013/09/02/thinking-about-the-somethings-to-be-done-about-syria/ 

Essays

2017          The Relativity of Toxicity, Anthro{dendum}.

2016          The Erasures of “Thank you for your service”,  Savageminds.org.

2013          Empathy: A Companionate Redux, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2013/12/31/empathy-a-companionate-redux/ 

2011           What Tim Hetherington Offered to Anthropology, Savageminds.org  https://savageminds.org/2011/04/20/what-tim-hetherington-offered-to-anthropology/ 

2011          Cost of War: Doing the Numbers, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2011/06/30/costs-of-war-doing-the-numbers/ 

2011        Valuing Life, Death and Disability: Sorting People in the New York Times, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2011/11/06/valuing-life-death-and-disability-sorting-people-in-the-new-york-times/comment-page-1/ 

2010 HTS and Anthropology: Political Terrain, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2010/07/02/hts-and-anthropology-political-terrain/ 

2009  Language and the Media in Fort Hood, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2009/11/24/language-and-the-media-in-fort-hood/

2009          Raw and cooked facts in Wikileaks “Afghan War Diaries 2004-2010”, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2010/07/28/raw-and-cooked-facts-in-wikileaks-afghan-war-diaries-2004-2010/ 

2009 The US Military and the Social Life of War, with Erin Finley and Kenneth MacLeish, Anthropology News. In Focus: Veteran Identity 50(5): 29.

2009 PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury: Trauma Inside-Out, Neuroanthropology.net, September 22nd 

Pedagogical Writing 

2020 Introducing the Collective Anthro Mini Lectures Project for #COVIDcampus, Co-authored with Page West. https://anthrodendum.org/2020/03/16/introducing-the-collective-anthro-mini-lectures-project-for-covidcampus/

2018           Check Your Syllabus 101: Disability Access Statements https://anthrodendum.org/2018/08/13/check-your-syllabus-101-disability-access-statements/

2016        #teachingthedisaster, Savageminds.org https://savageminds.org/2016/11/11/teachingthedisaster/

Research Creation 

2022 Toronto/Tkoronto ChemMap, with Sophia Jaworski (lead) and student contributors Sarah Chen, Meryum Fatima Hassan, Kat Richard, Isha Sharma, Meg Sheridan. This project includes: 

• A google map with geocoded petrochemical storage and manufacturing facility locations.


• A downloadable data set, a critical user guide that situates these sites within the infrastructural history of settler colonialism in Toronto.


• An interactive StoryMap which further elaborates the links between these sites and the intertwined histories of settler colonialism and petrocapitalism. 


https://www.twigresearchkitchen.org/portfolio-item/toronto-tkaronto-chemmap/

2021 Four Movements of Diffusion: Speculative Reflections on Toxicity and the Mississauga Derailment, with Sophia Jaworski. Blackwood Gallery's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge broadsheet, issue 9, June: 8-11. https://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/publications/sduk/diffusing/four-movements-of-diffusion

2021 TWIG Research Kitchen, a feminist space for experimental research in the social sciences and humanities on the topics of toxicity, infrastructure, and waste. https://www.twigresearchkitchen.org/

2020 Project Pleasantville, A digital exhibit of the Houston Flood Museum exploring the histories of Black civic engagement and environmental racism in Houston's Pleasantville neighborhood. https://houstonfloodmuseum.org/timeline-of-pleasantville/

Anthro Mini-Lectures, A collection of short lectures and accompanying pedagogical resources to support online teaching in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Co-created with Page West. https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/64044/overview

Art Collaborations

2012 Consultant on phenomenology and PTSD for This is War, a play by Hanna Moscovitch, Directed by Richard Rose. Tarragon Theatre, Toronto. 

2011-2015 Consulting Anthropologist for elsewhere, a dance project exploring quintessential questions of place, time, and human attachments from award winning Canadian dancer and choreographer Heidi Strauss of adelheid dance company.

Selected Presentations and Talks

Conference Papers

2023 Ecologies of Violence, Discussant. American Anthropological Association, Seattle, WA. November 13th. 

2019 Extensions of War: US military burn pits and the analytics of toxicity, American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, CA. November 22nd. 

Homunculus Revolts: Re-figuring the neurological subject, Explorations in the Medical Humanities, Columbia University, March 30th. 

2018 Logics of Combustion: Toxicity, Commensurability, and the Biopolitics of US War Zone Waste, with Kenneth MacLeish, American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA. November 16th.

The Worthiness of Disability: Economization and Exception in Veteran and Non-Veteran Worlds, American Ethnological Association, Philadelphia, PA, March 23rd. 

2017 Discussant for Contemporary Entanglements of Care and Punishment, American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, November 30th.  

2016 Care and the Significance of Others: Veteran Family Caregiving and the Worlds Beyond, American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 19th.

The Veteran Family Caregiver Program and Life After War, Society for Medical Anthropology-Society for Applied Anthropology join meeting, Vancouver, BC, April  2nd.

2015 After War, American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO, November 19th

2014 Care: Afterwar Work for Life, Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Detroit, MI, May 10th 

Soldier Salvage: Intimate Technologies and the Making of Men, Gender, Bodies, Technologies, Virginia Tech, April  2nd 

2012 In-durable Sociality: Precarious Life in Common and the Temporal Limits of the Social and organizer of “Enduring in the Verge: Being with Others in the Boundaries of the Social” invited panel with Anne Allison, Naisargi Dave, Veena Das, and Elizabeth Povinelli, 109th American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 17th 

Precarious Solitude: Deadly Attachments and Life Preserving Aloneness at a U.S. Military Hospital. Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting, Providence, May 11th 

2011 The Miniscule War: The Common Sense of Fragments At Walter Reed Army Medical Center 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, November 19th 

2010 Earth Shattering: Movement as Worlding for U.S. Soldiers Marked by Combat, Circulation: 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 17th

2009 Subjects of Sacrifice: The Im/possibilities of Everyday Life at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, The End/s of Anthropology: 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, December 3rd

Deck the Walls: Beyond Institutionality at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Canadian Anthropological Association Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie/American Ethnological Society Joint Annual Meeting, Vancouver, May 13th-16th

2008 Combative Engagements: An Ethnographic Approach to Anti-Anthropology and the U.S. Military, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 19th

2007 Whose Afraid of the Persian Gulf: Locating Fear in the War on Terror, Canadian Anthropological Association Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie/American Ethnological Society Joint Annual Meeting, Toronto, May 8th-12th

“Home Grown”: Globalization and Its Radical Others in The Discourse of the War on Terror, Annual Meeting of the Georgetown Linguistics Society, Washington D.C., April 1st  

“On the Economy”: Discursive Positionings and Neoliberal Subjects on a U.S. Army Base, Language and Neoliberalism Symposium Toronto, February 18th-19th 

2006 Operationalizing Iraqi Freedom, 7th International Organizational Discourse Conference: Identity, Ideology and Idiosyncrasy, International Centre for Research in Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change, Amsterdam July 26th -July 28th  

2005 Grammars of Violence, Grammars of Modernity: The Discourse of the Intifada in the Globe and Mail and September 11th Terrorist Talk, Racial Violence and the Colour Line in the New World Order, Dalhousie University, April 1st-2nd

Invited Presentations and Workshops

2023 Research Ethics and the Push to Accelerate. Acceleration Consortium Conference, Toronto, August 23rd.

Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Lunch on Digital Humanities Labs and Makerspaces, UTM. March 15th. 

2023 Alterlife UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint workshop. Mill Valley, CA. February 1-3. 

2021 POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Workshop, discussant for Kali Rubaii's (Counter)-resurgency: Outlasting the war on terror in Iraq. George Washington University, Department of Political Science. November 19th.  

All that is Solid Burns into Smoke: Toxic Logistics, Modern Warmaking, and US Military Burn Pits in Iraq. Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, San Antonio. November 12th. 

2020 Veteran Therapeutics: The Perverse Promise of Military Medicine and The Possibilities of Disability, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, February 3rd.

Anthro Mini-Lectures Project, Open Educational Resources Virtual Summit project showcase, Online, July 23rd.  

2019 Veteran Therapeutics and the Possibilities of Disability, Disability Studies @Rice Lecture Series, November 11th.   

All that is Solid Burns Into Smoke: US Military Burn Pits and the Logics of Combustion, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, October 14th.

After War: anthropological perspectives on life after war injury, Association of the US Army, Houston, TX, October 8th.  

Veteran Therapeutics: Military Medicine’s Perverse Promise and the Possibilities of Disability, Global Health Colloquium, Princeton University, March 29th. 

Open Grief: Notes Toward a Weak Theory of Mourning, Affect, and Sociality. Bodies of Knowledge Working Group, Humanities Council, Princeton University, March 28th.

The Significance of Others: Straight Time and the Securing of Life for Post-9/11 US Veterans. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, February 11th.

Perverse Vitalities: Veteran Therapeutics, The Possibilities of Disability, and the Promise of Military Medicine in the Post-9/11 U.S. Department of the Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, January 23rd. 

2018 Mourning, Affect, Sociality: On the Possibilities of Open Grief. Care at the Nexus of Power and Praxis: Anthropological Engagements with Caring Otherwise, Wenner-Gren Funded Workshop, St. Louis, October 4-7th. 

Socialities of Care and the Significance of Others:  Kinship, Care, and Queerness in US Veteran Disability Worlds. Health Humanities, University of Toronto, Scarborough. February 28th. 

2017 Straight Time, Base Technologies, and the Feeling of No Feeling: Queer Attachments and Disability in the Aftermath of American War. Medicine and its Objects workshop series, University of Chicago, October 25th. 

Straight Time: Rehabilitation, Heteronormativity, and The Politics of Cure. Medical Humanities Student Symposium. Rice University, November 5th. 

Informal Caregiving for Post-9/11 Veterans, Grand Rounds at the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC), VA New Jersey Health System, July 26th. 

2016 Being “No Less of a Person”: Intimacy, Disability, and the Limits of Life After War. Colloquium talk, Duke University, March 7th. 

Veterans Observing/Veterans Observed. A roundtable discussion with Roy Scranton, David Jay, and Shelly Rambo. Duke University Forum for Scholars and Publics. March 8th. 

Rethinking Care and the Military Family: Policy, Practice, and Alternatives for Caregiving. Invited lecture, DeBakey VA, Houston, May 2nd

2014 Scenes from the American Afterwar: Intimacy, Injury, and Forms of Life Worth Living. Gender, Sexuality and Health Symposium, Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Medicine, Columbia University, September 17th 

War and Intimacy, invited workshop at University of Colorado, Boulder, April 24th-26th 

2013 Conjugal Couplehood and the Injured Soldier Body: Contours of Life in the American Afterwar. “Women & Health” Annual Women and Gender Studies Symposium, Rutgers University, Newark, March 6th 

2012 The Social Epidemiology of the New Wars invited workshop organized by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Chair in Global Health, Collège d'études mondiales, FMSH, Paris, December 16th-18th.

The Weight of Life in the Afterwar at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, University of Syracuse Anthropology Colloquium Lecture, October 1st 

2011 In Defense of Intimacy: Solider Identities and Masculinity in Today’s Military, with Aaron Belkin and Brian Selmeski, Annual Gender Studies Research Roundtable, Whitman College, November 1st.  

"For What You Do": Injured U.S. Soldiers and the Im-possibilities of Regret, Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto, Scarborough, February 17th 

The War Comes Home, The Costs of War Workshop, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, January 5th   

2010 Militarization Beyond Projects, Public Beyond Policy, Co-organizer, with Kenneth MacLeish, and moderator, 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20th

2009 Producing Patriots: An Economy of Patriotism at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Centre for Study of the United States, Munk Center for International Studies, Toronto, April 23rd

Panels Organized

2021 Ecologies of Empire, with Xan Chacko, 4S, Toronto, October 9th. 

2019 Beyond the Prosthetic Imaginary: New Intersections between STS and Disability Studies, an open panel stream co-organized with Stephanie Lloyd, 4S, New Orleans, September 6th. 

2018 TOUCH I: Tangible Difference, Worlding Techniques and TOUCH II: Contact, Ethics, Force, Co-organized with Tyler Zoanni, AAA meeting, San Jose, November 14th.

2013 Beyond PTSD: The U.S. Military and the Sequelae of War, Roundtable Discussion co-organized with Ken MacLeish, AAA meeting, Chicago, November 20th 

2012 Enduring in the Verge: Being with Others in the Boundaries of the Social Invited Panel,  AAA meeting, San Francisco, November 17th  

Sociality and Deadly Solitude: On Life, Death, and Being Alone, Co-organizer, with Kenneth MacLeish, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Providence, May 11th 

2009 Between Sovereign and Sacer: Ethnography Soldiers On, Co-organizer, with Kenneth MacLeish, AAA meeting, Philadelphia, December 3rd 

Workshops and Events Organized

2024 Collabowrite: wander + wonder + write writing retreat, TWIG Research Kitchen. Participants: Nisrin Elamin, Hi’ilei Hobart, Anne Spice, Bharat Venkat.  

2023 Workshop Rest: A radical sewing salon, No Panels Just Vibes Collective, Textile Museum, Toronto, Nov 16.  

2022 Collabowrite: wander + wonder + write writing retreat, TWIG Research Kitchen. Participants: Kristin Bois, Uahikea Maile, Sophie Stamotopolou-Robbins

2021 Ecologies of Empire Salon, TWIG Research Kitchen. Participants: Xan Chaco, Adrianna Garriga-López, Eleana Kim, Diana Pardo Pedraza, JT Roan. 

2019-20 Disability Studies @Rice. A year-long interdisciplinary event series featuring six events with cutting edge scholars and activists from across the country. Speakers: Eli Clare, Aimi Hamraie, Sandy Ho, Marcia O'Malley, Yvonne Pearson, Sami Schalk, Alice Wong

2019 Dis/ability and the City: Comparative Mapping of Experiences, Infrastructures, and Histories, an interactive research workshop co-organized with Martina Klausner & Tomás Criado and Ola Söderström, Berlin, May 28-29th.  

2017 Critical Care: Disability Interventions and Medical Humanities. A day-long symposium on the meanings of cure and care in the contexts of illness, injury, and disability. Kirsten Osterr and Cory Silverberg, Co-organizers. April 8, 2017.

2011 Picturing Soldiers: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Contemporary Soldier Photographs, A film screening and roundtable discussion on visual representations of soldiers in documentary media. Participants: Tim Hetherington, Lori Ginker, Jennifer Karady, and Suzanne Opton, Rhode Island School of Design, March 15th

Media appearances

2022         View to the U Podcast, UTM

https://soundcloud.com/user-642323930/zoe-wool?utm_source=clipboard&utmedium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing 

2020 Featured in What Strength Really Means When You’re Sick, Ed Yong. The Atlantic. October 9. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/trump-strength-coronavirus/616682/

2020     Interviewed for profile in Young Anthropology (UTM Anthropology undergraduate student journal) by Lydia Clarke Rehman. Young Anthropology (2): 43-45. 

2020      Quoted in “The time for empty solidarity statements is over”: U of T academics join Scholar Strike for Black Lives in Canada, Hannah Carty. The Varsity, September 13.  

2018 Interviewed on KPFT Houston's Pacifica station show Queer Voices about Trans Theory and Susan Stryker's Gray Warow lecture at Rice University. 

2017 Interview for New Books in Medicine podcast about After War.
Interview with Alex Golub for This Anthro Life podcast about blogging and public anthropology. 

2016 Interviewed about After War on Houston Matters, the afternoon show for KUHF the Houston NPR station, January 14th. 

2012 Featured guest on The Campbell Conversations with Grant Reeher, a 30-minute news interview show on Syracuse NPR affiliate WRVO, http://wrvo.org/post/zoe-wool-campbell-conversations, December 7th. 
Interviewed about my work for the website Post-War Watch, http://postwarwatch.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/zoe-h-wool-the-anthropology-of-veteran-healthcare, March 11th. 

2011 Interviewed by NPR Albany’s Capital District Bureau Chief Dave Lucas about the nature of injuries sustained by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan for a piece which aired July 28th   Quoted in Veterans may be too Expensive for the U.S. article in the World section of the Russian newspaper Isvestia, June 30th 

Fieldwork 

2018-2021 Life histories and archival research about environmental racism and Black world making in Houston's Pleasantville neighborhood.

2017-Ongoing Interviews with Texas and Louisiana veterans affected by exposure to US military burn pits in Iraq. 

2016-2019 Mechanical engineering labs at Rice University and rehabilitation research lab at TIRR Memorial Herman working on therapeutic and assistive robotics.

2013-2019 Multiple sites related to long-term informal care for injured veterans as well as disability communities. 

2007-2008 Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Fort Dix Army Base 

2006 Army Fisher House at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center 

Professional affiliations

American Anthropological Association 

Society for Medical Anthropology  

Society for Cultural Anthropology 

Society for the Social Study of Science

Language skills

Spanish: proficient reading and aural skills

French: beginner-level reading and aural skills