| Natasha Myers | |
| Birth Date: | 1974 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Occupation: | professor, anthropologist, science and technology studies scholar |
| Education: | McGill University, York University, MIT |
| Discipline: | social and cultural anthropology, science and technology studies |
| Notable Works: | Rendering Life Molecular |
| Principal Ideas: | Planthropocene |
Natasha Myers is an associate professor of anthropology at York University.[1] In 2016 she coined the term "Planthroposcene".[2] [3] Her first book, Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter is an ethnography of protein crystallographers and discusses how scientists teach one another how to sense the molecular realm.[4] This book won the 2016 Robert Merton Book Prize from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.[5] She received her BSc in biology from McGill University, a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies and her PhD in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology & Society (HASTS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]