Danya Glabau is a medical anthropologist and STS scholar researching health activism, the medical economy, and how human bodies become valuable data. She directs the Technology Ethics undergraduate curriculum at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and also teaches in the Integrated Design and Media graduate program. She earned her PhD from the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell University.
Her first book, Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care (2022, University of Minnesota Press), examined how food allergy activists get involved in scientific research and political advocacy, and how race, class, and gender shape their advocacy goals. Her second book, Cyborg (2024, MIT Press; co-authored with Laura Forlano, Northeastern University), offers a 21st century introduction to cyborg theory in contexts like work, medicine and disability, art and design, and feminist theory. Her latest research investigates how new parents use parenting advice, with a focus on how digital resources, apps, and devices shape modern ideas about what makes a “good” parent.