Paige Edmiston

Paige Edmiston is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology. Her research focuses on how digital technologies are impacting the U.S. medical system and the implications of this “digital health transformation” for access and equity. Her dissertation project is an ethnographic investigation of how automation is affecting the work of diabetes for both health workers and people with diabetes in the American health system.

Prior to graduate school, Paige worked with startups developing new medical devices and digital health technologies.

Paige's advisor is Alison Cool.

Publications

• 2022. Dantzer, Alexandra and Edmiston, Paige.  “Introducing: Yours Sincerely, An Uncertain Anthropologist.” American Ethnologist.
• 2021. Edmiston, Paige. What’s Behind Match Day’s Algorithm? SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine. March 2021
• 2021. Edmiston, Paige.  Dear Sylvie: A Handful of Letters to Nearly Perfect Strangers. Anthropology and Humanism.

Awards

2021 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship