Biella Coleman is currently an anthropology graduate student at the
University of Chicago working on her Ph.D. research on the ethics and
politics of the free software movement. She lives in San Francisco
where she carries out ethnographic research going to free software
meetings,
interviewing programmers, as well as conducting online
research. Her academic endeavors have focused primarily on religion,
medicine, and technology, especially their ethical, legal, and social
dimensions. She has conducted research in the Dominican Republic and
Guyana on religious healing and the formation of new social
identities. After finishing this project, she would like to
research the role of information technologies in transforming treatment
management and conceptions of illness.