Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is a New York-based anthropologist and film-maker with interests in infrastructure, waste, the environment, platform capitalism, the home, and neurodivergence. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), won five major book awards and explores what happens when, as Palestinians are increasingly forced into proximity with their own wastes and with those of their occupiers, waste is transformed from “matter out of place,” per prevailing anthropological wisdom, into matter with no place to go—or its own ecology. Her second book, which explores the impacts of Airbnb on property ownership in Athens, Greece, is under contract with Duke University Press. She has begun work on a next project on the rise of “demand avoidance” as diagnosis and lived experience for autistic people. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard College and she serves on the editorial teams of Cultural Anthropology and Critical AI. More on her scholarship and film-making can be found at sophiastamatopoulourobbins.com.