Tanja Ahlin
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. T. Ahlin
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- t.ahlin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2374-5326
Tanja Ahlin is an Anthropologist of Health and Technology, and a Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam.
Tanja Ahlin is an Anthropologist of Health and Technology, and a Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar with a PhD from the University of Amsterdam.
As a recipient of the Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), she is investigating technology acceptance and resistance through the case of animal-shaped social robots in elder care. Her project, Paw Support, aims to support personalized long-term care, making space for new technologies as well as non-technological solutions to good care in times of scarce resources.
Previously, Tanja was a post-doctoral researcher in the 'Human Factor in New Technologies' at Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research, UvA. She is affiliated with the Center for Digital Anthropology, UCL, and is a Research Fellow the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development (AIGHD).
She also has a Master's degree in Health and Society in South Asia from Heidelberg University (Germany), a Bachelors of Anthropology from Athabasca University (Canada) and a Bachelors of Translation (English, French, Slovenian) from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Tanja's book Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives (Rutgers University Press, 2023) explores how digital technologies shape family care at a distance when living in the same place is not the most feasible option.
Postdoc
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Ahlin Tanja Mann Anna (2025), Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives: Re-theorizing resistance to social robots in healthcare, Social Science & Medicine 365: 117587 (117587).
- Ahlin Tanja (2025), Field Events: Re-conceptualizing the Field Through Research with Digital Technologies: Springer Nature Singapore. 247-261.
- Ahlin Tanja (2025), Locating and Problematising the ‘field’ through digital technologies. In: Hammett D. & Holmes N. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Field Research: Routledge.
- Ahlin Tanja Sen Kasturi Pols Jeannette (2024), Telecare that works: lessons on integrating digital technologies in elder care from Indian transnational families, Anthropology and Medicine 31: 265-280.
- van Voorst Roanne Ahlin Tanja (2024), Key points for an ethnography of AI: an approach towards crucial data, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11: 337.
- Ahlin T. (2023), Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
- Cabalquinto Earvin Ahlin Tanja (2023), Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events, International Journal of Cultural Studies 26: 802-821.
- Ahlin Tanja Hiddinga Anja (2023), Technological socialities: The impact of information and communication technologies on belonging among deaf and hard‐of‐hearing people, Sociology Compass 17: e13068.
- Ahlin Tanja Sen Kasturi (2019), Shifting duties: becoming ‘good daughters’ through elder care practices in transnational families from Kerala, India, Gender, Place and Culture 27: 1395-1414.
- Ahlin Tanja Li Fangfang (2019), From field sites to field events, Medicine Anthropology Theory 6: .
- Ahlin Tanja (2018), Frequent Callers: “Good Care” with ICTs in Indian Transnational Families, Medical Anthropology 39: 69-82.
- Ahlin Tanja (2018), What keeps Maya from eating? A case study of disordered eating from North India, Transcultural Psychiatry 55: 551-571.
- Ahlin Tanja (2017), Only Near Is Dear? Doing Elderly Care with Everyday ICTs in Indian Transnational Families, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 32: 85-102.
- Ahlin Tanja Nichter Mark Pillai Gopukrishnan (2016), Health insurance in India: what do we know and why is ethnographic research needed, Anthropology and Medicine 23: 102-124.
- Manderson Lenore Davis Mark Colwell Chip Ahlin Tanja (2015), On Secrecy, Disclosure, the Public, and the Private in Anthropology: An Introduction to Supplement 12, Current Anthropology 56: S183-S190.