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Dr. Simone Dennis is a lecturer in School of Archaeology and Anthropology at The Australian National University. Her main research interests coalesce around theories of embodiment, migration, memory and the senses, and contemporary relations between bodies, power and space. She explores these interests in and through several ongoing ethnographic projects. Since 2005, Dennis has been conducting work exploring the politics of nationhood in contemporary Australia and the ways in which they have played out around events like the Tampa Crisis on Christmas Island, which resulted in the first substantive work on the island produced in the anthropology Christmas Island: an Anthropological Study (2008). Dennis’ work among Persian women living in Australia and the U.K. is concerned with embodied experiences of migration and place, and focuses on the unspoken sensual patterning of memory amongst Persian women who have fled Iran. Dennis’ current research, begun in 2008, is based in major Australian research laboratories in which rodents feature as animal models for human disease research. The research is framed by an examination of the range of humanimal kinships operational in lab spaces, and the ways in which science produces its knowledge, and on the ways in which the operation of scientific knowing is brought to bear on scientific practitioners working with animal subjects, and on the bodies of animal subjects in the spaces of technoscience. This research will result in the publication of her third book, For the Love of Lab rats: Kinship, Humanimal Relations, and Good Scientific Research (in press). Additionally, Dennis has been researching smokers across Australia since 2003. This research looks closely at the ways in which This research looks closely at the ways in which smoking entails and occasions social and corporeal relationships with others in the context of new legislative arrangements and understandings of incalculable risk that have ushered in fundamental changes to smoking practice and agency.