Jeanne Oui is a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. She is a sociologist and a Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar interested in digital agriculture and environmental change. Her PhD in sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris) investigates the development of digital technologies in France to face environmental concerns through a multi-sited fieldwork among scientists, businesses, and crop farmers. As a postdoctoral researcher in the NSF-funded project “Societal Impact of Farm Networking”, she works with Prof. Steven Wolf (Cornell University, DNRE). Jeanne studies digital platforms in agriculture that connect farmers to off-farms businesses through various case studies: 1) digital traceability among the agro-food industry to optimize value chains; 2) digital technologies to implement environmental regulation on farms to achieve a better nitrogen management and water quality. At the crossroads of STS, sociology of agriculture, sociology of digital tools, and environmental studies, her work addresses broader questions such as the governance of agro-food systems; digital solutionism to face environmental concerns; environmental data infrastructure; political economy of digital innovation in agriculture; and digital agriculture in the long-term history of farm industrialization.
