Inking of Immunity

David C. Lane is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. He holds a Ph. D. in sociology from the University of Delaware. His monograph, The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers was recently released on Rutgers University Press. His research articles on tattoo work appear in Deviant Behavior and the Sociology...

From Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland and currently resides in Svendborg, Denmark. Maya Sialuk is a traditional Inuit tattoo artist, private researcher in Inuit's intangible culture and religion, teacher and lecturer and has over 20 years of experience in the tattoo profession. In 2010, she founded the tattoo and research project Inuit Tattoo Traditions. Inuit Tattoo Traditions covers the Inuit territories...

Maya Sialuk is from Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland and currently resides in Svendborg, Denmark. Maya Sialuk is a traditional Inuit tattoo artist, private researcher in Inuit's intangible culture and religion, teacher and lecturer and has over 20 years of experience in the tattoo profession. In 2010, she founded the tattoo and research project Inuit Tattoo Traditions. Inuit Tattoo Traditions covers the In...

Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Siena College, in Loudonville, NY. She is the author of Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body (NYU Press, 2015), as well as many other articles on tattooing, and other subcultures. Her forthcoming book, Digital Nomads Living on the Margins: Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs in the Gig Economy (Emerald Publi...

Dion Kaszas is an Nlaka’pamux cultural tattoo practitioner and a leader in the revival of Indigenous tattooing in Canada. He has been tattooing professionally since 2009 and started the revival of Nlaka’pamux tattooing in 2012. Dion travels to National and International events, conferences, and tattoo festivals representing Indigenous tattooing in Canada. Dion's passion for tattooing extends beyon...

Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History & American Studies at the University of Essex. His research focuses on using art history as a lens to understand the history of western tattooing from the 17th century onward, specifically in the ""professional era"" which began in the 1880s and continues today. You can find him on Twitter @mattlodder, and learn more about his research here: http...

Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History & American Studies at the University of Essex. His research focuses on using art history as a lens to understand the history of western tattooing from the 17th century onward, specifically in the "professional era" which began in the 1880s and continues today. You can find him on Twitter @mattlodder, and learn more about his research here: https:...

Ben Robitaille is an independent researcher specializing in pre-electric tattooing instruments. He lives in a tiny village in the northern Appalachians with his two kids and absolutely no pets. He studied at the University of Montreal from where he obtained a bachelors degree with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Latin American studies. In the course of his academic training, Ben got sidetra...

Anne Austin is an archaeologist whose research focuses on using human skeletal remains in conjunction with art and texts to understand ancient Egyptian culture and document medicine and disease in the past. While working in Egypt, Anne discovered the only known ancient Egyptian tattoos on a mummy with over 30 different tattoos. Anne's next research project will focus on the practice of tattooing i...

Dr. Gemma Angel is an interdisciplinary scholar specialising in the history and anthropology of the European tattoo, post-mortem tattoo collecting and preservation practices, artefacts manufactured from human skin, and medical museum collections of human remains. She completed her doctoral thesis at University College London in collaboration with the Science Museum in 2013, on a collection of 300...

Aaron Deter-Wolf is a Prehistoric Archaeologist with the Tennessee Division of Archaeology in Nashville, where his responsibilities include managing ancient Native American sites on State-owned lands and conducting archaeological excavations and research. In addition to his work in Tennessee, for the past decade Aaron has been a leading researcher in developing the archaeological study of tattooin...