Peer-reviewed journal articles
2025. Spackman, Christy, Katie Ulrich, Etienne Benson, and Andrea Ballestero. “Retooling: A Model of Sociotechnical Change for Turbulent Times.” Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 11(3): 71–97.
2025. “Flexibility as Theory of Change in the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry.” Anthropological Quarterly 98(2): 359-386.
2023. “The Substitute and the Excuse: Growing Sustainability, Growing Sugarcane in São Paulo, Brazil.” Cultural Anthropology 38(4): 439-465. DOI: 10.14506/ca38.4.01.
2018. Lao J, Ulrich K, Johnson J, Newton B, Vashisht A, Wohlschlegel J, Krogan N, Toczyski D. “The Yeast DNA Damage Checkpoint Kinase Rad53 Targets the Exoribonuclease, Xrn1.” Genes, Genomes, Genetics 8(12): 3931-3944.
2017. Kim S, D’Acunto VF, Kokona B, Hofmann J, Cunningham NR, Bistline EM, Garcia FJ, Akhtar NM, Hoffman SH, Doshi SH, Ulrich KM, Jones NM, Bonini NM, Roberts CM, Link CD, Laue TM, Fairman R. “Sedimentation Velocity Analysis with Fluorescence Detection of Mutant Huntingtin Exon 1 Aggregation in Drosophila melanogaster and Caenorhabditis elegans.” Biochemistry 56(35): 4676-4688.
2016. Kokona B, May C, Cunningham N, Richmond L, Garcia F, Durante J, Ulrich K, Roberts C, Link C, Stafford W, Laue T, Fairman R. “Studying Polyglutamine Aggregation in Caenorhabditis elegans Using an Analytical Ultracentrifuge Equipped with Fluorescence Detection.” Protein Science 25(3): 605-17.
2015. Loveless TB, Topacio BR, Vashisht AA, Galaang S, Ulrich KM, Young BD, Wohlschlegel JA, Toczyski DP. “DNA Damage Regulates Translation through ß-TRCP Targeting of CReP.” PLoS Genetics 11(6): 1-22.
Book chapters
2021. Ford, Mel and Katie Ulrich. “Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making.” In Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis, eds. Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Edited series
2024. Ulrich, Katie, Alice Rudge, and Véra Ehrenstein, eds. 2024. “Substitution.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, November 12.
Selected blog posts (see CV for full list)
2025. “The Sugar Library.” Platypus: The CASTAC Blog, 3 June.
2025. “Sugarcane Poetics and Pleasures.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, February 11.
2024. “I’m (Not) Green.” Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, November 12.
2020. “Extraction Syllabus: A CENHS Fellows Interdisciplinary Project.” The CENHS Blog, 7 February.
Public-facing
2023. “Click to Transform Sugarcane.” An experiment in sharing and visualizing some of my research through interactive mapping. It was developed through conversations with the Ethnography Studio and Infrastructures of Ethnography project. Explore the interactive map here: https://bit.ly/clicksugarcane.
Book reviews
2024. Javiera Araya-Moreno, Melanie Ford, and Katie Ulrich. “Fact-making in Latin America: Reviewing Three Ethnographies of Truth, Doubt, and Expertise.” Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society.
Katie Ulrich, PhD 