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Amanda Furiasse, PhD, is assistant professor of digital humanities and medical humanities in the Department of Humanities and Politics at Nova Southeastern University. Her research interests converge around religion, technology, and medicine with a particular focus on AI's applications in medicine and healthcare. She is currently the senior producer of Florida 2100: Tales of Tomorrow, a futurist podcast and multimedia project that explores creative solutions to pressing ethical and cultural challenges that the state of Florida is facing in the 21st century, host of the Department of Humanities and Politics' Applied Humanities Podcast, and faculty advisor of the Center for the Applied Humanities' IN-SIGHT Student Fellowship.

She has published numerous articles, including in the Journals for Technoethics, AI & Society, American Academy of Religion, Africana Religions, Cultural Analytics, and Museums & Social Issues. She was the co-Director of the Contagion, Religion, and Cities Project at the Center for the Study of Religion and the City at Morgan State University, senior producer and co-host of the Political Theology Network's Assembly podcast, and public fellow at Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion.