Who do you claim as your canonical ancestors in science and technology studies (STS)? In asking this question this panel aims to examine the history of STS thought by unpacking who are canonized, how they come to be recognized as the canonical figure of STS, and with what their research interests are concerned. In “Anthropology and the Savage Slot” Michel-Rolph Trouillot (2003) presents an intellectual crisis which postmodernism poses for anthropology, a crisis for its structural representation of the savage vs. the West and its linear progress of human civilization. To survive this crisis, Trouillot urges anthropologists to unearth and question the “savage slots” by reexamining “the construction of the Otherness upon which anthropology is premised” (p. 19). Prior to our current uncertain present and future of a global pandemic and a deeply-polarized U.S. politics, many STS scholars have vigorously debated whether STS is responsible for, or resistant against, the post-truth era (Lynch, 2017; Sismondo, 2017; Fujimura & Holmes, 2019). I seek to further advance this discussion by drawing on Trouillot’s proposition to critically examine upon what premise this discipline is professionalized, what forms of knowledge is produced and canonized or what forms of knowledge come to count as STS, what questions, practices and methods are deemed worthy of asking and doing, and what areas of the world are mainly covered in, or excluded from, STS research. In doing so, this panel seeks to decenter STS and critically examine with what historical and political forces STS are entangled. Finally, the panel invites scholars to contemplate: If you can claim your own kin in STS, who would that be? 
References
Fujimura, J. H., & Holmes, C. J. (2019, December). Staying the Course: On the Value of Social Studies of Science in Resistance to the “Post‐Truth” Movement. In Sociological Forum (Vol. 34, pp. 1251-1263).
Lynch, M. (2017). STS, symmetry and post-truth. Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 593-599.
Sismondo, S. (2017). Post-truth?. Social studies of science, 47(1), 3.
Trouillot, M. R. (2003). Anthropology and the savage slot: The poetics and politics of otherness. In Global transformations (pp. 7-28). Palgrave Macmillan, New York.