• 2025 “Political Rationalities of Security” (with Alli Appelbaum and Stephen J. Collier) in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Security Studies, edited by Thorsten Bonacker, Eckart Conze and Beatrice de Graaf. New York: Oxford University Press 
  • 2023 “A Regulatory State of Exception,” in The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics, edited by Gil Eyal and Thomas Medvetz. New York: Oxford University Press 
    • Revised version in An Anthropology of Immunization: Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective (Bergahn Press, 2025), edited by Rebecca Irons, Sahra Gibbon, Jo Cook and Aaron Parkhurst. 
  • 2022 “‘The Supply Chain Must Continue,’” in The Long Year: A 2020 Reader, edited by Thomas Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom. New York: Columbia University Press 
  • 2020 “Limn: Experimenting with Collaboration” (with Stephen J. Collier, Christopher Kelty, and Martin Hoyem), in Collaborative Anthropology Today: A Collection of Exceptions, edited by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • 2019  “What is an Epidemic Emergency?” in The Anthropology of Epidemics, edited by Ann Kelly, Frédéric Keck and Chrystos Linteros. London and New York: Routledge.
  • 2015  “Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary,” in Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power, edited by Sheila Jasanoff and San-Hyung Kim. University of Chicago Press, 300–320
  • 2012 “Epidemic Intelligence: Toward a Genealogy of Global Health Security,” in Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty, edited by Bruce Magnussen and Zahi Zallous. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 44-70
  • 2011  “How Claims to Know the Future Are Used to Understand the Present: Techniques of Prospection in the Field of National Security” (with Grégoire Mallard), in Social Knowledge in the Making, edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross and Michele Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 339–378
  • 2011  “Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness” (with Stephen J. Collier), in Political Matter: Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life, edited by Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 243–266
  • 2010 “Health, Security, and New Biological Threats: Reconfigurations of Expertise” (with Stephen J. Collier), Handbook of Medical Sociology, 6th edition, edited by Chloe Bird, Peter Conrad, and Allan Fremont, and Stefan Timmermans. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 363-379
  • 2008 “From Population to Vital System: National Security and the Changing Object of Public Health,” in Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question, edited by Stephen J. Collier and Andrew Lakoff. New York: Columbia University Press, 33-60
  • 2008 “The Vulnerability of Vital Systems: How Critical Infrastructure Became a Security Problem” (with Stephen J. Collier), in The Politics of Securing the Homeland: Critical Infrastructure, Risk and Securitization, edited by Myriam Dunn and Kristian Soby Kristensen. New York: Routledge, 17-39
  • 2007 “The Right Patients for the Drug: Pharmaceutical Circuits and the Codification of Illness,” in Olga Amsterdamska, Edward Hackett, Michael Lynch, Judy Wacjman (eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 741–760
  • 2006 “Techniques of Preparedness,” in Torin Monahan, ed., Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. New York: Routledge, 265–274
  • 2005 “On Regimes of Living,” in Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 22-39
  • 2005 “The Private Life of Numbers: Database firms and the Government of Expertise in Argentina,” in Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, edited by Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell, 194-213
    • Revised version: “High Contact: Pharmaceutical Relations in the Rio de la Plata,” in Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman (eds.), Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices Durham: Duke University Press (2006)