Research Affiliates
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New York University
Research Interests: American South, Black Geographies, Ethnographic Methods, Identity, Labor and Work
Oliver Banner
she/her/hers
University of Washington, Director of Strategy and Operations, CREATE Center
Research Interests: Disability, Race, and Technology; Histories of disability and race as they intersect with histories of technology/activism; Theories of radical accessibility
Emily (Em) Doffing
She/They
California State University, Long Beach
Research Interests: Participatory action research, underrepresented college students, higher education, activism, and popular culture
Yvonne M. Eadon
she/her
Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (CITAP) at UNC-Chapel Hill
Research Interests: conspiracy theories, gender & sexuality, TikTok subcultures
Wilfredo Flores
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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Settler Colonial Studies, Infrastructure Studies, Digital Studies
Sharon Pearl
she/her/hers
Drexel University
Research interests: AI ethics, technology ethics, health humanities, surveillance studies, genetic testing
Maurika Smutherman
she/her/hers
North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Digital Media, Black Feminism, Critical Making, Materiality
Anuli Akanegbu
Dev K. Bose
he/him
University of California, Santa Cruz
Research interests: writing program administration; disability studies; multimodal composition; business and technical writing; cultural rhetorics; qualitative research methods
Lydia X.Z. Brown
they/them
Georgetown University
Research Interests: algorithmic harm, critical disability studies, surveillance and carcerality, eugenics
Jina DuVernay
she/her
Gwinnett County Public Library
Research Interests: History and community in Black literature, Black Librarians and Archivists, Black joy
Val Elefante
she/they
Research Interests: Feminist and queer theory, Participatory & democratic governance, Co-design/Design Justice, Community-driven content moderation and AI, the Decentralized Web
Timotheus “T.J.” Gordon Jr.
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Institute on Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois Chicago
Research Interests: Disability Identity and Blackness; Sexual and Gender identity pride/education for disabled people; Inclusion in Higher Education; Inclusion in Sports, Art, Entertainment, and E-Sports; Using Writing, Multimedia and Social Media to Tell Advocacy/Disability Pride Stories
Kimberly Hassel
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Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona
Research Interests: youth culture; digital anthropology; digital culture; Afro-Japanese encounters; contemporary Japan
Petra Molnar
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Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University; Refugee Law Lab, York University
Research Interests: migration and surveillance technologies; international human rights law; border technologies and governance