Dr. Magally “Maga” Miranda is a Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Intercollegiate Department of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Pomona College. She holds a Ph.D. in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA and a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz, where she double majored in Feminist Studies and Community Studies. She is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist whose research and writing span Chicanx/Latinx studies, critical data studies, and feminist political economy, with a particular focus on care work, surveillance, and labor migration.
Dr. Miranda’s current book project, Intimate Data: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care, examines how documentation and datafication shape the social, political, and epistemic conditions of care, particularly for Latina domestic workers. Positioned at the intersection of critical data studies, feminist political economy, and Chicanx/Latinx studies, the book argues that datafication has always been entangled with colonial and racialized logics that mark certain bodies as suspect and Other. It also explores how contemporary workers resist and repurpose these data regimes, developing popular data practices and advancing a radical politics of care.
Their scholarship appears in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, International Journal of Communication, and Critical Ethnic Studies. They have also contributed to The Nation, Truthout, Verso, and New Left Review. Dr. Miranda currently serves on the editorial board of Spectre, where she is particularly interested in Latinx labor politics and the intellectual genealogies of Chicana Marxist and feminist thought.
Dr. Miranda is also deeply committed to public humanities work that bridges scholarly research and community-based knowledge through collaborative media practices including zines, podcasts, and social media as tools for critical inquiry, creative expression, and public engagement.
RESEARCH interests
Community-engaged Research & public humanities
feminist political economy, care work & the domestic work industry
media and technology
critical data studies
memory work
chicana political Thought
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