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*, investigates how technologies of surveillance and algorithmic management have reshaped contemporary care labor in ways that reflect longer histories of colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism. The project explores how digital platforms commodify intimacy and restructure domestic labor through tools like algorithmic matching, nanny cams, and background checks, transforming both care work and the lives of immigrant Latina workers. Drawing from ethnographic research, oral histories, and collaborative work with domestic worker organizations, she theorizes how Latina workers resist and repurpose these tools, illuminating practices of technological refusal, community-based knowledge, and grassroots care infrastructures.
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.

Classes

Technofuturos: Chicanxs/Latinxs and Technology in Society and the Future

Course Description
1.25 hours.
This course offers students a survey of interdisciplinary tools to understand the intersections of Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Science and Technology Studies. In the early days of the internet, tech boosters purported that the connections afforded by the World Wide Web would make racial, gender, sexual, national difference obsolete. In the ensuing decades, scholars have sought to consider how inequality often persists or is deepened by high tech infrastructures. Through scholarship about Chicanx/Latinx life in the web of science and technology, students will develop their ability to analyze questions of power, (in)justice, and resistance and imagine radically alternative futures.

Syllabus
Chicanas and Latinas in Contemporary Society

Surveys the historical and contemporary experiences of Chicanas and Latinas in the U.S. with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, nationality, and how these intersect with gender, gender identities, sexualities, and class, in their lives as individuals and as members of communities.
The course centers Chicana/Latina agency and resistance in the US against the backdrop of historical and contemporary racism, colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.

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Latinx Urbanism: Mexican and Central American Voices from Los Angeles

Lecture
2 hours.
This course examines key issues in urban poverty such as work, housing, and school and neighborhood segregation, with an emphasis on Mexican and Central Americans in Los Angeles. Students in this class can expect to learn about some of the major social conditions affecting people living in poverty, as well as the underlying social forces that contribute to them. We will learn about the political economy of poverty as well as the strategies that people living in poverty use to effect lasting social change, including policy and social movements.
This course invites students to listen deeply to the voices of Mexican and Central American people living in poverty in Los Angeles. Throughout the quarter, students will come up close and personal with the subjects of the course through readings, media, and invited speakers. A field exercise project will give students the opportunity to develop a research project with consideration for protocols for ethically and respectfully engaging with working class and impoverished Latinx communities.

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