Dr. Maga Miranda (she/they) is a Chau Mellon Postdoc and an interdisciplinary scholar in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies. Maga is currently working on a book project, Intimate Data: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care, exploring how regimes of documentation, datafication and surveillance penetrate spaces long considered private such as homes, bodies, and the relational domains of care, transforming them into objects of knowledge and administrative power. Maga is interested in critical media & internet studies.
Their writing has appeared 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 Journal.
Dr. Miranda is 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.
Follow me on IG: @dra_magamiranda
RESEARCH interests
latina labor and comm
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
los angeles