Dr. Magally "Maga" Miranda (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, community-engages scholar and Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Pomona College. They earned their PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA and a BA in Feminist Studies and Community Studies from UC Santa Cruz. Their interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of race, gender, science and technology, and digital media.
Their current book project, Data Intimacies: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care, reflects a decade of acompañamiento with the domestic workers’ movement, and explores the datafication of domestic labor, its transformation into an object of data-driven knowledge and administrative power, and the activist media-making practices of Latina domestic workers.
Their writing has appeared in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, New Media and Society, and Critical Ethnic Studies as well as public-facing venues such as The Nation, Truthout, Verso, and the New Left Review. She serves on the editorial board of Spectre, a journal of Marxist theory, strategy, and analysis.
research areas:
latinx digital cultures, Digital media, critical internet studies, globalized care labor, media activism, Community-engaged research methods, Zines and media practice, marxist critical theory, Los Angeles
