Dr. Magally "Maga" Miranda Dr. Magally “Maga” Miranda (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, community-engaged scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Keeping Place for Culture. Most recently, Maga served as a Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Pomona College in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies. They earned their Ph.D. in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from UCLA. and a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz in Feminist Studies and Community Studies.
Her research interests center on immigrant labor, domestic work, community-engaged research methods, and the intersections of space, place, gentrification, arts, culture, and placekeeping.
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:
intimate labors, immigrant labor, latinx digital cultures and Digital/new media, critical internet studies, media activism, Community-engaged research methods, Zines, memory work, marxist critical theory, Los Angeles
