Fellows

Reed Van Schenck is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. Their dissertation research, “The Reactionary Web: Digital Media and the Reconstitution of White Supremacist Networks,” focuses on white supremacist digital networks in the United States with a particular interest in the effects of platform governance upon reactionary online cultures. Their interdisciplinary approach bridges critical-cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and media studies to evaluate the unsung ramifications of the far-right’s rise, regulation, and reconstitution.

Julian Quiros is a PhD candidate at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctoral fellow in the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College. His dissertation, “The Social Formation of Administrative Data,” is the first entry into a planned multiphase study, taking a cultural studies approach to theorizing and describing the production, analysis, and dissemination of administrative data in the United States Public Child Welfare System.

Jason Ludwig is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. His dissertation, “Automating Blackness: Race, Computing, and Politics in the Postwar United States,” examines how government officials, computer experts, and activists sought to advance racial equality through computing in the postwar United States, and how this history can help advance understanding of digitized statecraft and algorithmic discrimination.