The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce the selection of the 2023 Data Fluencies Dissertation Research Grantees. These five researchers—Zhaowen Guo, Sanjana Krishnan, Jason Ludwig, Julian Quiros, and Reed Van Schenck—will each receive $15,000 in grants to develop research on information, data, technology, and social justice.

The following are recipients of the 2023 Data Fluencies Dissertation Research Grants:

Zhaowen Guo
Zhaowen Guo’s project will examine the extent of government investments in digital and physical surveillance and investigate the causes and consequences of China’s surveillance state.
Sanjana Krishnan
Sanjana Krishnan’s project will study the political economy and material impacts of data, technology, and algorithms, and investigate how they work in cities of the Global South.
Jason Ludwig
Jason Ludwig’s project will examine, through a historical analysis, how government officials, computer experts, and activists sought to advance racial equality through computing in the postwar United States.
Julian Quiros
Julian Quiros’s project will theorize and describe the production, analysis, and dissemination of administrative data in the United States Public Child Welfare System.
Reed Van Schenck
Reed Van Schenck’s project will focus on digital networks in the United States with a particular interest in the effects of platform governance upon reactionary online cultures.
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