Dr. Maga Miranda (she/they) is an interdisciplinary 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.
Their current book project, Intimate Data: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care, is based on a decade of acompañamiento with the domestic workers movement in California and explores 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 digital media and internet studies as well as collaborative public humanities work that bridges scholarly research and community organizing.
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:
Digital media and internet studies, Surveillance and datafication, Digital media activism, Community-engaged research methods, Zines and media practice, Marxism, Los Angeles
