Janet Abbate is a historian of computing with particular interests in gender and labor issues, internet history and policy, and computing as a science. She is Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.
Ben Allen is a historian of programming languages and related technologies, as well as a computer science educator. He teaches computer science at Berkeley City College.
Paul N. Edwards is a historian of information and its technologies. He writes and teaches about the history, politics, and culture of information infrastructures, especially computers and climate change data systems. He is Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society at Stanford University and Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan.
Nathan Ensmenger is Associate Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. His research explores the social, labor, and gender history of software workers. He is currently working on a book exploring the global environmental history of the electronic digital computer.
Mar Hicks is a historian who researches the history of computing, labor, technology, and queer science and technology studies. Their research focuses on how gender and sexuality bring hidden technological dynamics to light, and how the experiences of women and LGBTQIA people change the core narratives of the history of computing in unexpected ways. Hicks is Associate Professor of history of technology at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and associate editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
Halcyon M. Lawrence is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication and Information Design at Towson University. Her research focuses on speech intelligibility and the design of speech interactions for speech technologies, particularly for underrepresented and marginalized user populations.
Thomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University, where he specializes in the history of modern Asia, China, transnational technology, and race and ethnicity. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and holds a PhD from Columbia University.
Safiya Umoja Noble is Associate Professor in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
Benjamin Peters is a media historian and theorist who works on the transnational causes and consequences of the information age, especially in the Soviet century. He is the Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa.
Kavita Philip is a historian of science and technology who has written on nineteenth-century environmental politics in British India, information technology in postcolonial India, and the political-economic intersections of art, fiction, historiography, and technoscientific activism. She holds the President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures at The University of British Columbia, and is Professor of History and (by courtesy) Informatics at The University of California, Irvine.
Sarah T. Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is known for her work on social media labor, policy, and culture, with expertise in commercial content moderation, a phenomenon she has been studying for a decade. She is cofounder, with Safiya Noble, of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, or C2I2.
Sreela Sarkar is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University. Based on sustained ethnographic research, her publications focus on smart cities, new forms of capitalism, labor, and identities of class, caste, and gender in India’s acclaimed information economy.
Corinna Schlombs is a historian of computing technology and culture with interests in gender and labor questions who works on productivity, automation, and capitalism in transatlantic relations. She is Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Andrea Stanton is a cultural historian who works on the intersections of technology, postcolonial national identity, and piety in the Middle East. She is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Denver.
Mitali Thakor is an anthropologist of technology with interests in feminist and critical race studies of surveillance, policing, artificial intelligence, and robotics. She is an Assistant Professor of Science in Society at Wesleyan University.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a computational media researcher who works on approaches and technologies for understanding and making games, interactive narratives, and electronic literature. With Michael Mateas he co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz.