Sareeta Amrute
Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management
Email
sareeta@newschool.edu
Office Location
L - 2 West 13th Street
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I am an anthropologist who investigates data-centric technologies and societies. I use ethnographic methods to explore how algorithmic technologies and AI systems change and are changed by social relations, especially in global South Asia. My body of research focuses on kinds of labor and capitalism inaugurated by these technologies and the ways that they may reproduce and reinforce as well as upend long-standing colonial relations. More recent work explores practices of trust, safety, and security online as a reaction to surveillant media regimes. My scholarship centers race and caste as analytics of power within technological domains.
Degrees Held
PhD Anthropology, University of Chicago
BA Art History, Columbia University
Recent Publications
Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin
Want to Know About the Future of AI Equity? Watch What's Happening in California. Tech Policy Press.
with Luis Felipe Murillo, Computing in/from the South. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.
Research Interests
race, caste, data, AI, South Asia, majority world
Awards And Honors
2017 Diana Forsythe Prize awarded by the General Anthropology Division, the Society for the Anthropology of Work, and the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing for Encoding Race, Encoding Class.
2019 International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize for Encoding Race, Encoding Class.