IVÁN CHAAR LÓPEZ
News!
February & April 2025 - There are new book reviews of The Cybernetic Border in Technology & Culture, Surveillance & Society, H-Net, and MediaWell from the Social Science Research Council. Grateful for the reviewers!
May 2024 - The Feminist Cyberlaw (open access) volume is out with amazing entries tackling how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and its intersections affect and are affected by cyberspace and the laws governing it. Victoria Sánchez and I have a piece on "Artificial Intelligence, Microwork, and the Racial Politics of Care" you can read here.
March 2024 - The Cybernetic Border is out now! Read the introduction (for free) and/or order the book!
October 2023 - Just submitted proofs for my upcoming book The Cybernetic Border and got the gorgeous cover from Duke University Press.
July 2023 - Multi-sited archival deep dives begin for my project on the history of computing manufacturing along the US-Mexico borderlands with research in the Bay Area, Dallas, and Mexico City.
February 2023 - As part of the podcast El Café Latinx, Dr. Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University) interviewed me about my journey to become a professor, my thoughts on mentoring, and my wish for the field of digital studies (and STS). Listen to it on Spotify or your favorite platform!
Upcoming/Past
Talks & Events
April 28, 2025 - Continuing the book tour at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Seattle.
April 18, 2025 - Virtual book talk at Ithaca College hosted by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.
April 9, 2025 - Book round table hosted by Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the Humanities Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Hosted by Edgar Gómez-Cruz (iSchool) with responses by Amelia Acker (iSchool) and C.J. Alvarez (Mexican-American and Latina/o Studies). More details here.
March 28-29, 2025 - I'll present new work on artificial intelligence, HCI, and technopolitics as part of the "Mindings" conference at the University of Texas at Austin.
March 10, 2025 - Thrilled to present my book, The Cybernetic Border, at Colgate University as part of their Peace and Conflict Studies "Digital War" Series. More details here.
November 14-17, 2024 - I'll be in a round table at ASA 2024 in Baltimore. Chaired by Madiha Tahir, the round table tackles the long history of security and enmity in the making of the U.S. empire-nation. Kate Chandler, Manu Karuka, Gilberto Rosas, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer will offer responses to Stefan Aune's Indian Wars Everywhere and my book, The Cybernetic Border.
November 14, 2024 - Happy to celebrate the publication of my book in a double feature with my dear friend Erin McElroy at Red Emma's in Baltimore during the annual meeting of the American Studies Association. Details here.
Research
| U.S.-Mexico borderlands |
| History of technology & imperial formations |
| Human-Computer Interaction |
| Digital labor |
| Science & Technology Studies | Latina/o/x Studies | American Studies |
Performance by Ricardo Dominguez, Ian Alan Paul, Kate Chandler
