Talks & Papers (most recent)
Invited Talks and Lectures
2026. “Borders: As We Imagine, as We Make.” Invited speaker for “The US-Mexico Border and Race: Past and Present” symposium, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University, New Haven, May 2.
2026. “Thinking About the Michigan Model: American and Ethnic Studies in Practice.” Invited speaker for the 90th Anniversary of American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2-3.
2025. “The Cybernetic Border and the Politics of Care.” Invited talk for the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, December 3.
2025. “Smart Borders and Dissent.” Invited talk for the Institute for Technoscience and Society, York University, Toronto, September 9.
2025. “The Cybernetic Border.” Invited speaker for the Programa de Investigación de Estudios Latinoamericanos Críticos sobre Migración y Fronteras, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), July 3.
2025. “The Cybernetic Border.” Invited talk for the Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster on Digital Border Technologies and Media, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, April 28.
Papers Presented
2026. “Reprogramming Gender and the Maquila: The Case of the Transitron and Video Craft Strikes, 1970s.” Latina/o Studies Association Conference, Austin, Texas, March 26-29.
2025. “Uncivil Technoscience: Anti-Immigration and Algorithmic Systems in Boundary Making.” American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 20-22.
2025. “Texas, Techno-Nationalism, and the Frontier of Chip Sovereignty.” (Co-written with Claire Fitch**, Odalis Garcia Gorra**, Isa Haid*, Crys Zhao**) Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Seattle, September 3-6.
2023. “Assembling Bodies, Governing Boundaries: Notes towards a Theory of the Maquiladora Interface.” Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, November 8-11.
2023. “Invisible Circuits: Race and Gender in the Maquila Interface.” American Studies Association Conference, Montreal, November 2-5.
2022. “Making Work Human: People Analytics, Affect, and the Future of Work.” (Co-written with Odalis Garcia Gorra** and Victoria Sánchez*) Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Cholula, December 7-10.