Co-PIs
Juan De Lara is a human geographer who studies race, space, and power. His research focuses on three broad themes. First, he is interested the relationship between regions, capitalism, and race. For example, he has written about how changes in global capitalism during the 1990s created new spaces of ecological and economic vulnerability for Southern California’s Latina/o and immigrant communities. Second, Dr. De Lara studies how data, science, and technological innovations are transforming the social relations that shape racial difference, human migration, and labor. He is particularly focused on private and public investment in digital infrastructures that seek to manage and control racialized workers and migrants. Third, he works on public-facing research that supports community-based efforts to increase social equity. Dr. De Lara’s first book, Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Inland Southern California is now available from UC Press. The book uses global supply chains and logistics to examine how the scientific management of bodies, space, and time produced new racialized labor regimes inside modern warehouses.
Andrew Lakoff is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at USC, where he directs the Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life. His areas of research specialization include global biopolitics, risk society, and the history of the human sciences. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (Cambridge, 2006), Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency (California, 2017), and The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security (Princeton, 2021), with Stephen J. Collier.
Staff
Emily Rose Anderson recently earned her Ph.D. in Art History at USC. She is the associate director of the USC Dornsife Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and is serving as the program administrator of the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Precarious Ecologies. Her research interests include the history of printing, printed books, works on paper, and the intersections of media and technology in early modern Europe. Her dissertation examined experimental printing techniques in early modern Italy. She has published her work about “bespoke” editions of Euclid’s Elements, and has an upcoming chapter about blue paper used in book printing in Venice in Blue (Olschki, forthcoming). In addition to her role as associate director of STPL, Emily serves as a lecturer in the Department of Art History at USC.