RESEARCH & CV
Curriculum Vitae (updated April 2017)
My research is on the policing of child exploitation, globally.
I am currently writing a book manuscript on the history and current use of forensic techniques to produce the face. I am tracing the emergence of collaborations between law enforcement, multimedia artists, computer scientists, and corporate investigation teams, specifically focusing on collaborations dealing with missing children and child exploitation cases. My interest lies in the honing of forensic craft, from sketch artistry to digital reconstructions and image detection software. My field sites include the US, the Netherlands, the Philippines, and Thailand.
In August 2016 I completed my dissertation from M.I.T., "Algorithmic Detectives Against Child Trafficking: Data, Entrapment, and the New Global Policing Network." This project was based on fieldwork in the US, the Netherlands, and Thailand.
I use ethnography, Feminist/Queer STS, and critical race studies to explore the ways in which activists, computer scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement develop policing technologies for child exploitation cases.
In 2016 I wrote an article for APC on "Problematizing the Dominant Discourse Around Children, Youth, and the Internet," published as part of the GISWatch Issue on Sexual Rights and the Internet. The report was presented at the Internet Governance Forum 2015.
I am an affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In June 2015 I gave a talk at Berkman on feminist technology studies and child exploitation research.
From 2011-2013 I worked with danah boyd at Microsoft Research's Human Trafficking Project, researching how networked technologies influence patterns of online sex trafficking, with a focus on classifieds web sites. Our manuscript, entitled "Networked Trafficking: Reflections on Technology and the Anti-Trafficking Movement" is published as an open-access article in Dialectical Anthropology.
My research is on the policing of child exploitation, globally.
I am currently writing a book manuscript on the history and current use of forensic techniques to produce the face. I am tracing the emergence of collaborations between law enforcement, multimedia artists, computer scientists, and corporate investigation teams, specifically focusing on collaborations dealing with missing children and child exploitation cases. My interest lies in the honing of forensic craft, from sketch artistry to digital reconstructions and image detection software. My field sites include the US, the Netherlands, the Philippines, and Thailand.
In August 2016 I completed my dissertation from M.I.T., "Algorithmic Detectives Against Child Trafficking: Data, Entrapment, and the New Global Policing Network." This project was based on fieldwork in the US, the Netherlands, and Thailand.
I use ethnography, Feminist/Queer STS, and critical race studies to explore the ways in which activists, computer scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement develop policing technologies for child exploitation cases.
In 2016 I wrote an article for APC on "Problematizing the Dominant Discourse Around Children, Youth, and the Internet," published as part of the GISWatch Issue on Sexual Rights and the Internet. The report was presented at the Internet Governance Forum 2015.
I am an affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society. In June 2015 I gave a talk at Berkman on feminist technology studies and child exploitation research.
From 2011-2013 I worked with danah boyd at Microsoft Research's Human Trafficking Project, researching how networked technologies influence patterns of online sex trafficking, with a focus on classifieds web sites. Our manuscript, entitled "Networked Trafficking: Reflections on Technology and the Anti-Trafficking Movement" is published as an open-access article in Dialectical Anthropology.
