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Kim Fernandes

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Kim Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Brown University. They hold a joint PhD (with distinction) in Anthropology and Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Kim’s ethnographic and historical research addresses questions of how the body is shaped through interactions with data and technology, focusing particularly on the enumeration and identification of disability. Their work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Taraknath Das Foundation. Kim is the Managing Editor of Platypus, an interdisciplinary science studies blog. They are also an affiliate at Data & Society and the University of Michigan’s DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism) Network.