Professor Julietta Hua
Nominated Fellow, July 2022
Home Institution: San Francisco State University
Julietta Hua is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at San Francisco State University, and author of Trafficking Women’s Human Rights (Minnesota 2011) as well as Spent Behind the Wheel: Drivers’ Labor in the Uber Economy (co-authored with Kasturi Ray; Minnesota 2021). She has a PhD in Ethnic Studies and her teaching and research interests center politics, migration and labor.
Project Title: Race, Colonialism, Technology
Much important work has focused on the ways technologies, particularly contemporary digital and algorithmic technologies, reproduce existing race and gender biases. This IASH collaboration extends these important studies of racial and gender-biased outcomes, to the racial and gendered logics that constitute the concept of technology itself. Our aim is to move away from simply defaulting into positions that advocate for “better” or less racist, sexist uses of technology, instead exploring the raciality of technology, where colonial logic precedes and enables modern technology.