Hi, I’m Palashi!
I’m a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, San Diego. In 2025, I will be joining Simon Fraser University as an Assistant Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology.
I got my PhD in Information Science at Cornell University with a minor in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. I am an engineer turned feminist scholar, researcher, writer, poet, and activist working at the intersection of society and technology.
I think a lot about what is considered normative and what is normalized in worlds of technology, including where it comes from and how it becomes common sense. To this end, I am often pursuing alternative understandings of technology that challenge or resist such norms. I am guided by historical, material and corporeal knowledge of marginalized communities to question as well as re-imagine worlds of technology.
💡 Critical and Interpretive Studies of Technology
👩🏽💻 Human-Computer Interaction
🤳🏽 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
⚖️ Technology, Justice and Equity
You can contact me at pvaghela <at> ucsd <dot> edu
(Picture of a person of South Asian heritage, medium dark brown hair and olive medium brown skin tone standing in a forest with a tote bag and a blue jacket in hand)
Updates
- Oct 2024: I will be presenting my work at the Annual South Asia Conference in Madison
- July 2024: I will be organizing the panel Unsettling the Nation-State at the Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Technology
- June 2024: Our piece on Anti-Caste Lessons for Computing is out now in ACM XRDS
- Feb 2024: I will be joining the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University later this year.
- May 2023: I will be joining the Communications Department at UC San Diego in August 2023 as University of California's President’s Postdoctoral Fellow!
- Jan 2023: Our mini-conference on Critical Caste Studies was accepted to Eastern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting.
- Dec 2022: I was invited to give the keynote at the online course on Digital Everyday by Point of View
- Nov 2022: Our paper “Counting to be Counted” won a Diversity and Inclusion Award at the upcoming CSCW2022 Conference!
- July 2022: I contributed to and reviewed this brilliant syllabus on Critical Caste and Technology Studies