Bio
Stephanie Dimatulac Santos is an interdisciplinary scholar who uses ethnography, computational humanities, and cultural analysis to trace flows of labor and capital between Southeast Asia and the Global North. She is a lecturer in Cultural Studies at Chulalongkorn University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her research encompasses Asian cultural studies, transnational feminisms, and feminist science and technology studies. Her book project, Smart Labor, Smart Worker: Solidarity and Resistance in Digital Southeast Asia, examines how digital workers develop capacities and solidarity in response to modes of labor extraction, with attention to the gendered reproductive labor sustaining smart cities in ASEAN. Her work has received Fulbright and ACLS fellowships.