Maria Smith
PhD Student in Sociology and D-Lab Data Science Fellow, University of California-Berkeley
Chapter Member: Bay Area SSN
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About Maria
Smith's teaching and mentoring emphasize the importance of historical contexts, social structures of information, and the disparate uses of data in technology-mediated environments. She has been honored with the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and named Honorable Mention by the Ford Foundation for her research, which deploys computational and qualitative approaches to explore the impact of social control mechanisms within sociotechnical systems on identity formation and social interactions.
Contributions
Proposition 6: Banning Forced Labor in California State Prisons
Key Findings Brief,