Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder (2024)
Website: https://smdarian.github.io/
Dr. Shiva Darian earned her bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and international politics from Pennsylvania State University. She spent time working across the non-profit sector as a refugee resettlement caseworker, as a researcher for an international relations think tank, and as a union organizer for healthcare workers. Her curiosity about how people and their problems were being quantified led her pursuit of her M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Her research areas include the quantification of people, politics of data, digital activism, citizen data science, and algorithmic folk theories. Dr. Darian’s current research investigates how organizations and their clients consider and use data and information, especially in politicized topics. Her research methods include qualitative methods including interviews, diary studies, research through design, and ethnographic fieldwork.
