Dr. Stephanie Dimatulac Santos

EDUCATION

  • PhD in Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018
  • MA in Liberal Studies, New York University
  • BA in Communication, University of the Philippines, Diliman

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Asian Cultural Studies
  • Transnational Feminisms
  • Critical Development Studies
  • Science and Technology Studies

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Postcolonial Cultures
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Global Beauty Cultures
  • Fictions of the Gig Economy
  • Work, Technology, & Society
  • Asia and the Making of the Modern World

KEY PUBLICATIONS

  • Smart Labor, Smart Worker: Extraction and Solidarity in Digital Southeast Asia (manuscript in progress) 
  • “Circuits of Care: Filipino Content Moderation and American Infostructures of Feeling.” Co-written with Alden Sajor Marte-Wood. Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Fall 2021

SELECTED TALKS/CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  • Enacting Care: Labor, Love, and Living. Panel for the Caring Futures: Contradiction, and Revolutionary Possibilities. May 2024. American University of Paris.
  • Southeast Asia as Method in Science and Technology Studies. Panel sponsored by AAS Southeast Asia Council. Association for Asian Studies Conference. 15 March 2024. Virtual Presentation in Seattle, Washington.
  • Digitalization, Labor, and Displacement: Lessons and Questions from Southeast Asia. Panel for the Association of Asian Studies Virtual Conference. 1 March 2024.  Virtual Presentation in Seattle, Washington.
  • “Gig Economy in Southeast Asia.” Invited talk at the Incubating Feminist AI Project, Chulalongkorn University. 7 December 2023.
  • “Smart Labor and the Fantasy Production of ASEAN Smart Cities.” Invited talk at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Iowa. 9 November 2023.
  • “Redefining US Foreign Policy for the Next Generation.” Invited speaker, Carnegie Council for International Affairs.” 28 September 2023. Denver, Colorado.
  • “ASEAN Smart City Imaginaries,” Association for Cultural Studies Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan. August 2023.
  • “Feminized Remote Labor from Southeast Asia to the Global North,” AAS-in-Asia Conference. 25 June 2023. Daegu, South Korea
  • ”’Development-speak’: A Computational Analysis of Philippine Development Reports, 1948-2020,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference. 15 April 2022. Denver, Colorado
  • “The Gender of Migration, the Migration of Gender.” Gray/Wawro Panel in Gender, Health, and Well-being. Rice University, Houston, Texas. March 4, 2020. 
  • “Our Best Assets: Capitalizing on Filipina Women.” Paper presented at the Frontiers of Accumulation Conference at the University of Copenhagen, 2019.
  • “Terminal Spaces in Manila's Global Cities.” Paper presented at the Global Asias 5 Conference at the Global Asias Institute, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania. April 5-6, 2019.
  • “After Neoliberalism?” The Future of Postneoliberal State and Society in Asia.” Social Science Research Council InterAsian Connections IV. October 2013. Istanbul, Turkey.