Pelle G. Tracey
Assistant Professor, Information School
University of Washington
CSDE Research Areas:
- Health of People and Populations
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
Pelle G. Tracey is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. Tracey is an ethnographer and humanistic social scientist whose research explores how automated technologies, AI, and recordkeeping work in practice, particularly in frontline government, care work, or rental housing contexts. His current work focuses on the politics and pragmatics of homeless services coordinated entry systems which use data and administrative records to allocate scarce resources. His work contributes to critical information studies, science and technology studies, and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Tracey earned his BA in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College, and his PhD in Information from the University of Michigan School of Information.