*New* CSDE Affiliate Dafeng Xu to present at CSSS Weekly Seminar (10/23/24)
CSDE Affiliate Dafeng Xu (Evans School) will present at this week’s edition of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series. On Wednesday, October 23 at 12:30pm, Xu will give a seminar titled: Ideological Segregation in a Politically Diverse Community: Evidence from China.
This seminar will be offered as a hybrid session, in-person in Savery Hall (409) or online (link here).
Author Meets Critics – Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times – Dr. Erin McElroy
When: Friday, Oct 18, 2024 (12:30-1:30PM)
Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)
We are looking forward to hosting Erin McElroy (Geography, UW) on Friday, Oct. 18th in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.
In this presentation, Erin McElroy will discuss Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times, just published with Duke University Press. The book maps out processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and also looks at how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach. The book also explores how in Romania, dreams of privatization have updated fascist pasts, often in the name of anticommunism. At the same time, McElroy accounts for the ways that activists resist Silicon Valley capitalist logics, building upon socialist-era worldviews not to restore state socialism but rather to establish more just social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an ultimately unsustainable model of rapacious economic and geographic growth.Dr. McElroy will be joined by Nassim Parvin (Information School, UW) and Jenna Grant (Anthropology, UW).
Author:
Erin McElroy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, where their work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, empire, and racial capitalism, alongside housing justice organizing and transnational solidarities. McElroy is author of Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke University Press, 2024), and co-editor of Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press, 2021). Additionally, McElroy is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project—a data visualization, counter-cartography, and digital media collective that produces tools, maps, reports, murals, zines, oral histories, and more to further the work of housing justice. At UW, McElroy runs Landlord Tech Watch which produces collaborative research and collective knowledge regarding the dispossessive technologies of landlordism. Such commitments inform their work coediting the Radical Housing Journal—an open access publication that foregrounds housing justice research transnationally.
Critics:
Nassim Parvin is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington (UW) Information School where she also serves as the Associate Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty (IDEAS). Dr. Parvin’s interdisciplinary research integrates theoretically-driven humanistic scholarship and design-based inquiry to explore the ethical and political dimensions of design and technology, especially as related to questions of democracy and justice. Rooted in pragmatist ethics and feminist theory, she critically engages emerging digital technologies—such as smart forests or artificial intelligence—in their wide-ranging and transformative effect on the future of collective and social interactions. From 2018-2023, Dr. Parvin served as the co-lead editors of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, an award-winning journal in the expanding interdisciplinary field of STS.
Jenna Grant is a cultural anthropologist working in the fields of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, multimodal anthropology, and Southeast Asia Studies. Her research centers on Cambodia, an important place for thinking through postcolonial and Cold War histories in contemporary medical, technological, and visual practices. She theorizes these practices as care and repair, which relate to both health care specifically but also a more general understanding of care for the self and collective that involves ongoing repair of infrastructures, relationships, and beings. She has developed her research questions, methods, and commitments in three different directions: medical imaging and visual practices of health care in Phnom Penh; Cambodia as a site of experimental global health sciences; and experiments in collective care in Cambodia and the U.S. Her book, Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh (2022), was published by UW Press.
Call for Papers: Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas – Canadian Studies in Population (10/15/24)
Special issue of Canadian Studies in Population on “Demographic Change and Challenges in the Americas”
- Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024
This special issue of Canadian Studies in Population will spotlight key demographic concerns facing the Americas, including migration, mortality and morbidity, fertility, and family dynamics, and provide a forward-looking introduction that sets an agenda for a more integrated approach to understanding demographic change in the region. We seek papers that address demographic processes in the Americas, broadly defined, from Canada to Patagonia. Our issue is motivated by the following core questions about demography in the Americas:
- What are the most important emerging demographic trends and processes in the Americas?
- How do demographic processes in the Americas challenge or bring nuance to understanding of processes found elsewhere?
- Are there regional demographic systems in the Americas? Are national demographic trends emblematic of regional trends? How heterogeneous is the demography of countries and regions?
- Are similar demographic dynamics/mechanisms evident across places (i.e., changing mortality risks or fertility decline)?
- How do national policies relate to unique demographic outcomes?
Papers may focus on a specific country or identify links and demographic systems between countries or regions. We invite papers that present novel empirical evidence, methodological insights or theoretical contributions. Empirical papers may include descriptive findings or center on identifying mechanisms. Authors are encouraged to situate their findings in regional context if they are not explicitly comparative in nature.
Please read the full Call for Papers online or in the attached document.
*New* Intro to R III: Data Visualization (10/15/24)
*New* Intro to R III: Data Visualization (10/15/24)
Join CSDE Statistical Demographer & Training Director Jessica Godwin for 75 minute introduction data visualization in R. This workshop, the final in a series of 3, will cover all major types of plots in both base R and the tidyverse.
The workshop will be hybrid with in-person attendance in Savery 121 and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration. Learn more and register here.
Assistant Professor – School of Public Health (10/14/24)
CSDE Welcomes 3 New Research Affiliates
CSDE is pleased to introduce three new CSDE Affiliates! Leah Marcotte (Assistant Professor, Medicine) focuses on using community-engaged and implementation research methods in collaboration with community partners and health system leaders to sustainably improve equity and quality in cancer screening. Sana Khalil (Assistant Professor, Economics) integrates experimental and quasi-experimental techniques with qualitative surveys to explore issues in labor economics, behavioral economics, environmental resource management, and gender and development. Magali Blanco’s (Research Scientist, DEOHS) current research interests are around air pollution exposure assessment, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and social disparities. Learn more about each affiliate in the full story!
- Leah Marcotte – Leah Marcotte is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW), a health services researcher, and a primary care physician. Her research is focused on using community-engaged and implementation research methods in collaboration with community partners and health system leaders to sustainably improve equity and quality in cancer screening. Prior to pursuing a career as a physician scientist, Dr. Marcotte worked in public policy and in health systems administration, most recently serving as Associate Medical Director for Population Health for the UW health system (2018-2020). In that role, she was exposed to a learning health system model with a focus in health equity in which we partnered with researchers to design and evaluate novel interventions for population health outreach. The experience of leveraging research methods to inform health systems interventions with the goal of improving quality and equity in care motivated me toward a career as a physician scientist. She pursued and was awarded a K12 learning health systems research grant to transition to a career in research. Having not had formal research methods training, she completed a Master of Science degree in Health Services at UW School of Public Health in 2022. She is currently working on a K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award proposal focused on addressing breast cancer screening inequities to submit to the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
- Sana Khalil -Sana Khalil is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Washington Tacoma. Dr. Khalil obtained her doctoral degree in economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September 2022, where she was a US Fulbright doctoral fellow and received the 2018 Solomon Barkin Award for best research on improving the conditions of the working class. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics and econometrics, centered on exploring social and economic inequalities. In her research, she integrates experimental and quasi-experimental techniques with qualitative surveys to explore issues in labor economics, behavioral economics, environmental resource management, and gender and development. Her current research spans three interconnected strands: (1) Household water insecurities in Pakistan; (2) Cousin marriage, intrahousehold dynamics, and their impact on women’s paid work, and (3) labor market inequalities and employers’ hiring practices.
- Magali Blanco – Magali Blanco is an environmental exposure scientist with additional training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and data science. Her current research interests are around air pollution exposure assessment, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), and social disparities. The focus of her recently funded diversity MOSAIC K99/R00 is to better understand the mechanisms by which air pollution may impact Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD) neuropathologies. This research will leverage her training and interests in air pollution monitoring design, quantitative exposure assessment, environmental health, ADRD, exposure mixtures, and advanced epidemiology.
Assistant Professor of Population Health and Aging
Magarati and Colleagues Receive NIH/NIDA Grant from the Native Collective Research Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Initiative
CSDE Affiliate Maya Magarati, along with Myra Parker and the UW Seven Directions Center for Indigenous Public Health team, were recently awarded a $3 million grant through the NIH N CREW Initiative for Growing a Tribal Healing Effort through Research (GATHER). With this new grant, the UW Seven Directions team will serve as one of four core technical assistance and training hubs supporting the documentation and monitoring of tribal research grants focused on substance use, mental health, and pain management. Learn more about this project and other funded initiatives here.