AfterLab Researchers

Marika Cifor is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School and adjunct faculty in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Her book, Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS is forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press. Her work has appeared in First Monday, Convergence, Archival Science, American Quarterly, The Public Historian, and Transgender Studies Quarterly.

Megan Finn currently is a 2021-22 Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellow in Communication at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Washington Information School. Her book Documenting Aftermath: Information Infrastructures in the Wake of Disasters was published by MIT Press. Her work has appeared in New Media and Society, Internet Histories, The Information Society, and Information and Culture: A Journal of History.

Anna Lauren Hoffmann is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School. She is also a senior fellow with the Center for Applied Transgender Studies and affiliate faculty with the UW iSchool’s DataLab. Her writing on data, technology, and ethics has appeared in New Media & Society, The Library Quarterly, Information, Communication, & Society, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Tonia Sutherland is Assistant Professor in the Library and Information Studies Program at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her book, Digital Remains: Race and the Digital Afterlife, is currently under contract with the University of California Press. Her work on archives, data, and digital cultures appears in Cultural Analytics, The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, and Radical History Review.