Anubha Singh

I am an ethnographer of computing and an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS), information science, and global media studies. My qualitative, interpretive research in India draws transnational attention to the ways artificial intelligence and machine learning are creating new forms of technological governance as they turn to emerging sites such as smallholder agriculture. My book project draws from my long-term, multilingual, multi-sited ethnography of the onion supply chain in India. It traces the everyday practices of data-driven AgTech and shows how these technologies are reshaping farming and redefining the future of smallholder agriculture.

At Vassar, I draw on decades of scholarship in science and technology studies (STS) and human-computer interaction (HCI) to design courses that critically examine the social and political dimensions of our information society. These courses equip students to interrogate the technological promises of distant, desirable futures.

I earned my PhD in Information and STS from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to that, I was a Commonwealth Scholar at SOAS University of London where I completed an MA in Global Media and Digital Cultures.