Expertise

Her work uses technology as a means to understand historical processes and she combines history, science and technology studies, and Latin American studies in her writings. 

More broadly her research studies the history of science and technology in Latin America and the ways that political projects shape, and are shaped by, technologies such as computers.

Medina's current research studies how nations use science and technology to address histories of dictatorship and state violence and how science and technology intertwine with processes of truth, justice, and repair.

More broadly her research studies the history of science and technology in Latin America and the ways that political projects shape, and are shaped by, new technological capabilities and forms of knowledge production that are deemed scientific.


Subject Area: Informatics and Computing

Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Social Informatics

Latino Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Program in Science, Technology, and Society, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Past Affiliations

Affiliate Associate Professor, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Latin American History Program, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Associate Professor, Latin American History Program, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Philosophy, Chicano/a Studies, History
Degrees
MSL, Yale University, 2014
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, History and Social Study of Science and Technology, 2005
BSE, Princeton University, Electrical Engineering, 1997
Keywords
history of science and technology latin american history civil or human rights human-computer interaction informatics & big data science and society technology transfer