OLIVER L.
HAIMSON,
Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

RESEARCH TEAM
Prospective students: If you are a prospective PhD student interested in working with me, please apply to the UMSI PhD program. If you are a current UM masters student or undergraduate student interested in working with me, please email me with your CV/resume and research interests. I am particularly interested in working with students who want to conduct research on trans technologies

   

Postdoc

Kat Brewster
incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow
pronouns: she/they
research interests: TBD

   

PhD Students

Josh Guberman
PhD Candidate, co-advised by Silvia Lindtner
pronouns: he/him
research interests: the intersections of critical disability studies, feminist science and technology studies, and computer-supported cooperative work

Senami Kojah
PhD Student
pronouns: she/her
research interests: content moderation, marginalized populations, social media, disinformation, censorship, digital surveillance, human rights in the Global South

Francesca Lameiro
incoming PhD Student, co-advised by Eric Gilbert
pronouns: he/him
research interests: online communities, social media, transgender studies, social computing

Denny Starks
PhD Student, co-advised by Tawanna Dillahunt
pronouns: they/them
research interests: LGBTQIA+ safety, BIPOC safety, online communities, social computing, identities, underserved communities, transgender studies

Hibby Thach
incoming PhD student, co-advised by Michaelanne Thomas
pronouns: they/she
research interests: digital cultures/media, online identity, LGBTQIA+, mixed-race, HCI

Ben Zefeng Zhang
PhD Candidate, co-advised by Michaelanne Thomas
pronouns: he/him
research interests: social media, platform labor & work, mobility & migration, life transitions, identity & marginality

   

Project Manager

Samuel Mayworm
Researcher and Project Manager
pronouns: he/him
research interests: preservation, archival practices, digital preservation, internet/social media preservation, library policy, LGBTQ+ inclusion and equity in library and information spaces

   

Visiting Researchers

F. Ria Khan
Researcher; PhD student at UC Irvine Dept. of Informatics
pronouns: they/them
research interests: HCI, disruptive play, embodied interaction, critical design, and design justice all to leverage for socio-technical inquiry and participation of PoC and LGBTQIA2+ communities

Malaya MaƱacop
Researcher
pronouns: she/her
research interests: trans health, trans technologies, HCI, digital therapeutics, digital safety, LGBTQIA+ health policy, HIV/AIDS intervention, trauma-informed care, healing justice

Mel Monier
Researcher; PhD student at UM Dept. of Communication & Media
pronouns: she/they
research interests: digital media; intersectional trans and queer feminisms; gender, race, sexuality, and the body

   

Masters Student

Aloe DeGuia
Masters Student, Health Informatics
pronouns: she/her
research interests: LGBTQIA+ health, transgender health technologies, gender and decolonization, organizing and advocacy

       

Alumni


Dan Delmonaco
Education and
Research Librarian,
Rutgers University

Avery Everhart
Assistant Professor,
University of
British Columbia
   

Taika
Augustaitis

Justin Buss

AJ Carter

Shanley
Corvite

O (Ollie)
Downs

Dykee Gorrell

Jasmine
Glover

Oliver Higgins

Shruti Jain

Hayden Le

Shannon Li

Kimberly
Liang

Alexxus Lige

Tianxiao
(Sharol) Liu

Kai Nham

Peipei Nie

Christian
Paneda

Virginia
Pollock

Anushka
Raheja

Caoyang
Shen

Shakira Smith

Lingbo Wang

Andrea
Wegner

Zu Weinger

Brookelyn
Wheeler