Mariel Garcia-Montes
Part-Time Lecturer
Mariel García-Montes is a sociotechnical researcher of media and information technology. She studies past and present data controversies using archival, ethnographic, and participatory research techniques in order to understand the ways public life and data systems shape one another. Her current work investigates the ways that computer vision has transformed the value of 20th-century analog data in Latin America, and how national databases created in the past influence AI deployments today.
Mariel earned a PhD in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, as well as an MA in Comparative Media Studies, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and at the Data + Feminism Lab at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Education
PhD, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2026)
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