Faculty Profiles
Anita Say Chan
217-333-1549
228 Gregory Hall
achan@illinois.edu
Education
Ph.D., Program in the History and Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
S.M., Program in Comparative Media Studies, MIT
B.A., Journalism and Women's Studies, New York University
Affiliations
Assistant Research Professor of Communications
Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies
Course Specialties
New Media/Network Cultures
Science and Technology Studies
Globalization and Development
Labor and Creative Economies
Research/Creative Endeavor
Anita Say Chan is an Assistant Research Professor of Communications and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching interests include globalization and digital cultures, innovation networks and the “periphery”, and science and technology studies in Latin America. Her manuscript on the competing imaginaries of global connection and information technologies in network-age Peru, The Promiscuity of Networks: Digital Universalism and Technological Futures at the Periphery, is forthcoming with MIT Press. Her research has been awarded support from the Center for the Study of Law & Culture at Columbia University’s School of Law and the National Science Foundation, and she has held postdoctoral fellowships at The CUNY Graduate Center’s Committee on Globalization & Social Change, and at Stanford University’s Introduction to Humanities Program.