Visiting Research Investigator and Adjunct Lecturer
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About
Chad Van de Wiele (he/they) is a critical media and black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, educator, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan. His research interests are broadly centered on the relationship between innovation, knowledge/power, and carcerality. Through an interdisciplinary, critical race/STS lens, Chad interrogates the socio-racial, political-/economic, and technological dynamics of police surveillance and digital carceral infrastructure—particularly as they are (re)imagined, co-produced, and resisted in the context of post-industrial urban redevelopment.
Chad completed his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2022 with a concentration in Black Studies. He was a fellow of the National Science Foundation IGERT program on Electronic Security and Privacy at UIC (2018–2019). His work has been published in Social Media + Society, the International Journal of Communication, and the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and presented at various academic conferences. Since 2019, Chad has served as Assistant Editor of New Media & Society.
