Bryce Peake

Bryce Peake is an Assistant Professor of Media & Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a contributor to Platypus, The CASTAC Blog, where he engages with critical issues at the intersection of media, technology, and political discourse.

His research centers on how political actors' somatic experiences are shaped by gendered and racialized histories of media technosciences, with core interests in decolonization, design anthropology, gender, intersectionality, listening practices, and media anthropology. Peake is currently finalizing a monograph on masculinity and colonial media sciences in the British Mediterranean while conducting comparative ethnographic fieldwork across the US, UK, Malta, and Gibraltar to examine white nationalist infopolitics during the Trump and Brexit eras.

Peake developed Tinn, a health data tracking application for tinnitus sufferers, as an experimental platform for decolonizing design anthropology through collaboration with marginalized communities of color in Portland, OR—including Native American, Latin@, migrant, and African American populations—to confront systemic inequalities in technology development while navigating complex ethical tensions around data sovereignty and material support.