معرفی
Rachel Daniell, PhD, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Information, Pratt Institute, where she contributes to interdisciplinary research and teaching at the intersection of information, human rights, and social justice.
Education:
- PhD, Anthropology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
- MS, Data Analytics & Visualization, with Advanced Certificate in Spatial Analysis & Design, Pratt Institute School of Information
- Certificate, Media & Social Change, The New School
- BA, Comparative Literature, NYU
Rachel's research critically investigates the structures of information and their sociopolitical implications, focusing on temporality, spatiality, documentation, and metadata. Their work bridges anthropology, data science, and the arts, particularly exploring how data systems represent human rights issues and marginalized histories. They are deeply engaged in ethical data practices, especially in contexts involving migration and memory.
Rachel is actively involved in collaborative research to improve the documentation of migrant deaths at the US-Mexico border, working with academic, humanitarian, and medico-legal partners. They also co-organize Data Through Design (DxD), an initiative that curates annual exhibitions of art based on civic open data in New York City, highlighting the creative and critical potential of public data.
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Rachel brings a strong commitment to mentoring students in both technical and critical aspects of information studies. They have taught courses on information and human rights, GIS & design, interactive web mapping, web and database technologies, and data cleaning. Their pedagogy emphasizes storytelling, critical thinking, and the artful integration of data into meaningful projects. Though no formal grants are listed, their collaborative research and curatorial work suggest active engagement in funded or institutionally supported initiatives.
Labs and Teams: Rachel is a member of the Data Through Design (DxD: datathroughdesign.com) curator-organizer team and participates in a multi-state working group focused on documenting migrant fatalities at the US-Mexico border.
