Suisui Wang

Suisui Wang is a Lecturer in the Department of Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His interdisciplinary scholarship bridges feminist and queer Science and Technology Studies (STS) with sensory and auditory research, focusing on technology's role in activism, governance, and community care practices.

Education:

• BA in Sociology from East China Normal University
• MA in Gender Studies from Indiana University Bloomington
• PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Indiana University Bloomington

Wang's research centers on "hotline" technologies as sites of crisis intervention and statecraft, examining how activist mobilization and state coordination deploy hotlines for issues including youth alienation, gay isolation, gendered violence, and suicide prevention. His theoretical framework conceptualizes crisis listening as communicative proxies, affective commons, epistemic positionalities, and performative acts within contemporary psychosocial landscapes. His work critically engages with the sensory dimensions of care technologies, particularly sound and auditory practices in datafication contexts.

His 2024 publication analyzes queer STS approaches to global datafication, reflecting broader trends in his scholarship that interrogate how data practices become embedded in social power structures and community resistance movements. This work demonstrates his commitment to decolonizing data epistemologies through feminist and queer lenses.

Awards:

• 2024 Nicholas C. Mullins Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science

As a PhD candidate developing his book manuscript "Just Listening: Hotline Activisms and Technopolitics of Crisis," Wang actively contributes to critical conversations about technology's role in mental health infrastructure and social justice movements, with emerging collaborations in community-based participatory research.