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Cara Wallis is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work spans the fields of mobile studies, China studies, intersectional transnational feminism, critical studies of technology, and global media. Her overarching research questions concern the uses and understandings of technology, informed by multiple axes of identity, that reproduce inequitable power relations and open spaces for individual and collective agency, thus promoting social change. Her research focuses on the processes that emerge from groups that are socially and economically marginalized, particularly China's rural internal migrant populations. Wallis is the author of "Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, Aspiration in Contemporary China" (NYU Press 2025) and "Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones" (NYU Press 2013), along with multiple articles and book chapters.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science