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Mary Shi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, specializing in political historical sociology. Her research delves into the intersections of social theory, science, knowledge, and technology studies, with a focus on land and its significance in American state formation. Shi is currently developing a book manuscript tentatively titled 'Settlers' Republic: Land, Infrastructure, Emergence of New Technologies of Government, 1789-1862', which aims to illuminate the settler origins of the American administrative and developmental state. Her work has garnered support from the National Science Foundation and several other organizations. Shi's writings have been published in notable venues such as Politics & Society, ACME: International Journal of Critical Geographies, and Environment & Planning D: Society & Space, and she has collaboratively produced a book project titled 'Counterpoints: San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement Resistance' (2021).
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science