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Whit Pow is an Assistant Professor at NYU Steinhardt specializing in media history with a focus on transgender media studies, trans color critique, queer theory, electronic art, and video game history. Their current book project explores how trans programmers and game designers have historically contested the limitations of computational systems, thus critiquing institutional restrictions. Pow emphasizes the mediation of trans lives and bodies through state archives and bureaucratic documents, such as birth certificates and immigration forms. They examine how racialized biopolitical processes of documentation and surveillance impact the existence of trans BIPOC individuals, often rendering them invisible within the normalized logic of technologies like software, video games, and artificial intelligence. Their work is grounded in transgender studies and seeks to further understand the intersection of software studies and critical science and technology studies, placing trans lives at the forefront of discussions about institutional documentation and everyday interactions with technology.
Open Program in Biomedical Sciences (Vilcek Institute) covers departments like Biochemistry, Pathology, Neuroscience, Microbiology, etc.