Liliana Gil

My teaching and research center on postcolonial and feminist studies of science and technology with a focus on Brazil and its global South connections. I have a PhD in Anthropology from The New School and an MSc in Medical Anthropology from the University of Coimbra.

Selected publications:

Gil, Liliana. 2023. “Becoming a repair entrepreneur: an ethnography of skills training in Brazil.” Third World Quarterly, [early view]. DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2023.2207006

Gil, Liliana. 2022. “A fablab at the periphery: decentering innovation from São Paulo.” American Anthropologist, 124: 721–733. DOI: 10.1111/aman.13769

Gil Sousa, Liliana and Filipa Queirós. 2016. “Method as responsibility in applied research.” Vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology, 13 (1): 97-113. https://vav.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/vav/article/view/27058

Research and teaching interests:

digital futures, design, innovation, skill, work, creativity, improvisation, inequality, computing, repair, factories, development, citizen science, sci-art, post/decolonial and feminist theories, ethnography, Latin America (Brazil)