Liliana Gil

Pronouns: she/her

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Year of Graduation:
2022

Liliana Gil is Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University. She received a PhD in Anthropology from The New School and held a Lectureship at the National University of Singapore. An anthropologist by training, Liliana uses ethnography and critical STS approaches to study technology, inequality, skill, and creativity. She is currently working on her book project, based on her dissertation “Beyond Make-Do Innovation: Practices and Politics of Technological Improvisation in Brazil.” Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, National Science Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies. You can read some of her work in American Anthropologist and Third World Quarterly.