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  • Sareeta Amrute

    Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management

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    sareeta@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Sareeta Amrute

    Profile

    I am an anthropologist who investigates data-centric technologies and societies. I use ethnographic methods to explore how algorithmic technologies and AI systems change and are changed by social relations, especially in global South Asia. My body of research focuses on kinds of labor and capitalism inaugurated by these technologies and the ways that they may reproduce and reinforce as well as upend long-standing colonial relations. More recent work explores practices of trust, safety, and security online as a reaction to surveillant media regimes. My scholarship centers race and caste as analytics of power within technological domains.

    At The New School, I run the Lab for AI, Ethics, and Creative Labor with my colleague Andrew Shea. We bring together coalitions of creative workers and students to help shape a future for creativity that preserves livelihoods and craft in writing, performance, and the arts.

    Degrees Held

    PhD Anthropology, University of Chicago

    BA Art History, Columbia University

    Recent Publications

    Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin

    Thinking with and Beyond Racial Capitalism. Journal of Management Inquiry.

    Narrative frames and re-framing narratives: from AI as labor futures and
    regulation to AI as precarities and problematics. in Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence.

    Thinking the Unthinkable in AI. Antipode.

    Weapons of the Snake. Current Anthropology.

    Want to Know About the Future of AI Equity? Watch What's Happening in California. Tech Policy Press.

    Bored Techies Being Casually Racist: Race as Algorithm. Science, Technology & Human Values.

    Of Techno-Ethics and Techno-Affects. Feminist Review.

    Immigrant Sensibilities in Tech Worlds: Sensing Hate, Capturing Dissensus. Cultural Anthropology.

    with Luis Felipe Murillo, Computing in/from the South. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience.

    Research Interests

    race, caste, data, AI, South Asia, majority world

    Awards And Honors

    2017 Diana Forsythe Prize awarded by the General Anthropology Division, the Society for the Anthropology of Work, and the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology & Computing for Encoding Race, Encoding Class.

    2019 International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize for Encoding Race, Encoding Class.

    Past Courses

    Anthropologies of AI
    GANT 6281, Spring 2026

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