Julian Posada

Julian Posada joins Yale as an Assistant Professor the Department of American Studies on July 1, 2023. He is appointed as a postdoctoral associate for the 2022-23 academic year. His work integrates theories and methods from sociology, information studies, and human-computer interaction. Posada’s current project explores the relationship between human labor and artificial intelligence. It centers on the experiences of outsourced workers in Latin America employed by digital platforms to produce data for machine learning and to verify algorithmic outputs. He received a Ph.D. in Information from the University of Toronto and holds a maîtrise in the Humanities from Sorbonne University and a master’s degree in Sociology from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).