Uma is a PhD candidate interested in various forms of classification and their consequences for social life. Her dissertation will focus on the proliferation of “digital territory” and its effects on the boundary between “public” and “private” institutions. Who governs (and through what means?) when informational capital and other forms of legitimacy accrue to “private” actors, and how do their preferred taxonomies (re-)shape consumer-citizens’ political cognition?
Contact
uilavarasan@g.harvard.edu
My Website
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
American Politics | Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Bureaucracy | Institutions | Non-Governmental Organizations | Race & Ethnicity | State-Society Relations | Technology & Governance
Research Methods
Experiments | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods | Surveys