Steven Gonzalez Monserrate

Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a PhD Candidate in the History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society (HASTS) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2015, he has conducted ethnographic research in data centers, surveying the diverse ecological impacts of digital data storage in New England, Arizona, Puerto Rico, and Iceland. His writing appears in Aeon, README, Popular Science, MIT Press Reader, and Anthropology & Humanism. Steven holds an MA in Anthropology from Brandeis University and a BA in Feminist Anthropology from Keene State College. He is also a speculative fiction writer and filmmaker.