Kinjal Dave’s dissertation project is a multimodal exploration of the Gujarati American community’s role in semiconductor, circuit board, and microelectronics manufacturing. Through this project, she deconstructs technical labor and technical expertise as a gendered, racialized, casted, and classed social phenomenon.

Kinjal Dave is a researcher with experience in academia, the federal government, and alt-academia. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is at the intersection of Asian American studies, feminist science and technology studies, and critical internet history. During her graduate education, she served as an intern for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan research and auditing agency under Congress, where she studied rural infrastructure. Prior to graduate school, she was a research analyst at Data & Society Research Institute.