Bio
Julian Quiros (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information, where his research investigates how racialization and difference are produced and proliferate within data infrastructures and platforms. His current book project is a historical case study (1877 – 1914) examining the development of data producing and reporting practices for the first public child welfare organization in Philadelphia. A transdisciplinary scholar, Julian’s research engages thinkers and concepts in Anti-Colonial and Black Radical Feminist Thought, Feminist Science Studies, Caribbean Philosophy, and Black Studies. He has published in venues such as Qualitative Inquiry, Just Tech, Reading Research Quarterly, among others, and has a chapter on large language models in Learning Under Algorithmic Conditions (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2026).Previously, Julian was a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He received his Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.A. in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh.