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Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Assistant Professor听Colette Perold听researches the relationship between听media technologies, labor and U.S. foreign policy,听specifically the ways in which multinational听IT companies shape U.S. foreign听policy priorities in Latin America. Her current project draws听from the business听history of computing and political economy of media industries to analyze听the听relationship between the U.S.-based IT sector and U.S. foreign policy in Brazil听prior to听modern computing. Her research has been funded by various sources听including the Hagley听Library, the Tinker听Foundation, and the Charles Babbage Institute, where she received the 2019-2020 Tomash Fellowship. Her article "IBM's World Citizens: Valentim Boucas and the Politics of IT Expansion in Authoritarian Brazil" won the 2021 Mahoney Prize for outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology from the Society for the History of Technology's Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society. She most recently received the 2022-2023 Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Society for the History of Technology.
Perold earned her PhD from听the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York听University.听Prior to her PhD she worked as a labor organizer and as an editor for the听NACLA听Report on the Americas, a quarterly journal on Latin American politics and听social听movements.