Just Tech: Accessible, Sustainable Futures
The Aydelotte Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025-26 class of Faculty and Staff Fellows:
- Maggie Delano, Chair and Associate Professor of Engineering
- Amanda Licastro, Head of Digital Scholarship Strategies and Visiting Associate Professor in English
- Roseann Liu, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Asian American Studies
- Elise A. Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History
- Bob Rehak, Chair and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
- Sukrit Venkatagiri, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Fellows will join Aydelotte staff Patricia White and Andy Hines, as well as Professor Tim Burke, Senior Fellow and Aydelotte Advisory Board member Shannon Mattern, and Aydelotte Foundation Technology and Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow Linda Huber in exploring key questions of tech justice in the higher ed contexts.
The Faculty and Staff Seminar is intended to provide a space where ideas, questions, and analysis about the topic can be explored, tested, challenged, and refined. The seminar will meet regularly during the 2025-26 academic year, providing an opportunity for rich interdisciplinary engagement.
Maggie Delano
Maggie Delano is an Associate Professor and Chair of Engineering at Swarthmore College. Their research focuses on the development of inclusive medical technologies, with an emphasis on wearables and machine learning. Their current research projects focus on racial bias in pulse oximetry measurements and sex/gender variables in medical machine learning. They are also involved in standards development for preventing unwanted location tracking by crowdsourced tracking tags. Prof. Delano received their PhD in electrical engineering and computer science with a minor in women’s and gender studies from MIT in 2018. Further information about Prof. Delano’s work can be found on their website: https://www.maggiedelano.com/.
Amanda Licastro
Amanda Licastro (she/her) is the Head of Digital Scholarship and Visiting Associate Professor in English at Swarthmore College, as well as the pedagogical director of the Book Traces project, an Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow in Critical Bibliography. Amanda serves on the editorial collective of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and serves on several committees for the Modern Language Association. Her research explores the intersection of technology and writing, including book history, dystopian literature, and digital humanities. You can find Amanda’s work in her co-edited collection, Composition and Big Data, as well as in Hybrid Pedagogy, Kairos, and Digital Reading and Writing in Composition Studies.
Roseann Liu
Roseann Liu is an assistant professor of educational studies and Asian American studies at Swarthmore College. She is a scholar of race, education inequality, and social justice. Liu is the author of “Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve.” Her next project examines toxic school facilities.
Dr. Elise A. Mitchell
Dr. Elise A. Mitchell is a historian of Atlantic slavery and the slave trade. She has published several articles about the early modern history of Black life, race, gender, medicine, public health, and the slave trade to the Caribbean, North America, and South America. Her book project, Morbid Geographies, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is currently working on several collaborative and individual digital humanities project about the intertwined histories of race, gender, medicine, public health, and slavery and the data and representational ethics associated with work in this vein.
Bob Rehak
Bob Rehak is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College, where his teaching and research focus on animation, fandom, special effects, video games, and transmedia worldbuilding. His scholarship has appeared in Cinema Journal, Film Criticism, the Journal of Fandom Studies, Science Fiction Film and Television, and Information, Communication and Society, as well as in the edited collections The Video Game Theory Reader, Videogame/Player/Text, and The Cybercultures Reader. His book More Than Meets the Eye: Special Effects and the Fantastic Transmedia Franchise was published by New York University Press in 2018.
Sukrit Venkatagiri
Sukrit Venkatagiri is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. At Swarthmore College, he directs the Collective Resilience Lab which aims to help people resist technologically-mediated harm, ranging from strategic misinformation and hate speech to privacy violations; build sociotechnical systems to repair trust in each other and our institutions; and empower people to advocate for their rights while refusing harmful data and labor practices.
Past Faculty and Staff Seminars
