College: Trinity
Supervisor: Richard Staley
Advisor: Charu Singh
Thesis topic: Building Credibility: The Story of the Behavioural Dynamics Institute, Strategic Communication Laboratories and Cambridge Analytica in South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya
Research interests: Information disorder; history of science, technology and society (STS); indigenous methodologies; transatlantic histories; the 'living laboratory'; 20th century medicine and technology
Email: mdj35 [at] cam.ac.uk
Prior education
MA in Computing in Education, Columbia University
BA in Portuguese and Environmental Engineering (SPO) w/ certificates in African Studies, African American Studies, Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies, Princeton University
Roles
2022–2024: Convener, Indigenous Methodologies Reading Group
2022–2024: Trustee, Cambridge Student Union
Teaching
2023–24: Part IB History of Science (supervisor)
2023–24: Part II Paper 3 Modern Medicine and Life Sciences (supervisor)
2023–24: Part II Paper 6 Ethics and Politics of Science, Technology and Medicine (supervisor)
2022–24: Part II Paper 2 Science and Empires (supervisor)
Grants and fellowships
Associate, Cambridge Digital Humanities
Gates Cambridge Scholar, Gates Cambridge Trust
Graduate Student Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence
Awardee, African Poetry Digital Portal Digital Humanities Grant (Mellon Foundation)
Awardee, Cambridge Creative Encounters public engagement fund
Awardee, University Diversity Fund