About
Megh Marathe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media & Information and Center for Bioethics & Social Justice at Michigan State University. Their research seeks to foster dialogue between lived experience and expert practice in medicine and governance. They specialize in questions of classification, inequality, expertise, and valuation. Their research seeks to include people marginalized along axes of disability, gender, race, and class.
Current Work
Megh Marathe’s research seeks to foster inclusion in expert practices and technologies by centering the perspectives of marginalized people. They do this by studying the experiences and practices of multiple stakeholders – doctors and patients, citizens and civic officials – that is, laypeople and professionals, people who are marginalized as well as those in powerful positions, to generate critical theory and practical interventions for inclusive practice and technology design. Marathe adopts an ethnographic approach that is inflected by their computer science training and software industry experience.
Marathe’s interests are in science and technology studies, information studies, and medical anthropology. They are currently examining the social implications of therapeutic brain implants and the exclusion of gender diverse people in data systems, in addition to developing their research on epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
Research Area Keyword(s)
inclusion, technology, society, classification, temporality