2024 Student Paper Competition Finalists
Prizes will be awarded during lunch on Saturday, September 21.
“The Case for (Meta)data Privacy: Applying Carpenter to Browser Fingerprints”
Rohan Grover, University of Southern California
Rohan Grover is a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. His research explores the politics of technology policy. Specifically, his dissertation project examines the sociotechnical construction of “user consent” in the emerging privacy tech industry, which develops standards for data privacy and, increasingly, AI governance. His ethnographic research draws on science and technology studies, critical data studies, critical policy studies, and feminist and queer analysis of consent to unpack the politics of data governance and privacy law in action.
Rohan’s research has been published in New Media & Society; Political Communication; Telecommunications Policy; The Information Society; the Journal of Information Policy; and at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). His dissertation research is supported by the Law and Science Dissertation Grant, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. Prior to pursuing a PhD, Rohan worked as a product manager and data strategist at digital media and advocacy organizations such as HuffPost, MoveOn, Planned Parenthood, Upworthy, and Jhatkaa.org. He received an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jean-Baptiste Guiffard
“From Connection to Coordination: High-Speed Internet and Protests in Africa”
Jean-Baptiste Guiffard, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Jean-Baptiste Guiffard is an economist specializing in the nexus of digital and development economics. His research predominantly centers on evaluating the impact of broadband Internet and telecommunications infrastructure deployment. Currently completing his Ph.D. at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, he will soon begin a postdoctoral fellowship at Télécom Paris, part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
Kaelyn Sanders
“Everything is technology”: examining technology access and use among returning citizens”
Kaelyn Sanders, Michigan State University
Kaelyn Sanders is a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Using critical and intersectional frameworks, Kaelyn’s research sits at the nexus of community supervision, reintegration, and inequality, and her dissertation research will qualitatively explore digital inequality among Black men and women on parole in Michigan. Kaelyn’s past research has been published in theJournal of Criminal Justice, Feminist Criminology, and the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy
As a Ph.D. Candidate, Kaelyn has worked on program evaluation projects for community-based reentry and gun violence programs in the state of Michigan and serves as the graduate assistant for her program’s Prospective Doctoral Student Recruitment and Retention Program Grant. In this role, she works to increase DEI in her graduate program by meeting with students at minority-serving institutions and assessing areas where current graduate students can be better supported. She previously held a summer graduate research associate position at Arnold Ventures working on their pretrial justice team and interned at a local probation and reentry program in Lansing, Michigan.
Kaelyn is also a 2024 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and an alumni of The Ohio State University, where she received her B.A. in Sociology and Criminology.