Jennifer Cearns
Jennifer Cearns is Lecturer in AI at the Department of Social Anthropology and Centre for Digital Trust and Security at the University of Manchester. Her research currently focuses on human-AI relations, affective computing and empathic AI, and how digital technologies affect personhood and identity. She has conducted ethnographic research in Brazil, Cuba, the US, Guyana, Panama, Mexico, Spain, and the UK. She is the author/editor of two books, Contraband Cultures (UCL Press, 2024) and Circulating Culture (2023, University of Florida Press), the latter of which was shortlisted for the Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists First Book Prize and the Society for Latin American & Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize by the American Anthropological Association.
