Present Professional Position
LSA Collegiate Fellow, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, August 2024-Present
Personal Statement:
I am honored to be nominated to serve as a student representative for SKAT. We are in a moment where it is increasingly clear to the public that political, economic, and social struggles are intimately tied up with competing claims of what is true. As our academic institutions and the legitimacy of the knowledge produced therein is under attack, I am dedicated to maintaining SKAT as a space uniquely well positioned to respond to the current moment. This will require action on multiple fronts, from analyzing the various knowledges and counter-knowledges circulating in the public sphere, to understanding the new imbrications of state power, Silicon Valley capital, and techno-imaginaries being forged today, and more. I see feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches as essential to not only analyzing these developments, but also to building the solidarities necessary to move beyond this moment. It would be a privilege to work towards these ends with my fellow SKATers on section council.
Former Professional Positions Held
PhD Student in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2014-2024
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2024
MA, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
BA, Yale University, 2014
Positions Held in ASA
SKAT Anti-racism Committee, 2025
CHS Mini-Conference Organizer, 2025
Theory Section Best Student Paper Award Committee, 2023
CHS/GTS Section Joint Mentorship Program Organizer, 2020-2022
Publications
Shi, Mary. . “Until Indian title shall be… fairly extinguished:” The Public Lands, Indigenous Erasure, and the Origins of Government Promotion of Infrastructure in the United States.”
Shi, Mary. 2022. “Counterpoints as an Act of Public Sociology.” 63: 64-79.
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. 2021. Oakland, CA: PM Press. (Erin McElroy and Mary Shi acted as co-coordinators for this book project)
Shi, Mary, ed. 2021. “Migrations/Relocations.”. Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, ed. Oakland: PM Press, CA: 285-324.
Graziani, Terra and Mary Shi (equal co-authorship). 2020. “Data for Justice: Tensions and Lessons from the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s Work Between Academia and Activism.” 19(1): 397-412.