Julian Quiros, Ph.D.

Julian Quiros studies datafication and platformization in the field of social welfare, with a particular interest in understanding how these processes affect representation and, by extension, policy and practice.

Julian Quiros (he/him) is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication. His scholarship interrogates the use of data and platforms in the fields of social welfare and education, and engages various disciplines, including but not limited to Critical Data Studies, Media Studies, Feminist Science Studies, Cultural Studies, and Black Studies. His current projects center the public child welfare field, both in historical and contemporary contexts. He is working on a book project based on his doctoral dissertation, which was entitled Scenes of Measurement: On the Production of Administrative Data in the Philadelphia Child Welfare System from 1877 – 1923, and he is developing a multi-modal, qualitative study aimed at understanding the process of constructing case management systems in child welfare organizations.

Julian was previously a Doctoral Fellow at the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at Teachers College, and his dissertation was awarded the Data Fluencies Dissertation Grant, from the Social Science Research Council’s Data Fluencies Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through Simon Fraser University. He holds a PhD in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice and will be working with Julia Ticona during his Fellowship.