About
Sarah Fox is the John Derby Evans Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her research examines how AI, automation, and algorithmic management systems are designed, deployed, and governed in everyday work settings, and how these processes redistribute power between institutions, technologies, and workers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and design research, she foregrounds workers’ situated expertise as a critical site of governance, tracing how everyday practices of adaptation, contestation, and repair expose the limits of technological systems and inform mechanisms of accountability and enforcement. Her scholarship has earned multiple best paper and honorable mention awards at ACM CSCW, CHI, and DIS, has been published in journals including the Anthropology of Work Review, New Media & Society, and Feminist Studies. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.
