Lilly Christine Irani is an Iranian-American academic whose research spans topics in

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communication studies Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in differ ...

feminist studies ''Feminist Studies'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering women's studies that was established in 1972. It is an independent nonprofit publication housed at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. Besides scholarly artic ...

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entrepreneu ...

, and

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. She is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the

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Education and career

Irani graduated in 2004 from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

with both a bachelor's degree in the Science, Technology, and Society program and a master's degree in

, specializing in human-computer interaction. After working in user interface design at

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from 2003 to 2007, she returned to graduate school, completing a Ph.D. in informatics at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...

in 2013. Her dissertation, ''Designing Citizens in Transnational India'', was supervised by

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. She joined the University of California, San Diego faculty as an assistant professor of communications in 2013, and was tenured as an associate professor in 2019. In 2023, she became the inaugural Faculty Director of the UC San Diego Labor Center.

Selected publications

Irani is the author of the book ''Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India'' (Princeton University Press, 2019), which won the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize for Science, Technology, Engineering, or Medicine of the

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as well as the 2020 Outstanding Book Award of the International Communication Association. She is also the coauthor, with Jesse Marx, of the book ''Redacted'' (Taller California Books, 2021). Her journal and conference papers include: * * * *

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