Kim Fernandes is a researcher, writer and educator interested in disability, data and technologies in the majority world. They are currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Their first book project, “Quantifying the Body: Disability, Data and Governance in Urban India,” attends to the practices and politics of identifying and enumerating disability through paper-based and digital processes.
Fernandes holds a joint PhD with Distinction in Anthropology & Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development in 2024. They are also an affiliate at Data & Society and the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life. They are also the incoming Managing Editor of Platypus, a blog for the anthropology of science and technology. Their recent work has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Taraknath Das Foundation’s Marion Jemmott Fellowship. Fernandes also holds an MSEd in Statistics, Measurement, Assessment and Research Technologies from the University of Pennsylvania, an EdM in International Education Policy from Harvard University, and a BSFS (honors) in International Politics from Georgetown University.