DALOSS is excited to welcome Dr. Matt Mahmoudi as an affiliate researcher
Dr Matt Mahmoudi is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, with a research focus on digital urban infrastructures. He’s currently leading a research project into red-lining and resistance in digital cities, and the “smart”-urban reproduction of racial capitalism.
Matt comes from a scholar-practitioner background, consisting among other things of leading Amnesty International’s research and advocacy work on AI-driven surveillance from the NYPD’s surveillance machine to Automated Apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territory,
Matt is a co-editor on Resisting Borders & Technologies of Violence (Haymarket, 2024) together with Mizue Aizeki and Coline Schupfer, and his forthcoming book is titled Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control (University of California Press, February 2025).
As an Affiliate Researcher, Matt is interested in the digital manifestations of Denmark’s “ghetto laws”, such as AI systems in service delivery and policing, including predictive policing, facial recognition, and ADMs, and the manners in which these digital urban infrastructures reshape the city for marginalised “non-Western” Danes.
Welcome Matt!