Mary L. Gray
{{short description|American anthropologist and author}}
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| name = Mary L. Gray
| image = Mary Gray, Microsoft Research, December 2015 (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Gray at Microsoft Research in December 2015.
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| nationality = American
| alma_mater = University of California, Davis (B.A.), San Francisco State University (M.A.), University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.)
| occupation = Anthropologist, Author
| employer = Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Microsoft Research, Indiana University
| known_for = Research on labor, identity, and human rights in the digital economy
| awards = MacArthur Genius Grant (2020)
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Mary L. Gray is an American anthropologist and author. She is a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, as well as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Along with her research, Gray teaches at Indiana University, maintaining an appointment as an Associate Professor of the Media School, with affiliations in American Studies, Anthropology, and Gender Studies.{{Cite web|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/mlg/|title=Mary L. Gray at Microsoft Research|website=Microsoft Research|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-08}} In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in recognition of her work "investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by the digital economy."{{Cite web|title=Mary L. Gray - MacArthur Foundation|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1061/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=www.macfound.org|language=en}}
Education
In 1992, Gray completed a B.A. in anthropology and Native American studies at University of California, Davis. Her senior project explored the role of contemporary Alaskan Native single mothers in subsistence economies. Her advisors were David Risling and William G. Davis. In 1999, Gray earned a M.A. in anthropology from San Francisco State University. Her thesis was on queer youth narratives, the topic of her first book. Gray's advisors were John Paul De Cecco and Gilbert Herdt. She completed a Ph.D. in communication at University of California, San Diego in 2004. Gray's doctoral advisors were Susan Leigh Star and Olga Vásquez. Her dissertation was titled Coming of Age in a Digital Era: Youth Queering Technologies in Small Town, USA.{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiana.edu/~qcentral/cv.html|title=Curriculum Vitae|website=Indiana University|access-date=2020-01-18}}
Career
Gray's early works explore the experiences of LGBTQ youth, with a particular focus on the lives of those in rural areas. Her book Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America examined how queer young people use digital tools to connect with and create community, challenging the primacy of urban areas as the focus of LGBTQ experience.{{Cite web|title=Out in the Country|url=https://nyupress.org/9780814731932/out-in-the-country|access-date=2020-10-09|website=NYU Press|language=en-US}} Gray's most recent book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, takes a deep dive into the depths of the "ghosts" or, human labor force, that allow some of the internet's largest websites to run smoothly.{{Cite web|url=https://ghostwork.info/ghost-work/|title=Ghost Work|date=2018-12-04|website=Ghost Work|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-21}} The book takes a look at big companies, like Google and Amazon, that use these "ghost workers" to do things like censor their sites while trying to pass it off as AI.
Awards
Selected works
- {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/inyourfacestorie00john|title=In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth|last=Gray|first=Mary L.|date=1999|publisher=Haworth Press|isbn=978-1-56023-887-4|language=en|url-access=registration}}Reviews of In Your Face:
- {{Cite journal|last=Leslie|first=Rodger|date=June 1999|title=Review|journal=The Booklist|publisher=Booklist Publications|volume=95|issue=19|pages=1805|issn=0006-7385}}
- {{Cite journal|date=November 2000|title=Review|journal=Reference and Research Book News|publisher=Ringgold Inc.|volume=15|issue=4|issn=0887-3763}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Anonymous|date=April 2001|title=Review|journal=SIECUS Report|publisher=Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.|volume=29|issue=4|pages=12–14|issn=0091-3995}}
- {{Cite book|title=Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America|last=Gray|first=Mary L.|date=2009|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0-8147-3220-5|language=en}}Reviews of Out in the Country:
- {{Cite journal|last=Kazyak|first=Emily|date=2010|title=Review|url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1160&context=sociologyfacpub|journal=Journal of Research in Rural Education|volume=25|issue=6}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Rosario|first=Vernon|author-link=Vernon Rosario|date=May 2010|title=Review|journal=The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide|volume=17|issue=3|pages=39|issn=1532-1118}}
- {{Cite journal|last=White|first=C. Todd|date=August 2010|title=Review|journal=American Anthropologist|language=en|volume=112|issue=3|pages=482–483|doi=10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01265_6.x}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Stapel|first=Christopher J.|date=December 2010|title=Review|journal=Rural Sociology|language=en|volume=75|issue=4|pages=637–639|doi=10.1111/j.1549-0831.2010.00039_4.x}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Brekhus|first=Wayne H.|date=January 2011|title=Review|journal=Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews|language=en|volume=40|issue=1|pages=39–41|doi=10.1177/0094306110391764q|s2cid=143710851|issn=0094-3061}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Gershon|first=Ilana|date=October 2011|title=Review|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=53|issue=4|pages=997–1007|doi=10.1017/S001041751100048X|issn=0010-4175|jstor=41241872|s2cid=146864834}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Greteman|first=Adam J.|date=January 2012|title=Review|journal=Journal of LGBT Youth|language=en|volume=9|issue=1|pages=63–66|doi=10.1080/19361653.2011.627502|s2cid=143761200|issn=1936-1653}}
- {{Cite book|title=Queering the Countryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies|date=2016|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-3077-0|editor-last=Gray|editor-first=Mary L.|language=en|editor-last2=Johnson|editor-first2=Colin R.|editor-last3=Gilley|editor-first3=Brian J.}}Reviews of Queering the Countryside:
- {{Cite journal|date=June 2016|title=Review|journal=The American Historical Review|language=en|volume=121|issue=3|pages=1055.4–1055|doi=10.1093/ahr/121.3.1055c|issn=0002-8762}}
- {{Cite journal|date=March 2016|title=Review|journal=ProtoView|publisher=Ringgold Inc.|volume=3|issue=12|issn=2372-3424}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Roberta|first=Jean|date=September 2016|title=Review|journal=The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide|volume=23|issue=5|pages=43|issn=1532-1118}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Hickey|first=A.|date=October 2016|title=Review|journal=Choice|volume=54|issue=2|pages=299|issn=0009-4978}}
- {{Cite journal|date=December 2016|title=Review|journal=Journal of American History|language=en|volume=103|issue=3|pages=730|doi=10.1093/jahist/jaw350|issn=0021-8723}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Stewart|first=Amanda A.|date=June 2017|title=Review|journal=Rural Sociology|language=en|volume=82|issue=2|pages=368–371|doi=10.1111/ruso.12172}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Kumer|first=Peter|date=2017|title=Review|journal=Teorija in Praksa|language=sl|publisher=University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences|volume=54|issue=2|pages=416–418|issn=0040-3598}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Vainker|first=Ellie|date=Winter 2017|title=Review|journal=Great Plains Quarterly|language=en|volume=37|issue=1|pages=57–62|doi=10.1353/gpq.2017.0003|s2cid=164597478|issn=2333-5092}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Collins|first=Brooke G.|date=December 2017|title=Review|journal=Sex Roles|language=en|volume=77|issue=11–12|pages=829–830|doi=10.1007/s11199-017-0789-0|s2cid=149442204|issn=0360-0025}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Hawkins|first=Blake|date=January 2018|title=Review|journal=Journal of Homosexuality|language=en|volume=65|issue=2|pages=259–261|doi=10.1080/00918369.2017.1333812|s2cid=34038851|issn=0091-8369}}
- {{Cite journal|last1=Sanchez|first1=Laura|last2=Sweetman|first2=Miranda K.|date=January 2019|title=Review|journal=Teaching Sociology|language=en|volume=47|issue=1|pages=74–77|doi=10.1177/0092055X18814435|s2cid=149783734|issn=0092-055X|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite book|title=Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass|last1=Gray|first1=Mary L.|last2=Suri|first2=Siddharth|date=2019|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-1-328-56628-7|language=en}}Reviews of Ghost Work:
- {{Cite journal|date=February 2019|title=Review|journal=Publishers Weekly|publisher=PWxyz, LLC|volume=266|issue=8|issn=0000-0019}}
- {{Cite journal|date=June 2019|title=Review|journal=ProtoView|publisher=Ringgold Inc.|volume=2019|issue=26|issn=2372-3424}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Shestakofsky|first=Benjamin|date=October 2019|title=Review|journal=ILR Review|language=en|volume=72|issue=5|pages=1283–1285|doi=10.1177/0019793919864564|s2cid=199357030|issn=0019-7939}} See also Ghost Work.
References
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External links
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