Summary
Miriam Posner is an Associate Professor at UCLA with 11 years of experience teaching information studies and digital humanities and coordinating interdisciplinary programs that bridge technology, history, and cultural analysis. She researches and is writing a book on the technology of supply chain management, bringing a humanities perspective to the infrastructures that underpin contemporary logistics. At UCLA she has developed and taught both introductory and advanced digital humanities courses and has a background in curatorial and instructional innovation from roles at the Museum of the Moving Image, Yale, and Emory. Trained as a Ph.D. in Film Studies and American Studies (Yale) with a BA in History (Reed), she combines archival sensitivity with critical attention to the social lives of systems—making her work especially attuned to how technical practices shape everyday and institutional life. She is based in Los Angeles and welcomes conversations with industry insiders about the history and future of supply chain technology.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Film Studies and American Studies, Ph.D., Film Studies and American Studies at Yale University
B.A., History, B.A., History at Reed College