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Specializations

  • Archives & Recordkeeping in Practice
  • Critical Data Studies
  • Technology Policy & Ethics

Research Areas

Biography

Pelle G. Tracey’s interests are in archives and records, automation, tech policy, and the future of work. His work explores how recordkeeping and automated technologies work in practice, particularly when deployed in frontline government, care work or housing contexts. His current research is an ethnographic investigation of homeless services’ coordinated entry systems, which determine how life-saving aid is allocated to vulnerable people. This work aims to make homeless services more fair and effective through policy and design interventions, and through building partnerships with policymakers, municipal governments and community groups. Tracey was a 2022 LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) fellow and holds a bachelor's degree from Earlham College and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan School of Information.

Education

  • Ph D, Information, University of Michigan, 2025
  • BA, Peace & Global Studies and Studio Art, Earlham College, 2017

Publications and Contributions

  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    After Automation: Homelessness Prioritization Algorithms and the Future of Care Labor (2024)
    Big Data & Society Authors: Pelle Tracey, P. Garcia
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    Intermediation: Algorithmic Prioritization in Practice in Homeless Services (2024)
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Authors: Pelle Tracey, P Garcia
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Intermediation: Discretion and Care in the infrastructures of Homeless Services (2024)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science Author: Pelle Tracey
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Reparations of the Horse?: Algorithmic Reparations and Overspecialized Remedies (2024)
    Big Data & Society Authors: C Doyle, M Alvarez-Garcia, Pelle Tracey, G Grill, C Whitney, M Chambers
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    The Technopolitics of Waiting: Case Studies of AI Training in China and Homeless Services in the U.S. (2024)
    Association of Internet Researchers Authors: Pelle Tracey, B Z Zhang
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    Recordkeeping, Logistics, And Translation: A Study Of Homeless Services Systems As Infrastructure (2023)
    Archival Science Authors: Pelle Tracey, P Garcia, R Punzalan
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    Sorting like a State: Algorithmic Prioritization in Homeless Services (2023)
    Association for Information Science and Technology Author: Pelle Tracey
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Towards a Theory of Low-Tech Algorithms (2023)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science Author: Pelle Tracey
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Translation work: Recordkeeping and algorithms in the homeless services system (2023)
    Archival Education & Research Institute Author: Pelle Tracey
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    The Infrastructure of last resort: Logistics and translation in homeless services (2022)
    Society for the Social Studies of Science Author: Pelle Tracey
  • Conference Poster
    Reddit as a forum for social service workers (2021)
    Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Authors: Pelle Tracey, A Rayburn

Presentations

  • Ethnographic Stories in Information Science (2024)
    Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Intermediation: Algorithms, Homelessness, and the Politics of Being In-Between (2024)
    STS Speaker series, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Intermediation: Algorithms, Homelessness, and the Politics of Being In-Between (2024)
    University of Washington iSchool, Research Symposium series - Seattle, WA
  • Examining the Relationship Between Murals and Philadelphia Property Values (2023)
    LEADING fellow poster session - Philadelphia, PA
  • Translation Work: Recordkeeping in the Homeless Services System (2023)
    Monash University Records Continuum Research Group - Melbourne, Australia
  • Infrastructure and circulation (2021)
    Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts - Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Theorizing Care and the Digital (2021)
    Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts - Ann Arbor, Michigan