Nadia Karizat

Nadia Karizat’s work is situated in the fields of Social Computing, Women and Gender Studies (WGS), and Feminist Science, Technology and Society Studies (STS), primarily investigating the connections between technology, power, bodily autonomy, and reproductive (in)justice. 

Her research explores how technology shapes and is shaped by people’s reproductive health experiences and decisions, particularly in the U.S. context where certain meanings and values are ascribed to technology, reproduction, and various reproductive futures and outcomes (e.g., [in]fertility, pregnancy). She is increasingly interested in how individuals’ and communities’ self-determination over their reproductive lives is configured by technology and processes of anticipation, specifically in cases of sociotechnical anticipation work aimed at securing “desirable” reproductive futures. A portion of her research examines questions of the safety, trust, and privacy of sexual and reproductive health data given the ubiquity of surveillance infrastructure and reproductive injustice.

Karizat draws heavily from reproductive justice in her research and predominantly takes feminist, interpretivist, and critical phenomenological approaches to qualitative data. She employs data collection methods such as content analysis, semi-structured interviews, surveys, and photovoice, alongside analysis methods including constructivist grounded theory, thematic analysis, and situational analysis.

Her work has been funded by a wide range of sources, including the Center for the Education of Women+, the Digital Studies Institute, the Rackham Graduate School, and the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Areas of interest

Anticipation; Body Autonomy; Critical algorithm studies; Digital Technologies; Health Information Practices; Identity; Internet of Things; Labor; Marginalization; Mental Health; mHealth Technologies; Online Forums; Privacy; Reproduction; Reproductive Health; Reproductive Technologies; Sexual Health; Sociotechnical Entanglement; Social Media; Stigma; Surveillance; Well-Being

Honors & Awards

The Gutsy Broad Fellowship (2025) 
UMSI Merit Scholar (2022) 
The Margaret Mann Award (2021)

Education

B.A. in English Language and Literature, Minor: Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
M.S. in Health Informatics, M.H.I., University of Michigan, School of Information & School of Public Health
M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning, M.U.R.P., University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning