Biography
Jenna Imad Harb is a Research Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). Her research areas of interest are surveillance, technology, social assistance, migration, development, and social inequality. She has published on issues of anti-violence technologies, policing technologies, data protection, digital platforms, the regulation and social implications of AI, and the financialisation of welfare.
Guided by insights from Regulatory Governance, Science and Technology Studies, and Sociology of Labour, Jenna’s dissertation examined how humanitarians adapt to ongoing, sustained crises. Focusing on Lebanon as a transnational case of prolonged emergency response, Jenna employs a multi-sited ethnography to unpack how humanitarians mitigate breakdown in aid systems with (often overlooked) forms of labour. By interrogating how technology and work shape humanitarians’ adaptive strategies, her research highlights power asymmetries along the lines of gender, disability, class, migration status, race, and transnational domination.