Research Interests: queer and feminist technoscience; reproductive justice; critical ethnic studies and queer of color critique; practice as research; pedagogy

Fellowships & Awards:

• Feminist Research Institute Working Group Grant, “Speculative Writing and Transformative Justice,” 2019-2020
• Mellon Initiative in Racial Capitalism Summer Graduate Fellowship, 2019
• Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, UC Davis (2017-2019)
• Feminist Research Institute Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, UC Davis (2018)
• HATCH Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, UC Davis (2018)
• Hlda Wilson Fellowship in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto (2015)

Degrees: 

• Master of Information, Culture and Technology & Women’s Health, University of Toronto (2016)
• Bachelor of Arts (with Distinction), Philosophy, Simon Fraser University (2013)    

Publications:

• Maya Cruz, Julia Jordan, Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas, Rebecca Jones, Sharena Thomas, Alyssa Ney & Sara Giordano (2019) Using the Feminist Science Shop Model for Social Justice: A Case Study in Challenging the Nexus of Racist Policing and Medical Neglect, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Special Issue: “Futures of Feminist Science Studies,” 48:3, 283-308, DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2019.1593840

• Maya Cruz. Report Back on Gender, Bodies, and Technology 2019: Technologics of Power and Resistance. 4S Backchannels, June 10th 2019.

Select Presentations:

• Maya Cruz, “Notes for the Queer Feminist Science Lab and Classroom,” 4S 2019: Innovations, Interruptions, Regenerations, September 7th 2019, Society for the Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, LA
• Maya Cruz, “Feminist Science and the Possibilities for Resistance and Transformation in the Neoliberal University: The Case of the Feminist Science Shop,” UC Davis Feminist Research Symposium, May 2019, UC Davis Feminist Research Institute, Davis, CA
• Maya Cruz and Sara Giordano, “Centering reproductive justice praxis in the University classroom through the feminist science shop,” Gender, Bodies, and Technology 2019: Technologics of Resistance, April 2019, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, VA
• Maya Cruz. “Contested Spaces at the Edge of the Clinic: Engaging Reproductive Justice through the Soft Architecture of the Clinic Sidewalk,” Feminist Theory and Research Symposium, May 2018, University of California, Davis

Groups and Affiliations:

• Asking Different Questions: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Science, UC Davis Feminist Research Institute, 2019 – present