Marisa Leavitt Cohn

Marisa Leavitt Cohn is an interdisciplinary researcher with a BA in Anthropology from Barnard College and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from UC Irvine. Cohn combines ethnographic and research-through-design approaches to explore the chronopolitics of computational media and labor. Her work examines cultural dimensions of infrastructural decay, software maintenance, and technological obsolescence. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropological Approaches to Data and Infrastructure at the IT University of Copenhagen, member of the Nordic Critical Fabulations network, and a founding co-director of the ETHOS Lab.

ABOUT ETHOS Lab
Based at the IT University of Copenhagen, ETHOS Lab is an experimental space for digital methods and critical inquiry, founded within the Technologies in Practice (TiP) research group. TiP is internationally recognized for interdisciplinary work across STS, infrastructure studies, and digital culture. ETHOS was selected in 2024 as a best practices case in Horizon Europe’s Shaping Europe’s Future initiative for knowledge valorisation in the social sciences, humanities, and arts.

This profile was last updated on 13 May 2025.