Luis Felipe R. Murillo

Biography

Luis Felipe R. Murillo is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at University of Notre Dame. His work is dedicated to the anthropological study of the "commons" in science and technology with a focus on the intersections between moral economies, political cultures, and infrastructures of computing.

Grounded in long-term, collaborative ethnography, Dr. Murillo's research examines how digital technologies are designed and implemented in response to pressing social, political, and environmental issues. Based on multi-sited research, his first book, Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures (Stanford University Press, 2025), is a study of the "alterglobalization of computing expertise" among hacker-activist collectives in the Pacific Rim.

Dr. Murillo's current research and teaching span a wide range of topics in anthropology of science and technology, including the study of large-scale computing and its alternatives; the challenges of adopting and adapting "open technologies" for socio-environmental research; the production, circulation, and (re)appropriation of common software, hardware, and data; and, more recently, the role of language ideologies in the design and implementation of computational language models.