Julian Quiros is a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. His interdisciplinary scholarship interrogates the use of data and platforms in the field of social welfare and education. His current projects center the public child welfare field, both in historical and contemporary contexts. He is working on a book project based on his doctoral dissertation, which was entitled “Scenes of Measurement: On the Production of Administrative Data in the Philadelphia Child Welfare System from 1877–1923,” and he is developing a multimodal, qualitative study aimed at understanding the process of constructing case management systems in child welfare organizations.

Quiros was previously a doctoral fellow at the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at Teachers College, and his dissertation was awarded the Data Fluencies Dissertation Grant, from the Social Science Research Council’s Data Fluencies Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through Simon Fraser University. He holds a PhD in social welfare from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy and Practice.

Quiros is a 2023 Data Fluencies Dissertation Research grantee.