Erin McElroy is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. McElroy’s work focuses upon intersections of gentrification, technology, fascism, empire, and racial capitalism, alongside housing justice organizing, countermapping, and transnational solidarities. This informs the focus of their manuscript, Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times (Duke University Press in 2024), as well as three newer projects: one focused on the urban geographies of technofascism, one on landlord technologies of dispossession, and one on political software projects grounded in territorial sovereignty struggles.

Research/Teaching Areas: When it comes to teaching, McElroy's classes focus on technology, displacement, racial capitalism, US empire, technocapitalism, social movements, housing justice, anti-imperialism, technofascism, and abolition. Fields explored include critical race and ethnic studies, feminist studies, urban studies, science and technology studies, urban geography, and digital geography.

Current Projects/Research: McElroy, Erin. Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist 

Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024.

McElroy, Erin. “Undoing Landlord Technologies: Beyond the Propertied Logics of the Pandemic Past and Present.” In Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, edited by Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, 79–94. Duke University Press, 2025.

McElroy, Erin. “Human Capital and Digital Citizenship: Postsocialism’s Urban Dispossessions.” In Urban Marginality, Racialisation, Interdependence, edited by Alexandrescu, Filip, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica. Routledge, 2025.

McElroy, Erin, Matthew Martignoni, Jeantelle Laberinto, Priya Prabhakar, and Joseph Smooke. “Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco.” In Dispatches from the Threshold: Tenant Power in Times of Crisis, edited by Rae Baker and Alexander Ferrer, 95–107. Fernwood Publishing, 2025.

McElroy, Erin. “The Work of Landlord Technology: The Fictions of Frictionless Property Management.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 42, no. 4 (2024): 456–75. 

McElroy, Erin. “Dis/Possessory Data Politics: From Tenant Screening to Anti-Eviction Organizing.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 47, no. 1 (2023): 54–70. 

McElroy, Erin, and Manon Vergerio. “Automating Gentrification: Landlord Technologies and Housing Justice Organizing in New York City Homes.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 40, no. 4 (2022): 607–26.