He is Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a Professor of Global Studies and Sociology.
[2] Previously, he served as a professor of sociology and director of the Institute of World Affairs and the global studies program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee[3].
In the early 2000s, he taught in the science and technology program at Stanford University and formulated a theory of algocracy, distinguishing it from bureaucratic, market, and surveillance-based governance systems, pioneering the field of algorithmic governance in the social sciences.
Author of Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization (Duke 2006) and Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor and Life Become Global (Duke 2015), Aneesh is currently completing a manuscript on the rise of what he calls modular citizenship.
Aneesh studied Physics, Economics, and Philosophy at the University of Allahabad, earning a Bachelor's degree there in 1987.