Shiloh L. Deitz

Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University. I study infrastructural inequality and its uneven effects, applying disability justice theory to reimagine data science, AI, and GIS.

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  • Fast, Victoria, and Shiloh Deitz. 2025. “GIScience II: Disability GIS.” Progress in Human Geography. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325251385569

  • Deitz, Shiloh. 2025. “A Humble Proposal for GeoAI: Epistemology, Methodology, and Curb Ramp Classification.” Canadian Geographies. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.70043

  • Deitz, Shiloh, Will Payne, Eric Seymour, Kathe Newman, and Lauren Nolan. 2024. “Local Landscapes of Assisted Housing: Reconciling Layered and Imprecise Administrative Data for Research Purposes.” Cityscape.

  • Deitz, Shiloh. 2023. “Outlier Bias: AI Classification of Curb Ramps, Outliers, and Context.” Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231203669

  • Deitz, Shiloh, Amy Lobben, and Arielle Alferez. 2021. “Squeaky Wheels: Missing Data, Disability, and Power in the Smart City.” Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211047735

  • Deitz, Shiloh, and Katie Meehan. 2019. “Plumbing Poverty: Mapping Hot Spots of Racial and Geographic Inequality in U.S. Household Water Insecurity.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1530587

  • Deitz, Shiloh, and Kristen Barber. 2015. “Geographies of Inequality: Urban Renewal and the Race, Gender, and Class of Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Race, Gender & Class.

Grants & Funding

SSHRC Insight Grant (2024–2028) — Computational Urban Accessibility: Understanding, Mapping, and Scoring Barriers in the Built Environment. Collaborator. $277,846.