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Ruha Benjamin

01 · In focus

One person, in the field.

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person

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person-ruha-benjamin
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Tags us, princeton, professor, sociologist, science-and-technology-studies, african-american-studies, algorithmic-accountability, race-and-technology, new-jim-code, abolitionist-tools, black-feminist, ida-b-wells-just-data-lab, macarthur-fellow-2024, author

Ruha Benjamin · 2 direct neighbours visible

02 · Connections

3 adjacencies, by relation.

Split by direction. Direct links are the ones Ruha Benjamin’s source record names; inferred backlinks are records elsewhere in the corpus that point at this entity. Some records appear in both because the corpus names them from both sides — those rows carry a note.

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03 · Background

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Sociologist of science and technology; Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab — the Lab's stated mission is to "bring together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation" and to "rethink and retool data for justice." Named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow with the citation "Illuminating how technology reflects and reproduces inequality and championing the role of imagination in social transformation."

Author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Polity, 2019), the named publication most often credited with bringing the New Jim Code — her framework for examining how seemingly neutral algorithms replicate racial bias — into general circulation in the algorithmic-accountability literature. Her subsequent books include Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Imagination: A Manifesto (Norton, 2024).

Holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and was previously Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Boston University (2010–2014), with prior postdoctoral and faculty fellowships at UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics and the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society Program.

04 · Sources

Where this came from.

3 sources listed from the pinned corpus. Links are shown only when the source URL is a valid HTTP(S) address.

  1. en.wikipedia.org

    Checked 2026-06-03

    Wikipedia entry on Ruha Benjamin — primary secondary source for her MA/PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley (2008), her prior Assistant Professorship in African American Studies and Sociology at Boston University (2010–2014), her postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics, her faculty fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society Program, her Princeton position in African American Studies, the 2017 Princeton President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and her named membership of the "Real Facebook Oversight Board" (2020)

  2. ruhabenjamin.com

    Checked 2026-06-03

    Author's official biographical page — primary source for her named full title (Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University), her founding-director role at the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab, her named book list with publishers (People's Science, Stanford University Press 2013; Captivating Technology, Duke University Press 2019 edited; Race After Technology, Polity 2019; Viral Justice, Princeton University Press 2022; Imagination: A Manifesto, Norton 2024), and the self-framing quotation "The tension between innovation and equity is mainly what keeps me up at night"

  3. macfound.org

    Checked 2026-06-03

    MacArthur Foundation 2024 Fellow page — primary source for the citation "Illuminating how technology reflects and reproduces inequality and championing the role of imagination in social transformation", her named Princeton title (Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies), and her founding-director role at the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab

Source: entities/persons/person-ruha-benjamin.md — movement-graph pin 914cdfd.