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Virginia Eubanks
01 · In focus
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02 · Connections
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03 · Background
From the source record.
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Political scientist and data-justice scholar; Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY (Affiliate Faculty in English, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy). Author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (St. Martin's Press, 2018) — winner of the 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award and the 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize — and Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age (MIT Press, 2011); co-edited Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith and Alethia Jones.
PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2004, dissertation "Popular technology: Citizenship and inequality in the information economy"), M.S. in Communication and Rhetoric from RPI (1999), B.A. in Literary Culture from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1994). 2016–17 New America Fellow under which Automating Inequality was completed.
Co-founder of Our Data Bodies, the participatory-research collective working across Charlotte, Detroit, and Los Angeles; co-founder of the Popular Technology Workshops (Troy, NY); founding member of Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP, 2005–2015), a welfare rights and economic justice group in New York's Capital Region. Featured in Shalini Kantayya's 2020 documentary Coded Bias alongside Joy Buolamwini, Safiya Noble, and Cathy O'Neil.
04 · Sources
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en.wikipedia.org
Checked 2026-06-07Wikipedia entry on Virginia Eubanks — primary secondary source for her 2004 PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (dissertation: "Popular technology: Citizenship and inequality in the information economy"), her M.S. in Communication and Rhetoric from RPI (1999), her B.A. in Literary Culture from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1994), her Associate Professor of Political Science position at the University at Albany, SUNY, her 2016-17 New America Fellowship, her named awards for Automating Inequality (2019 Lillian Smith Book Award; 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize; 2018 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize shortlist), her appearance in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias directed by Shalini Kantayya, and her co-founding roles in the Popular Technology Workshops and Our Knowledge, Our Power (OKOP, 2005–2015)
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albany.edu
Checked 2026-06-07University at Albany Rockefeller College faculty page — primary source for her full title (Associate Professor of Political Science; Affiliate Faculty in English at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy), her journalism appearing in The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, The Nation, Harper's, and Wired, and her current project documenting oral histories of the global automated welfare state through Voice of Witness (with Andrea Quijada)
Source: entities/persons/person-virginia-eubanks.md — movement-graph pin 914cdfd.