Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin

American sociologist

48 years old

Biography

Ruha Benjamin (born 1978) is a sociologist and professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. She works on the relationship between innovation and equity, particularly the intersection of race, justice, and technology. Benjamin authored People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013), Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019), Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022) and Imagination: A Manifesto (2024).

In 2024, she was named a MacArthur fellow.

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Career highlights

Employers / organisations

  • Princeton University

Notable works

  • Race After Technology

Awards & honours (2)

  • The Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice
  • MacArthur Fellows Program

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