Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 46–47) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Spelman College (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Main interests | Science, Medicine, and Technology; Race-Ethnicity and Gender; Knowledge and Power |
| Website | www |
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), and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022).
In 2024, she was named a MacArthur fellow.