1. Ruha Benjamin was born on 1978 and is a sociologist and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
13 Facts About Ruha Benjamin
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Ruha Benjamin was born to an African-American father and a mother of Indian and Persian descent.
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Ruha Benjamin describes her interest in the relationship between science, technology, and medicine as prompted by her early life.
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Ruha Benjamin has lived and spent time in South Central Los Angeles; Conway, South Carolina; Majuro, South Pacific, and Swaziland, Southern Africa.
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Ruha Benjamin received her Bachelor of Arts in sociology and anthropology from Spelman College before completing her PhD in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2008.
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Ruha Benjamin completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics in 2010 before taking a faculty fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society Program.
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From 2010 to 2014, Ruha Benjamin was assistant professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Boston University.
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Ruha Benjamin develops her concept of the "New Jim Code", which adapted Michelle Alexander's work The New Jim Crow, to analyze how seemingly "neutral" algorithms and applications can replicate or worsen racial bias.
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Ruha Benjamin is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
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Ruha Benjamin's work focuses on dimensions of science, technology, and medicine, race and citizenship, knowledge and power.
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Ruha Benjamin serves on the Executive Committees for the Program in Global Health and Health Policy and Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University.
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On September 25,2020, Ruha Benjamin was named as one of the 25 members of the so-called "Real Facebook Oversight Board", an independent monitoring group over Facebook.
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Ruha Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Fund Freedom Scholar Award and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, and Institute for Advanced Study, among others.