Ruha Benjamin

I am a professor of African American studies at Princeton University, founding director of the IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab and author of two books, People’s Science and Race After Technology, and editor of Captivating Technology.

I am currently working on a fourth book, Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want.

I write, teach, and speak widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.

“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.”

— Ruha Benjamin

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RESEARCH

recent articles

Assessing Risk, Automating Racism

“Assessing Risk, Automating Racism,” (2019) Science Vol 366, Issue 6464. (paper)

PROPHETS AND PROFITS OF RACIAL SCIENCE

“Prophets and Profits of Racial Science.” (2018) Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 1: 41-53. (abstract)

BLACK AFTERLIVES MATTER

“Black Afterlives Matter: Cultivating Kinfulness as Reproductive Justice,” (2018) in Making Kin Not Population, edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway. Prickly Paradigm Press. (Republished in Boston Review)

CULTURA OBSCURA

“Cultura Obscura: Race, Power, and “Culture Talk” in the Health Sciences.” (2017) American Journal of Law & Medicine Vol 43: 2-3, 225-238. (paper).

WHAT DO WE OWE EACH OTHER?

“What Do We Owe Each Other? Moral Debts and Racial Distrust in Experimental Stem Cell Science,” (2017) Ch6 in Subprime Health: Debt and Race in US Medicine, Ehlers & Hinkson, eds. University of Minnesota Press.