Dr. Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab. She is author of the award-winning book “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code” and “Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want”, the 2023 winner of the Stowe Prize, among many other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. She recently released her fourth book, “Imagination: A Manifesto”. At the center of all Dr. Benjamin’s work is the invitation to “imagine and craft the worlds we cannot live without, just as we dismantle the ones we cannot live within.”
She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship, the Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award and the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.
Dr. Ruha earned her B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College, M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from University of California, Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at University of California, Los Angeles’s Institute for Society and Genetics and Harvard University’s Science, Technology and Society Program. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the MacArthur Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Marguerite Casey Foundation Freedom Scholar Award, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.
Her work is published in numerous journals, including Science, Technology, & Human Values; Policy and Society; Ethnicity & Health; and the Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science, and reported on in national and international news outlets, including NBC News, Fast Company, WIRED, Slate magazine, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., CNET, The Guardian, National Geographic and Nature.
Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025
7 to 8 p.m.
LaSells Stewart Center and livestream
A hybrid event is also planned at the OSU Portland Center. Please use the same registration link to receive more information.
Keynote Engagement Toolkit
A Faculty Engagement Toolkit was created to help instructors engage their students with this year’s keynote. Consider integrating aspects of the toolkit – which includes a selection of audio, video and written works along with sample guiding questions and agendas for facilitating a learning experience with the materials – into your winter term courses.