Ruha Benjamin

Ruha Benjamin is Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science and medicine, race and technology, knowledge and power. Ruha is author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford 2013), Race After Technology (Polity 2019), and editor of Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Duke 2019), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Books in order of publication:

People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier. Stanford University Press. 2013. .

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity. 2019. 

(As editor) Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Duke University Press. 2019. 

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. Princeton University Press, 2022.