Affiliates
Prof. Ruha Benjamin
ruha@princeton.edu
Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine, with a focus on the tension between innovation and inequity. Ruha is the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press), and is at work on three new projects—Race After Technology (Polity), a book about machine bias, discriminatory design, and liberatory approaches to technoscience; an edited volume, Captivating Technology (Duke University Press), which examines how carceral logics shape social life well beyond prisons and police; and finally, The Emperor’s New Genes, a project that explores how population genomics reflects and redraws socio-political classifications such as race, caste, and citizenship. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study and most recently the 2017 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.
Susan J. Brison is Professor of Philosophy and Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth College, and a Visiting Research Collaborator at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She has previously held visiting positions at Tufts, New York University, and Princeton, where she was Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at the University Center for Human Values in 2016-17 and Visiting Professor of Philosophy in 2018-19. She has been a Mellon Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The author of Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (Princeton University Press) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation (Westview Press) and Free Speech in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press), she has also published articles on gender-based violence and on free speech theory in scholarly journals such as Ethics and Legal Theory, as well as in popular venues such as The New York Times and The Guardian.
Prof. Andrew Guess
aguess@princeton.edu
Andy Guess is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University.
His research focuses on how people learn and respond to (mis)information about politics, especially via social media.
Prof. Arvind Narayanan
arvindn@cs.princeton.edu
Arvind Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He leads the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. Narayanan also leads a research team investigating the security, anonymity, and stability of cryptocurrencies as well as novel applications of blockchains. He co-created a Massive Open Online Course as well as a textbook on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies. His doctoral research showed the fundamental limits of de-identification, for which he received the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award.
Narayanan is an affiliated faculty member at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton and an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. You can follow him on Twitter at @random_walker.
Ms. Jasmine Peled
jp20@alumni.princeton.edu
Jasmine Peled currently works on computer network analysis at the Department of Defense. She recently graduated from Princeton University, where she studied computer science and philosophy. Her work at Princeton focused on how undergraduate computer science courses can better incorporate material about ethics in order to encourage students to consider the ethical and societal implications of the technologies they develop. Her research interests include ethical computer science education, technology policy, and fairness in machine learning.
Prof. Philip Pettit
ppettit@princeton.edu
Philip Pettit divides his time between Princeton University, where he is based at the University Center for Human Values, and the Australian National University, School of Philosophy. He has worked in a range of areas, including ethical and political theory; the theory of collective and corporate agency; and the philosophy of mind. He has published a number of books in those areas, most recently The Birth of Ethics (OUP 2018). Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit appeared from OUP in 2007, edited by Geoffrey Brennan, R.E.Goodin, Frank Jackson and Michael Smith.
Prof. Olga Russakovsky
olgarus@cs.princeton.edu
Olga Russakovsky is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. Her research is in computer vision, closely integrated with machine learning and human-computer interaction. She completed her PhD at Stanford University and her postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. She was awarded the PAMI Everingham Prize in 2016 as one of the leaders of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, the MIT Technology Review’s 35-under-35 Innovator award in 2017 and was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2015. In addition to her research, she co-founded and continues to serve as a board member of the AI4ALL foundation dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in AI. She co-founded the Stanford AI4ALL camp teaching AI to high school girls (formerly “SAILORS”) and the Princeton AI4ALL camp teaching AI to URM high school students.
Prof. Peter Singer
psinger@princeton.edu
Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values. He first became well-known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation (1975). His other books include: Democracy and Disobedience (1973); Practical Ethics (1979, 3rd. ed. 2011); The Expanding Circle (1981, new ed 2011); Marx (1980); Hegel (1983); The Reproduction Revolution (1984) (co-authored with Deane Wells); Should the Baby Live? (1986) (co-authored with Helga Kuhse); How Are We to Live? (1995); Rethinking Life and Death (1996); One World (2002; revised edition One World Now, 2016); Pushing Time Away (2003); The President of Good and Evil (2004); The Ethics of What We Eat (2006) (co-authored with Jim Mason); The Life You Can Save (2009); The Point of View of the Universe (2014) co-authored with Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek; The Most Good You Can Do (2015); Ethics in the Real World (2016); and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, co-authored by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek. Singer holds his appointment at the Center jointly with his appointment as Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, attached to the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. Singer was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2012. He is the founder and board chair of The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit that fights extreme poverty.
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