Alondra Nelson

"During his presidential campaign, Joe Biden pledged that his administration would address inequality and racism. Now that he’s been sworn in as US president, his appointment of a prominent sociologist to the nation’s top science office is raising...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, who has studied the societal impacts of emerging technology as well as racism in science and medicine, will join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy director for science and society.

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), has been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to the position of Deputy...

The safeguards of democracy—including the exhausting, underappreciated work of so many people who uphold them—have stopped the U.S. from descending into authoritarianism, but the facts of our division remain bleak. Institutional distrust has been...

Imagine if, at the height of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers studying how society was changing had captured the moment in a time capsule. What information might social scientists today have gleaned from such an effort? How might that repository...

Eben Kirksey, American anthropologist and Member (2019–20) in the School of Social Science, takes a deep dive into the gene editing revolution in his newly released book, The Mutant Project (St. Martin’s Press, 2020).

Whose values are guiding gene...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) as one of 100 new members for 2020.

The selection committee cites Nelson “for making pioneering contributions to...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been awarded the 2020 Morison Prize in Science, Technology, and Society.

Conferred by MIT, the award recognizes outstanding individuals who combine humanistic values with...

In a paper recently published by Science, Harold F. Linder Professor Alondra Nelson and her co-authors address ethical concerns related to the methods of computational social science (CSS) and the optimal conditions for the utilization of data-based...