Dr. Alondra Nelson

Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council and Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is an acclaimed researcher and author, who explores questions of science, technology, and social inequality. Her books include Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome and Technicolor: Race, Technology and Everyday Life. In 2002, Nelson edited “Afrofuturism,” an influential special issue of the journal Social Text, drawing together contributions from scholars and artists, who were members of a synonymous online community she established in 1998.