Brown CS Alum danah boyd Receives A Sloan Research Fellowship
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on March 9, 2026
Established in 1934, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aims to improve the welfare of all through the advancement of scientific knowledge. Brown CS alum and Advisory Board member danah boyd has just received one of the organization’s Sloan Research Fellowships, recognizing her as one of the most promising scientific researchers working today, part of the next generation of U.S. and Canadian scientific leaders. She receives a $75,000 stipend that may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of her research.
Currently the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at Cornell University, danah is the founder of Data & Society, a trustee of the Computer History Museum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a non-residential fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Widely recognized as an authority in the areas of media manipulation, algorithmic fairness, social media, privacy, and other topics, her recent work focuses on understanding how contemporary social inequities relate to technology and society, centering on what makes data legitimate. Her upcoming book - Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census - will be released in September. This recognition is the latest in a long list of accomplishments, including being elected as a AAAS fellow; honored with the MIT Morison Prize for Science, Technology, and Society; named to the Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech; and receiving the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award.
danah joins numerous recipients of Sloan Fellowships in the Brown CS community, including most recently Adriana Schulz, Stefanie Tellex, and Anna Lysyanskaya.
The full list of 2026 Sloan Fellows is available here.
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