Alondra Nelson
| Alondra Nelson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego, New York University |
| Occupation |
Sociologist Historian Professor |
| Known for |
science and technology studies political sociology social movements cultural sociology social theory African American studies |
| Title | Dean of Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University; Professor of Sociology, Columbia University |
| Board member of | Data and Society Research Institute |
| Website | Alondra Nelson |
Alondra Nelson (born 1968) is an award-winning American sociologist and author. She is the inaugural Dean of Social Science at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Nelson received her B.A. in anthropology with high distinction from the University of California at San Diego, graduating magna cum laude in 1994. At UCSD, she was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University in 2003.
From 2003-2009, she was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale University, where she was the recipient of the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching Excellence and was a Faculty Fellow in Trumbull College. At Yale, Nelson was the first black woman to join the Department of Sociology faculty.
Nelson was recruited to Columbia from Yale in 2009. She is the first African American to be tenured in the Department of Sociology at this institution. She has directed the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, is the founding co-director of the Columbia University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Council, and is now Dean of Social Science for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology and gender studies at Columbia.
Nelson was a member of the Council on Big Data, Ethics, and Society. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Data and Society Research Institute in New York city and the Center for Research on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic and Behavioral Genetics at the Columbia University Medical Center. In September 2016, Nelson joined the World Economic Forum Network on AI, the Internet of Things and the Future of Trust. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Eastern Sociological Society and the Board of Governors for the Society of Fellows at Columbia. She is Chair-Elect of the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association; her term at Chair begins in August 2017.
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