Lauren Klein

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Lauren Klein

Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English

Professor at Emory University, director of Digital Humanities Lab and Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network.

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Lauren Klein is a Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and English at Emory University, where she directs the Digital Humanities Lab and Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Before arriving at Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. She received her PhD in English and American Studies from CUNY Graduate Center, and her AB in Literature (English and French) from Harvard University.

She works at the intersection of data science and machine learning (what people are now calling ‘AI’), data and AI ethics, and American literature and culture, with an emphasis on research questions about gender and race. She is the author of several books, including Data Feminism (MIT Press, 2020), coauthored with Catherine D’Ignazio, which was named a ‘Must-Read Book for Spring 2020’ by WIRED Magazine, and An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), which shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about a range of people, from the nation’s first presidents to their enslaved chefs, who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States. Her next major project, _Data by Design: A Partial History of Visualization and Power, coauthored with members of my research group, will be published in print and online by MIT Press in Fall 2026. With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities (University of Minnesota Press), a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. The most recent book in this series is Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023.

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