
Professor
Department of African American Studies
Director of Graduate Affairs (DGA)
Phone:
(609) 258-6936
Email Address:
ruha@princeton.edu
Office Location:
003 Stanhope Hall
Website:

(Duke 2019)

(Polity 2019)
Professor Benjamin received her BA in sociology and anthropology from Spelman College, MA and PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley, and completed postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics and Harvard University’s Science, Technology, and Society Program. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Institute for Advanced Study. In 2017, she received the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.