Dr. Safiya U. Noble

Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Studies and Department of African American Studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA where she holds appointments in Gender Studies, and Education. She is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Currently, she is a visiting professor to the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School of Communication.

Noble’s academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, and technology design. Her monograph on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines is entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018, NYU Press). She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, and is the co-editor of two books: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online (Peter Lang, Digital Formations, 2016), and Emotions, Technology & Design (Elsevier, 2015). Safiya holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno with an emphasis on African American/Ethnic Studies.

More information and publications are available at www.safiyaunoble.com