Short Bio
Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a faculty affiliate in the History of Science Department. Her scholarship covers the politics, cultures, and ethics of hacking. She is the author of two books on computer hackers: Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, 2014), winner of the 2015 Diana Forsythe Prize. She is the founder and editor of Hack_Curio, a video portal into the cultures and politics of hacking, and in 2022 hosted the BBC4 radio and podcast series, The Hackers and delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester. She writes for popular media outlets including the New York Times, Wired, and the Atlantic. She formerly held the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University and was an assistant professor at NYU. In 2005, she received her Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago.