{{Short description|American academic}} {{Infobox person | name = Lauren F. Klein | image = Lauren Klein at Digitorium.jpg | caption = Klein in 2020 | birth_place = United States | occupation = Associate Professor | employer = Emory University | known_for = digital humanities, data feminism }}
'''Lauren Klein''' is an American academic who works as an associate professor, and director of the Digital Humanities Lab at Emory University.{{citation needed|date=December 2025}} Klein is best known for her work in digital humanities and for co-authoring the book ''Data Feminism'' with Catherine D'Ignazio.<ref name="Wired"/><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|first= Peter |last=Dizikes|title='Data feminism' examines problems of bias and power that beset modern information|url=https://phys.org/news/2020-03-feminism-problems-bias-power-modern.html|date=March 9, 2020|website=phys.org|language=en-us|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Romanek|first=Neal|date=2020-06-01|title=Genius Interview: Lauren Klein|url=https://online.bright-publishing.com/view/562238/38/|magazine=FEED}}</ref>
== Early life and education ==
Klein studied comparative literature and computer science at Harvard University.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/files/comp_lit_newsletter_2013.pdf |title=Comp Lit News |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2013-10-01 |website=Department of Comparative Literature |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref> Before returning to graduate school, she worked as a software developer and bike messenger.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/an-outlaw-street-race-for-a-good-cause/?_r=0 |title=An Outlaw Street Race, for a Good Cause|last=Goodman |first=J. David |date=2009-11-24 |website=The New York Times |access-date=2020-11-06 }}</ref> She received her Ph.D. in English and American Studies from the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Certificate-Programs/American-Studies/Alumni |title=Alumni |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=American Studies |publisher=CUNY Graduate Center |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref>
== Career and research ==
Klein joined the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor, where she taught in the Computational Media program. She also founded the Digital Humanities Lab there. Her lab’s work on the Shape of History project brought new attention to the forgotten data visualization scheme created by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody in the nineteenth century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/results/|title=DH Awards 2017 Results |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Digital Humanities Awards: Highlighting Resources in Digital Humanities |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref> In 2017, she was named one of the "rising stars of digital humanities" by Inside Higher Ed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/08/02/rising-stars-digital-humanities |title=The New Wave in Digital Humanities|last=Fenton |first=Will |date=2017-08-02 |website=Inside Higher Ed |access-date=2020-11-06 }}</ref>
Klein’s research, which combines quantitative methods and archival research, proposes a way to "integrate race, gender, and postcolonial theory with computer learning to develop methodologies for performing research in bias-laden archives."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chun |first1=Wendy Hui Kyong |last2=Rhody |first2=Lisa |date=2014 |title=Working in the Digital Humanities: Uncovering Shadows between the Dark and the Light |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article-abstract/25/1/1/60673 |journal=Differences |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=1–25 |doi=10.1215/10407391-2419985 |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref> She is the author of ''An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States'', which was published by the University of Minnesota Press.<ref>{{cite podcast |url=https://newbooksnetwork.com/lauren-f-klein-an-archive-of-taste-race-and-eating-in-the-early-united-states-u-minnesota-press-2020/ |title=An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States |website=New Books Network |host=Diana DePasquale |date=2020-08-24 |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref> She is the co-author, with Catherine D’Ignazio, of ''Data Feminism'', which was published by MIT Press. ''Data Feminism'' was named a "must-read" book by WIRED Magazine and a 2021 PROSE Award finalist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/10/04/book-review-data-feminism-by-catherine-dignazio-and-lauren-f-klein/ |title=Book Review: Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein|last=Shukla |first=Prachi |date=2020-10-04 |website=LSE Review of Books |publisher=SAGE |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref><ref name="Wired">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/story/2020-spring-book-list/ |title=WIRED's 13 Must-Read Books for Spring |last=Ellis |first=Emma Grey |magazine=Wired |date= 2020-02-26 |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://publishers.org/news/association-of-american-publishers-announces-finalists-for-2021-prose-awards/?hss_channel=tw-20774514 |title=Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists for 2021 PROSE Awards |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Association of American Publishers |date=21 January 2021 |publisher=AAP |access-date=2021-02-08}}</ref> Klein is also co-editor, with Matthew K. Gold, of the ''Debates in the Digital Humanities'' book series, a "digital humanities bellwether" which offers a "hybrid model for open-access texts to be published in both experimental online spaces and traditional print forms."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/debates-in-the-digital-humanities# |title=Debates in the Digital Humanities |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=University of Minnesota Press |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref>
In 2019, Klein joined Emory University as an associate professor of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.emory.edu/stories/2019/12/er_english_qtm/campus.html|title=New English faculty bring expertise in digital humanities |last=Hunt |first=April |date=2019-12-05 |website=Emory News Center |publisher=Emory University |access-date=2020-11-06}}</ref>
==Works== * {{cite book |last1=D'Ignazio |first1=Catherine |last2=F. Klein |first2=Lauren |title=Data Feminism |date=October 3, 2023 |publisher=The MIT Press |isbn=9780262547185 |pages=328 |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547185/data-feminism/}} * {{cite journal |last1=Klein |first1=Lauren F. |title=An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States |journal=University of Minnesota Press |date=12 May 2020 |doi=10.5749/j.ctv10vkzpd|isbn=978-1-4529-6394-5 }}
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