Alyssa Newman

Alyssa Newman, PhD is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University. Previously, she held positions as the Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (2020-2022) and the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science and Technology Studies at Harvey Mudd College (2018-2020). Her research focuses on assisted reproductive technologies, racial health disparities, and multiracial identity formation.

Educationally, she earned her PhD in Sociology with a doctoral emphasis in Black Studies from UC Santa Barbara (2015) and a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley with minors in African American Studies and Demography. She teaches courses on the sociology of health/illness and technology/human reproduction at Georgetown.

Her work bridges sociology, bioethics, and science & technology studies, addressing intersections of race, gender, and technology in healthcare systems and family formations. Courses she teaches integrate empirical research with critical analysis of institutional structures impacting marginalized communities.