Allison Stanger

Allison Stanger is a Distinguished Endowed Professor at Middlebury College, with concurrent roles as co-director of the GETTING-Plurality Research Network, faculty affiliate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Her research critically examines the intersection of digital technology and democratic institutions, focusing on how big tech corporations influence electoral processes, the historical relationship between monetary systems and governance, and the resurgence of colonial power dynamics through artificial intelligence. This work spans political economy, platform regulation, and the sociotechnical evolution of money from physical currency to cryptocurrency.

Stanger is authoring "Who Elected Big Tech?" (forthcoming, Yale University Press) and "Fiat: A Brief History of Money and Democracy from Coins to Crypto," while leading the GETTING-Plurality Research Network's initiatives on fostering pluralistic digital public spheres through interdisciplinary collaboration.