Benjamin Lindquist

Benjamin Lindquist is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Northwestern University, part of the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2023). His research bridges art history and the history of computing, examining how artistic concepts shaped early computer simulations of creativity and intelligence.

• Education:
• BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• MFA, Yale University School of Art
• PhD, Princeton University

His research interests include the history of computing, history of science and technology, and 20th-century American history. He explores intersections between art, technology, and media through projects like analyzing speech synthesis technologies and visual culture.

Affiliations: Science in Human Culture program at Northwestern. No explicit awards listed but actively publishes in top journals like Critical Inquiry.

His work often critiques how technical systems reflect cultural values, as seen in his analysis of 19th-century media and religious iconography.