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Benjamin Mako Hill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, with adjunct roles in Human-Centered Design & Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, and the Information School. He is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and a Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (2023–2024). His research focuses on online communities, peer production (e.g., Wikipedia, Linux), and how technology design influences social outcomes. He holds a PhD from MIT in Management and Media Arts & Science.
Education: PhD (2013) and MS (2007) from MIT, BA (2003) from Hampshire College. Awards include the Dordick Award for Best Dissertation (2013) and multiple best paper honors at CHI and CSCW conferences.
Research interests span digital public goods, collaborative knowledge systems, and socio-technical dynamics. His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (e.g., $549,959 CAREER grant for digital knowledge commons research) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Publications span journals like Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, with over 50 peer-reviewed articles. He co-founded the Community Data Science Collective and leads projects on open source sustainability, governance of digital communities, and computational social science.
