Safiya Noble

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Safiya Umoja Noble is an internet studies scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. UCLA lists her as "the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies." She is founder and director of the UCLA Center on Race & Digital Justice, co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power, and co-director of the UCLA DataX Initiative. She is the author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), described by UCLA as a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines. In 2021 she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her work on algorithmic discrimination. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno.

The record

• Also known as: Safiya Umoja Noble

Notes

STAGING: temp id EB-02. FLAG — CENTER NAME UNSTABLE ACROSS UCLA'S OWN PAGES: SEIS directory says 'Center on Race & Digital Justice' ('Founder and Director… (2022-Present)'); the author's current bio and UCLA Newsroom say 'Center on Resilience & Digital Justice.' This looks like a rename, but no source in this packet confirms a rename date; the description follows the SEIS directory form and this note carries the variant — do not present either as settled without a dated check at merge. Sources say Director / Founder and Director, not 'Faculty Director.' CURATOR'S JUDGMENT (DRAFT): Noble is the packet's anchor author: Algorithms of Oppression (EB-03) is the search-bias text the rest of the scholarly spine cites around.

Relationships

• University of California, Los Angeles — affiliated with
  Noble is Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at UCLA (live record CTL-E-4176, School), per UCLA's SEIS faculty directory.

Referenced by

• Algorithms of Oppression — authored by → this record
• Black Digital Studies — related to → this record

Sources

• UCLA SEIS faculty directory (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2).'; 'Founder and Director, UCLA Center on Race & Digital Justice (2022-Present)'; 'Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012)'. (primary source · build store)
• Noble, Bio/CV, safiyaunoble.com (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Resilience & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at UCLA.' (primary source · build store)
• UCLA Promise Institute (accessed 2026-10-29): 'She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno where she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.' (primary source · build store)
• UCLA Newsroom Experts (accessed 2026-10-29): 'Safiya Umoja Noble is David O. Sears Presidential Chair in Social Sciences. She is a professor in the department of gender studies, director of the Center on Resilience and Digital Justice at UCLA.' (primary source · build store)

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