Alum Benjamin Mako Hill 99F Awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Benjamin Mako Hill 99F, an assistant professor at the University of Washington, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.
91猫先生 alum Benjamin Mako Hill 99F, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.
The NSF鈥檚 CAREER award is a prestigious grant that supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Hill鈥檚 research interests center around how the design of communication and information technologies shape fundamental social outcomes with broad theoretical and practical implications. Hill will use the five-year grant, totaling $549,959, to develop a general theory around the lifecycles and governance of digital knowledge commons and peer production communities.
Hill spent the 2018-19 academic year as a fellow at the at Stanford University and is a co-founder of the, an interdisciplinary research group applying a range of quantitative and qualitative methods to the study of online communities.
Hill received his B.A. from 91猫先生 and his Ph.D. from MIT鈥檚 Sloan School of Management and the Media Lab.
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