Jessie Daniels

Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Based In: New York, NY

Year at Millay: 2023

Awards/Honors: Fellow, Arthur Vining Davis Aspen Fellowship, Aspen Ideas Festival, Arthur Vining Davis Aspen Foundations, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL (2017); Fellow, CMDS Fellowship, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2015–2017); Award Winner, Public Sociology Award, Communications, Information Technology and Media Section, American Sociological Association, Washington, DC (2015); Grant Recipient, Public Health Practice Faculty Mini-Grant, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY (2015); Grant Recipient, Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications, New York, NY (2013); Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, The CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY (2012–2013); Grant Recipient, Ford Foundation, New York, NY (2012–2013); Award Winner, Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year Award, Society for Public Health Education (2011); Scholar, Civil Discourse Project, Duke University, Durham, NC (2010); Grant Recipient, Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Fellow, MacArthur Fellows Program, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL (2007); Scholar-in-Residence, Third Millennium Foundation, New York, NY (2005); Fellow, Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH (1993–1994).

Website: https://www.jessiedaniels.net/

Jessie Daniels (she/they), PhD is a queer, white writer and Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and The CUNY Graduate Center. Daniels is also affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and the Oxford Internet Institute. Her most recent book is Nice White Ladies, which received coveted starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was included on their list of Best Nonfiction of 2021. Outside the academy, Daniels has worked in the tech industry and at Rikers Island. Daniels is also an avid quad roller-skater, a fan of house music and anything else that includes a disco ball. In residence at Millay, she worked on Out to the Blue Water, a memoir about the madness of being raised in whiteness and learning to resist it.