Allison Stanger is Middlebury Distinguished Endowed Professor; Co-Director (with Danielle Allen),
GETTING-Plurality Research Network, Harvard University; Distinguished Senior Fellow at the James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies; Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College; founding member of the Digital Humanism Initiative (Vienna); and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Stanger’s next book, Who Elected Big Tech? is forthcoming in 2026 with Yale University Press. She is working on a new book tentatively titled Fiat: A Brief History of Money and Democracy from Coins to Crypto and brainstorming Web 3.0 governance with Jaron Lanier, Audrey Tang, and Claude, among others. Stanger’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Conversation, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wired. She is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump (Yale University Press, 2019) and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2009).
She is a contributing writer for The Atlantic. Stanger is the co-editor (with Hannes Werthner et. al.) of Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook (Springer, 2024), which is open access, and co-editor (with W. Brian Arthur and Eric Beinhocker) of Complexity Economics (SFI Press, 2020). She is the creator of the Accountability Archive. Stanger has been called to testify before Congress on six occasions (by both Republicans and Democrats). She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. She majored in Mathematics as an undergraduate and has graduate degrees in Soviet Studies and Economics.
