Visiting Scholars and Affiliates

The Knight Institute’s visiting research scholars and affiliates program welcomes leading scholars and thinkers from a range of disciplines—including law, journalism, the social sciences, and computer science—to spend a semester or year at the Institute focusing on projects that engage with critical questions relating to the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age. These projects may take a variety of forms, including commissioning and editing essays or scholarly articles around a common theme; undertaking empirical research; conceptualizing and organizing public events; convening scholars, policymakers, or others; or developing new frameworks for the Institute’s litigation, research, and public education efforts. Visiting scholars and affiliates also participate in discussions about the Institute’s litigation, research, and public education projects and help connect the Institute with scholarly and other communities of relevance to the Institute’s work.

Read more about the Institute’s Visiting Research Scholars program here.

Read more about the Institute’s research program here.

  • RonNell Andersen  Jones

    RonNell Andersen Jones

    Senior Visiting Research Fellow, 2023-2024; University of Utah

  • Sonja R. West

    Sonja R. West

    Senior Visiting Research Fellow, 2023-2024; University of Georgia

  • Sam Lebovic

    Sam Lebovic

    Senior Visiting Research Scholar, 2023-2024; George Mason University

  • Arvind Narayanan

    Arvind Narayanan

    Knight Institute Visiting Senior Research Scientist 2022-2023; Princeton University

  • J. Nathan Matias

    J. Nathan Matias

    Knight Institute Visiting Associate Research Scholar, 2022-2023; Cornell University

  • Joel Simon

    Joel Simon

    Senior Visiting Fellow, 2022-2023

  • Genevieve Lakier

    Genevieve Lakier

    Knight Institute Senior Visiting Research Scholar 2021-2022; University of Chicago Law School

  • Evelyn Douek

    Evelyn Douek

    Knight Institute Senior Research Fellow 2021-2022; Stanford Law School

  • Ethan Zuckerman

    Ethan Zuckerman

    Knight Institute Visiting Research Scholar 2020-2021; University of Massachusetts at Amherst

  • Amy Kapczynski

    Amy Kapczynski

    Knight Institute Senior Visiting Research Scholar, 2019-2020; Yale Law School

  • Cristian Farias

    Cristian Farias

    Knight Institute Writer-in-Residence, 2019-2020; Harvard Law School

  • Surya Mattu

    Surya Mattu

    Resident Technologist, 2019-2020

  • Jamal Greene

    Jamal Greene

    Knight Institute Senior Visiting Research Scholar, 2018-2019; Columbia Law School

  • David Pozen

    David Pozen

    Knight Institute Senior Visiting Research Scholar 2017-2018; Columbia Law School