Angela Saini
Angela Saini (’22) is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. Angela has helped change the way people think about science by exploring the boundaries between science, culture, history and politics. Her 2017 book, “Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong,” was a critically-acclaimed account of how science failed women because of centuries of entrenched bias and exclusion. It has been translated into fourteen languages. Her most recent book, “Superior: The Return of Race Science,” was a finalist for the LA Times book prize and named a book of the year by Financial Times, Nature, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, among many others. She presents science shows for the BBC, including a two-part television series on eugenics in 2019. Her writing has appeared in New Scientist, The Sunday Times, National Geographic and Wired. She has won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of British Science Writers. In 2020 she was named one of the world’s top fifty thinkers by Prospect magazine. Angela has a master’s in engineering from the University of Oxford and was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She started her career as a features reporter in New Delhi and now lives in New York.
During the fellowship, Angela will focus on a nonfiction book tentatively titled “The Patriarchs: In Search of the Origins of Male Domination,” which combines firsthand narrative reporting with science, anthropology, archaeology, history and politics to explore the possible roots of patriarchy across the world, from the Neolithic onwards. It was commissioned by HarperCollins UK for publication in early 2023.