Jessie Daniels

Jessie Daniels, PhD is Professor of Public Health, Sociology and Critical Psychology at the City University of New York (CUNY).

An internationally recognized expert on Internet manifestations of racism, Daniels is the author of two books about race and various forms of media, White Lies (Routledge, 1997) and Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), as well as dozens of peer-reviewed articles in journals such as New Media & Society, Gender & Society, American Journal of Public Health, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.

Daniels left a tenure-track job in 2000 for a position in the Internet industry, where she worked producing live online events for Fortune 500 companies. She came back into academia through a large, NIH-funded research project
involving young men leaving Rikers Island, New York City's largest jail. A paper based on that research won the Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year Award for 2011.

In 2013, Daniels received funding from the Ford Foundation to launch JustPublics@365, a project to connect scholarly communication and grassroots activism and make it available in the public sphere. Through that project, she curated an online writing series that has published several open access digital books, including one entitled Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era for the Public Good.

She is currently at work on two books with academic presses about being a public scholar in the digital era.

She writes regularly at RacismReview, a scholarly blog that she co-founded and has maintained for almost a decade.