Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and Associate Director of Education for the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). 

Atanasoski’s interdisciplinary research has focused on feminism and AI, feminist and critical race approaches to science and technology studies, AI and the future of work, militarism, and human rights and humanitarianism. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013), co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019), and co-editor of Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution (2022) and Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen (2025). She serves on the editorial collective of the journal Critical Ethnic Studies, the flagship journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association. 

Atanasoski has been the recipient of numerous grants, including the Mellon Affirming Multivocal Humanities Grant, the University of California Multicampus Program Initiative Grant, the Luce Foundation Humanities Studio Grant, the University of California Humanities Research Institute Working Group Grant, and the Center for New Racial Studies Research Grant. Atanasoski has also held several fellowships and visiting professorships, including the Mercator Visiting Professorship of AI in the Human Context at the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn, the GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies Visiting Research Fellowship in Sweden, the UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Fellowship at UC Irvine, the Hellman Foundation Fellowship, and the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley. Previously, Atanasoski was Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the founding co-director of the Center for Racial Justice at The University of California at Santa Cruz.