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Todd L. Pittinsky

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Ph.D., Harvard University


I study the human side of technological change: how society, technology, and policy shape our individual and group experiences. My most recent book project is Science, Technology, & Society: Seminal Questions and Enduring Insights (Cambridge University Press, in press).

My current projects explore how AI is transforming healthcare jobs and the meaning of work, and why antisemitism thrives in online spaces.

My past research projects have been featured in The Economist and The Boston Globe and cited in Science, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition to scholarly writing, I enjoy writing for popular audiences (editorials, letters) and blogging (somewhat) regularly.

I am a faculty affiliate (by courtesy) with the Program on Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College. I have served as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center (2020-2022) and as a Faculty Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College (2019-2021). 

 

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Dr. Pittinsky earned a A.B. in psychology from Yale University, an M.A. in psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences , and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Business School. Prior to joining the Stony Brook faculty he was an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he served as Research Director of the Harvard Center for Public Leadership and the Principal Investigator of the Allophilia Project.

Office: 1417 Computer Science
Email: todd.pittinsky@stonybrook.edu

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Recent Articles

Taking Care with Caregiving Robots by Todd L. Pittinsky (IEEE Technology and Society, 2022)

Algorithms and Ethical Diversity: Developing a More Holistic View of Technology and Society by Todd L. Pittinsky (IEEE Technology and Society, 2020).

Books
STS Seminal Questions, Enduring Insights Pittinsky (Cambridge University Press, in progress)
The Caregiving Ambition Bear & Pittinsky (Oxford University Press)
Leaders Who Lust Kellerman & Pittinsky (Cambridge University Press)
Science, Technology, and Society Pittinsky (Cambridge University Press)
Us Plus Them Pittinsky (Harvard Business Press)
Coexistence in Israel Pittinsky et al. (Harvard Kennedy School)
Restoring Trust Kramer & Pittinsky, Eds.  (Oxford University Press)
Crossing the Divide Pittinsky, Ed. (Harvard Business Press)
Working Fathers Levine & Pittinsky (Addison-Wesley)