Prof. Angela D Saini

Assistant Professor of Science Writing

Primary DLC

Comparative Media Studies/Writing

MIT Room: 14E-303

Research Summary

Angela Saini joins the Comparative Media Studies/Writing program as an assistant professor. A science journalist and author, she presents television and radio documentaries for the BBC and her writing has appeared in National Geographic, Wired, Science, and Foreign Policy. She has published four books, which have together been translated into 18 languages. Her bestselling 2019 book, “Superior: The Return of Race Science,” was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, and her latest, “The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality,” was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. She has an MEng from the University of Oxford, and was made an honorary fellow of her alma mater, Keble College, in 2023.

Recent Work