Dr. Benjamin Hill

Associate Professor

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Biography

Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist and technologist who works to understand the social dynamics that shape online communities. His research focuses on communities engaged in peer production and digital public goods, such as Wikipedia and Linux. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and a founding member of the Community Data Science Collective. He also serves as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Over the past two decades, he has been an activist, developer, contributor, and leader in the free and open source software movement and the free culture movement, being a part of initiatives such as Debian, Ubuntu, and various Wikimedia projects.

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Requirements for Harvard University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Total
Required:80
IELTS
Overall
Required:6.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field
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Specialization Notes

Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).