Nikita Shepard

Nikita Shepard

Ph.D. candidate, History, Columbia University

Nikita Shepard (they/them) is a PhD student in history at Columbia, exploring gender and sexuality, LGBTQ communities, social movements, data and surveillance, and radical politics in the twentieth century United States and beyond. They serve as the graduate intern for the Lehman Center for American History and an affiliate of the Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities, and have worked for the Center for Spatial Research and the Columbia Oral History Archives. They founded the "Data, Algorithms, and Social Justice" working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference in 2019, and hold a position as an Oral History Fellow for the Digital Ethics and Governance working group at the Jain Family Institute.

Working Group Affiliation

Data Algorithms and Social Justice, Graduate Director