Alexa Hagerty is an anthropologist researching human rights, science, and technology.

She holds a PhD from Stanford University and is an affiliate of the University of Cambridge Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Her research has received honors and funding from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the American Ethnological Society, among others. She has written for publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Wired,  Social Anthropology, and Palais de Tokyo.