Stanford Tech History Project

Dr. Ruth Starkman
Lecturer
Program in Writing and Rhetoric


Dr. Ruth Starkman is a full-stack programmer, bio-informatics specialist, writer, editor at Stanford, and a digital media manager with a talent for rendering difficult technical content accessible to a diverse global audience.

She is an experienced teacher of biomedical and tech ethics, with a solid background in the classics as well as contemporary debates on new technologies, privacy, and security.