Aniya Richardson

Sophia Goodfriend is an anthropologist and post-doctoral fellow at the Belfer Center’s Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research examines how big-data and machine learning have transformed what it means to wage and live with war in Israel and Palestine. Her reporting has appeared in London Review of Books, Foreign Policy, 972 Magazine, the Baffler, and Jewish Currents. Her peer-reviewed scholarly writing has been published in journals across Anthropology and Middle East studies. She is currently working on two books about the impact of emerging technology on military conflict in the Middle East.