Overview
Aidinoff is a postdoctoral research associate at the Digital Due Process Clinic at Cornell and at the Science, Technology, and Social Values at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He is an incoming assistant professor of history of science at Harvard University. He completed his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and B.A. from Harvard College.
A strong believer in the value of historical inquiry and science studies to both analyze and create policy, Aidinoff recently served as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor in the Biden-Harris White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he helped lead a team of 150 policymakers on key initiatives including the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, guidance to ensure federally funded research is publicly accessible, and the Cancer Moonshot. Previously, Aidinoff has served as a policy advisor to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama-Biden Administration and a strategic consultant with Blue Rose Analytics. He has taught at the University of Mississippi, Harvard College, the Rosedale Freedom Project, and MIT.
Research Focus
A historian of science, technology, and the state, Marc Aidinoff studies how the state has worked to know the citizenry. By investigating the information technologies that have made governments function, his scholarship explains the transformation of the twentieth-century U.S. welfare state from a localized system of uneven entitlements to a national regime of extraction. Beginning with the operational realities and aspirational promises of information technologies, Aidinoff works to historicize seemingly bedrock principles of U.S. public policy, including the liberal social contract.