Anna Skarpelis is Assistant Professor and Richard Lachmann Chair of Sociology at CUNY Queens College in New York. She is a cultural and comparative-historical sociologist utilizing qualitative and computational methods in her research on race, social classification, violence, and artificial intelligence. She is especially interested in questions of representation and classification, and has most recently been working on what happens to selfhood in an age of synthetic data and simulation. She received her Ph.D. from New York University and held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the Social Science Center Berlin (WZB). Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, and other peer-reviewed venues; her book in progress is titled “Racial Vision: Failed Projects of Human Difference.” She is the recipient of the 2024 Roger V. Gould Prize.