Christine Rosen

Christine Rosen is a senior editor of The New Atlantis, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, and a columnist for Commentary magazine. She is the author, most recently, of The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024), which explores the many ways our engagement with technology has transformed our behavior and our understanding of what it means to be human

Ms. Rosen is the chair of the Colloquy on Knowledge, Technology & Culture at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia. She is a former Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and was for many years a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Her past books have included Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement, a history of the ethical and religious debates surrounding the eugenics movement in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2004) and My Fundamentalist Education, the story of a Christian fundamentalist school in Florida (PublicAffairs, 2005).

Ms. Rosen’s essays and reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, M.I.T. Technology Review, The Hedgehog Review, The American Historical Review, Democracy Journal, Prospect, and The New England Journal of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Emory University. She lives with her children in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Rosen can be reached at crosen@thenewatlantis.com.