Ellen Ruppel Shell

Faculty Associate
Professor, and Co-Director, Graduate Program in Science Journalism
eshell@bu.edu
617-353-5973

Biography

Ellen Ruppel Shell is a professor in the department of journalism at Boston University, where she co-directs the Graduate Program in Science Journalism. She conducts research, teaches and writes on issues relating to science and economic policy and social justice.

Ruppel Shell is the author of hundreds of published articles, reviews and essays, and is a long-time contributing editor and correspondent for The Atlantic magazine. Her commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the L.A. Times and the Washington Post. She is author of four books translated into more than a dozen languages, The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change (Crown, October, 2018); Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (Penguin, 2009), The Hungry Gene (Grove, 2002), and A Child’s Place (Little Brown, 1992).

Ruppel Shell has been a Vannevar Bush Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Fellow in Occupational Health and Safety at Harvard University Medical School. She lectures widely on topics in science communication and public policy, as well as economic and social justice. She has served both as a Bush Fellow at MIT and as a Fellow in Occupational Health and Safety at Harvard University.