Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A leading expert in humans' relationship with computational objects, she continues to revolutionize our understanding of the role of technology, social networking, and sociable robotics on psychology and culture. Turkle is the New York Times bestselling author of Alone Together, Reclaiming Conversation, and The Empathy Diaries , which was a New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2021 and awarded Best Memoir by the National Jewish Book Awards. Turkle has been profiled or interviewed in such publications as The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Guardian , and Scientific American , and she has appeared on Nightline , The Today Show , Good Morning America , Frontline , Dateline , 20/20 , The Colbert Report , and many others. Professor Turkle is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, the Harvard Centennial Medal, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist.