John Levi Martin
Professor, Department of Sociology
John has researched the formal properties of belief systems and social structures, and has written books on how to think through theory, methods, and statistics.
Hyunku Kwon
PhD Student
Hyunku’s research interests include culture, politics, cognition, and networks. In particular, using computational, network, and statistical analysis, he investigates the formation and consequences of political polarization in the US at mass and elite levels.
Maurice Bokanga
PhD Student
Maurice studies collective action problems and is interested in how social structures and cultural processes shape people’s interests and dispositions to cooperate in social dilemmas.
Timothy Elder
PhD Student
Tim’s current research examines the contemporary practice of palliative medicine, and how healthcare providers render treatment recommendations to patients suffering life-limiting and terminal illnesses.
Alessandra Lembo
Postdoc, UChicago
Alessandra’s research is focused on the relationship between experience, the body, and meaning. She has looked at how differences in aesthetic biography yield variations in the meanings of cultural objects, and at how the body extracts meaning from experiences.
Austin Kozlowski
Postdoc, UChicago
Austin uses computational, statistical, and qualitative methods to investigate the relations between cultural rifts and political divisions in the contemporary United States.
Benjamin Rohr
Postdoc, University of Mannheim
Benjamin’s research examines the emergence of the first political parties in late eighteenth-century America. He applies statistical, network, and computational methods to investigate the relations between social networks, political careers, and party formation.
Shilin Jia
Postdoc, UChicago
Shilin studies public attention in the United States as reflected in Google’s search records.
Elizabeth Gray
Visiting Scholar, UC Santa Cruz
Lizzy’s current research centers on close relationships such as marriages and sexual partnerships. She looks at formal relationship structures in both quotidian and novel circumstances, asking how role regimes are accomplished and maintained, and how situational imperatives shape symbolic, negotiated orders.
CAN Alumni
Nick Judd
UL Research Institutes
Nick Judd uses quantitative, qualitative, and computational methodologies to study the social structure of political action.
Chad Borkenhagen
Meta
Chad studies culture, organizations, knowledge, and technology using qualitative and computational methods. His dissertation explores the social consequences of science’s growing influence in finance and the culinary arts.
Xiangyu Ma
Asst. Prof. NTU Singapore
Xiangyu (XY) uses of computational techniques to study moral phenomena in “cultural” markets, such as the literary arts, televisual arts, and music