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Austin Kozlowski

Postdoc, Department of Sociology

Austin uses computational, statistical, and qualitative methods to investigate the relations between cultural rifts and political divisions in the contemporary United States. He has earned both the 2021 Outstanding Article Publication Award and the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation in Progress Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section for Mathematical Sociology.

akozlo@uchicago.edu | CV | Personal Website

Research Interests

Culture, Theory, Politics, Computational Methods

Select Publications

Kozlowski, Austin C., Matt Taddy, and James A. Evans. 2019. “The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings.” American Sociological Review 84(5): 905-949.

Kozlowski, Austin C. and James P. Murphy. 2021. “Issue Alignment and Partisanship in the American Public: Revisiting the ‘Partisans without Constraint’ Thesis.” Social Science Research 94:102498.

Kozlowski, Austin C. 2022. “How Conservatives Lost Confidence in Science: The Role of Ideological Alignment in Political Polarization.” Social Forces 100(3):1415-1443.