Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Admissions & Recruitment
About
I take a cognitive and computational approach to culture, viewing it as systems of interconnected elements including schemas, categories, and tastes. In addition to considering individual-level personal culture like political attitudes of survey respondents, my work examines societal-level public cultural representations like gender stereotypes found in large print media corpora. This perspective has deep parallels to computational models used in artificial intelligence. My recent work has thus increasingly explored AI models, which I approach as cultural measurement tools, theories of culture, and cultural actors. My work ranges from theoretical to methodological and empirical and appears in venues including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Annual Review of Sociology.
