Assistant Professor Director of Graduate Admissions and 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 methodological to empirical to theoretical and appears in venues including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and (forthcoming) the Annual Review of Sociology.
