People
Faculty
Julien Boelaert
Julien Boelaert is an Assistant professor in Political Science at Lille University/CERAPS (currently on sabbatical). He has been experimenting with, and thinking about, machine learning for social sciences since 2010 and is currently working on mass-media content analysis with a text-as-data approach.
Jean-Philippe Cointet
Professor of Sociology and director of the Open Institute for Digital Transformations in Sciences Po, Jean-Philippe specializes in the development of innovative methods for the social sciences and humanities. His main fields of interest are computational linguistics and network science. He has long worked on the mapping of research communities through the analysis of bibliometric data, and later on the dynamics of scientific knowledge circulation and its contestation in social media platforms. More recently, he has been analyzing the structure of the digital public space through various empirical case studies on misinformation, polarization or collective mobilization.
Etienne Ollion
Étienne Ollion is a CNRS research fellow and Professor of Sociology at École Polytechnique. His research focuses on politics, and he integrates digital data to more classic data sources and methods.
Émilien Schultz
Émilien is a research engineer at CREST, committed to the development of computational social science practices and data analysis. His main interests include science studies, scientific software, Python, and connecting social and computer science
Hesu Yoon
Hesu is an assistant professor at the ENSAE. Her research investigates how places are perceived and evaluated in ways that reinforce or shift inequalities by race and class. She takes various methodological approaches to answer research questions, including online survey experiments, digital trace data, and interviews.Speakers
Bart Bonikowski
Bart Bonikowski is Associate Professor of Sociology and Politics at New York University. Using relational survey methods, computational text analysis, and experimental research, his work applies insights from cultural sociology to the study of politics in the United States and Europe, with a particular focus on nationalism, populism, and radical-right parties.
Eunji Kim
Eunji Kim is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Perceptions of collectivities—impersonal entities ranging from a nation to a particular social group—are one of the central forces that shape politics. Her research studies the primary source that cultivates the perceptions of “others” who are outside the realm of citizens’ personal experiences.
Jan G. Voelkel
Jan G. Voelkel is an incoming Assistant Professor at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. Currently, Jan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University. Jan's research examines under which conditions micro-level preferences for more equality and unity influence macro-level outcomes, such as elections. For example, Jan’s research has examined under what conditions Americans (i) refuse undemocratic elites, (ii) support women candidates for president, and (iii) back economically progressive politicians. In his dissertation work, Jan led the Strengthening Democracy Challenge, a megastudy that tested 25 crowdsourced experimental treatments for reducing anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity.
Daniel Silver
Daniel Silver is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His research areas are social theory, cities, culture, and cultural policy. His current research examines the role of arts and culture in city politics, economics, and residential patterns; the evolution of urban ideas, forms, and practices, the enduring political orders of cities; the use of diagrams and figures in social theory; and international variations in how sociological theory is taught.
Noga Keidar
Noga Keidar is an urban sociologist studying cities, ideas and their dialectic relations. In her research, she examines what it means for a messy and complex entity like a city to adopt a new idea, and how the circulation of policy creates a global space of ideas. Her previous work has concentrated on the Creative City and Placemaking—policy frameworks often addressing the political and economic upheavals post-industrialization brings. Her current research examines how ordinary cities develop climate adaptation plans that address their specific needs within a highly normative and hierarchical global space dominated by leading cities and philanthropic organizations.
Austin van Loon
Austin van Loon is an Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His primary stream of research investigates the dynamic relationship between culture and identity in the context of intergroup conflict. He explores critical questions such as how do genuine differences in worldviews contribute to conflict between groups? How does conflict influence group perceptions of the world? And how can we structure intergroup interactions to foster cooperative behavior and shared understanding? In his secondary research stream, Professor van Loon advances the application of artificial intelligence in the social sciences. He focuses on how scientists can leverage methods like machine learning and natural language processing to rigorously develop and test social theory. Professor van Loon earned his PhD in sociology from Stanford University. He also holds a BS in sociology and a BA in psychology from the University of Iowa.
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Teaching Assistants
Emma Bonutti D'Agostini
Emma Bonutti D’Agostini is a PhD candidate in Sociology at CREST (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and médialab (Sciences Po Paris). Before that, she completed a Bachelor in Political Sciences at University of Pisa and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy) and a Master in Sociology at Sciences Po Paris. Her current research leverages computational methods and advanced NLP to study the representations made of far-right politicians and messages in the French journalistic spheres.
Annina Claesson
Annina is a PhD candidate in sociology at CREST and Sciences Po Médialab. She researches practices in political communication among parliamentarians and journalists, with a particular interest in social media dynamics.