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Heather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Together with a talented PhD candidate, I am analyzing a longitudinal database of articles published in the Washington Post newspaper from 1977 to 2024. Our primary goal is to understand how gender roles are portrayed in news media. To do this, we are using several natural-language-processing (NLP) techniques...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJerome Karabel - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Outlier Nation: The Roots and Consequences of American Exceptionalism The United States has always been exceptional – both for better and for worse. Its distinctive form of democratic capitalism has made the United States the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, the world's leading economy, and home to (by some...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesArmando Lara-Millan - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Sometimes ideas about changing market signals can actually precede big changes in the economy, other times they can be too late, and sometimes those ideas can even cause changes. This project tracks ideas about three broad ongoing disruptions to the current global economic order. The first is that since 2011...
Social SciencesArmando Lara-Millan - Professor, Sociology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project investigates the effects of market institutions on healthcare innovation and its consequences for inequality and wages. Specifically, the effect of the national medical code scheme on the ability of innovators to bring medical innovations (procedures, devices, diagnostics) to market. We will be assembling a large data set that...
Social SciencesKristin Luker - Professor, Law, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is part of Professor Luker’s forthcoming book on how contraception and abortion, once common parts of American family life, came to be regulated in the late nineteenth century, liberalized a century later, and became the focus of intense political controversy. The book examines how this history has shaped...
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