Past Events

Laura Nelson, Northeastern University, “Ask Not What Computation Can Do for Sociology...”

Wednesday, November 06, 2019, 11:30am - 01:00pm
Location: Davison Hall 128

 

Laura NelsonLaura Nelson is an assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University, a member of the NULab for Text, Maps, and Networks, an affiliate at the Network Science Institute, and on the editorial board of the journal Signs. Laura’s work makes a number of methodological interventions into the use of computational social science in sociology. Her substantive work focuses on social movements, particularly on the history of feminist social movements and on environmental movements. She received her Ph.D. at UC-Berkeley in 2014. Before starting her faculty position, she was a postdoctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley in Digital Humanities and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.