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Emily Erikson
Professor, Yale University, Department of Sociology and School of Management (by courtesy) and Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship Program
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What do you do with Data Science?
I use computational modeling, archival research, and data intensive methods to identify social processes that produce large-scale macro-social change, particularly focusing on economic development, institutional change, and democratization. Most recently I have been working on the relationship between network structure and complex social coordination tasks, such as the division of labor. I plan on developing this largely theoretical work further by applying it to empirical contexts using historical data. The goal here would be to better understand how complex social coordination problems have been solved by societies, how this relates to stratification, rank, inequality, and mobility, and organizational development and market specialization. Emily Erikson and Hirokazu Shirado. 2021. "Network Structure, Property, and the Division of Labor." American Sociological Review 86(1): 758-86. Erikson, Emily. 2021. Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, Middle Range Series. Erikson, Emily, ed. 2018. Events and Networks Symposium. Sociological Theory (with articles by Emily Erikson, Ron Breiger, Peter Bearman, and John Levi Martin). Vol 36, Issue 2, June, pp. 185-220.