Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, September 23rd, at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Guest Speaker Princeton sociologist Matthew Salganik.
Salganik is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is also affiliated with several of Princeton’s interdisciplinary research centers including the Princeton AI Lab, Princeton Precision Health, and Center for Information Technology Policy.
He is the author of the award-winning book Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, which has been translated into 5 languages. He holds a PhD from Columbia University in Sociology, an MA from Cornell University in Sociology and a BA in Mathematics from Emory University.
Salganik’s research has been published in journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, Sociological Methodology, and Journal of the American Statistical Association. His papers have won the Outstanding Article Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (twice) and the Outstanding Statistical Application Award from the American Statistical Association. He has received the Leo Goodman Mid-Career Award, the William Ogburn Mid-Career Award, and the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at Columbia University. He has also received a Commendation for Outstanding Teaching from Princeton’s School of Engineering & Applied Science.