Faculty

Learn more about the faculty members who will present at the Faculty Meet-and-Greet. Check out the full list of DACSS faculty here!

Burcu Baykurt

Dr. Baykurt is an Assistant Professor in the Communication department.
Research Interests:
social and cultural implications of digital technologies, with a particular focus on infrastructures, governance, and inequalities
 

Forrest Bowlick

Dr. Bowlick is a lecturer in the Geosciences department.
Research Interests:
how people learn GIS, geography education, geography in higher education, resources of the elements, and tropical glaciers.

Justin Gross

Dr. Gross is an Associate Professor in the Political Science department and core faculty member of the Computational Social Science Institute.
Research Interests:
U.S. ideologies, political communication in mass and social media, public opinion, and the intersection of identity and political beliefs



Anthony Paik

Dr. Paik is a Professor in the Sociology department, Chancellor's Leadership Fellow, and faculty associate of the Computational Social Science Institute.
Research Interests:
Social networks, organizations, economic sociology, social demography, sexuality

Doug Rice

Dr. Rice is an Associate Professor in the Political Science department and faculty associate of the Computational Social Science Institute.
Research Interests:
judicial policymaking in American politics, with a particular interest in the power of courts in the American policymaking context, and the implications of according policymaking power to judicial institutions in a democratic political system

Meredith Rolfe

Dr. Rolfe is an Associate Professor in the Political Science department, core faculty member of the Computational Social Science Institute, and director of the DACSS program.
Research Interests:
individual & organisational decision-making, media and public opinion, social networks, text analysis, and research methodology


Alexander Theodoridis

Dr. Theodoridis is an Associate Professor in the Political Science department.
Research Interests:
 American electoral politics, with a focus on political behavior and psychology, campaign effects and policy attitudes, survey methodology, experimental methods, design-based causal inference, implicit measures, and the intersection of formal theory and empirical analysis


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About Us

The UMass Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) is a new interdisciplinary academic program offering campus, online, and mixed-mode graduate courses, certificates, and M.S. degrees. DACSS students gain valuable hands-on experience with the tools and techniques used by CSS researchers and data analytics professionals. DACSS emphasizes "doing good with data" and attracts a higher proportion of women and underrepresented groups to the STEM field of social data science. Visit the DACSS website for more!

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