Jack LaViolette (he/him)

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About

Jack LaViolette is a PhD student in the Columbia University Department of Sociology, a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow, and an Incite Graduate Fellow. Jack's research interests lie at the intersection of historical, cultural, and computational sociology, with a particular methodological interest in natural language processing. At Incite he has assisted the Measuring Liberal Arts initiative as well as the Trust Project Mellon Sawyer Seminar. With support from Incite, he additionally co-organized an eight-lecture series entitled "NLP for Social Science: From Language Models to Social Structures" in the spring of 2023.

Prior to joining Incite and Columbia, he was a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University. He holds an MSc with Distinction in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute and a BA with Honors in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.