Brandon Stewart

Curriculum Vitae

I am Associate Professor of Sociology  at Princeton University where I am also affiliated with the Politics Department, the Office of Population Researchthe Princeton Institute for Computational Science and EngineeringThe Center for Information Technology Policy and the Center for the Digital Humanities. I currently serve as an Associate Editor at Sociological Methods & Research handling text as data manuscripts. I develop new quantitative statistical methods for applications across computational social science.  I completed my PhD in Government at Harvard in 2015 where I had the good fortune of working with the interdisciplinary group at IQSS.  I also earned a master's degree in Statistics from Harvard in 2014. 

I am currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Political Analysis (with Dan Hopkins) and an Associate Editor at Sociological Methods & Research. In 2024, I received the 2024 Leo Goodman (Early Career) Award from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association and the 2023 Emerging Scholar Award from the Political Methodology Society.

I've worked in the fields of text as data, causal inference, and the combination of the two. My publications can be found here on my publications page or (probably more up to date on) Google Scholar. A few highlights

I teach undergraduate and graduate statistics as well as the occasional course on text analysis.  Course materials for these classes as well as from my summer methods camp and sociology statistics reading group are available on my teaching page

You can find preprints of my publications on this site and on Google Scholar. Replication data for most of my work is available on my Dataverse.