
Aidan Combs
Assistant Professor
Townshend Hall 106
1885 Neil Ave
Columbus, OH 43210
Areas of Expertise
- Social Psychology
- Cultural Sociology
- Quantitative Methods
- Computational Social Science
- Natural Language Processing
- Tool Building for Social Data Collection and Analysis
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology, Duke University, 2024
- M.A. in Sociology, Duke University, 2021
- B.S. in Engineering Physics & Mathematics, University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2018
My central interest is in the connotations of social labels, uncertainty around those connotations, and how connotations and uncertainty affect and are affected by discourse and interaction. My research is rooted in social psychology and cultural sociology and I tie it to other areas such as work and occupations, linguistics, politics, health, gender, and criminology. I use quantitative and computational methods, including natural language processing. I build open source software that facilitates research on identity processes in social interaction.