My research interests are computational philology and natural language processing with an emphasis on historical languages, primarily Latin and Ancient Greek. I received my doctorate from Fordham University in Classics in 2016 and have been active since...
My work lies at the intersection between the humanities and the cognitive and behavioral sciences, combining laboratory experiments with field studies to explore the effects of ritual on the individual and group level. I study effects of music on inter...
I came to UBC with a joint BA in Anthropology and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Between my time at Wash U and UBC, I spent a year as the lab manager for Karen Wynn's Infant Cognition Center at Yale University. In my work, I am...
Kristin was a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, and spent the last few months of her degree visiting the Psychology department at UBC. In her research, she seeks to investigate the emergence and maintenance of broad belief systems such as...
My work asks how we as humans make our culture and how culture makes us human. How does our culture influence the way we face tough ethical decisions or deal with serious illness? How do we transform culture by the force of both our best efforts and our...
I study the social and cultural foundations of long-run economic development. I have specialized in measuring the evolution of cultural traits using text-data from 300 years of U.S. local newspapers.
