Timothy Shortell, Ph.D.
(he/him)
Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College
I am trained as a social psychologist. My research concerns belonging. I have conducted qualitative visual research about belonging for religious minorities in the US, France, and the UK. My current work focuses on social identities in public discourse. I am analyzing large corpus data on US evangelicals and identity dynamics in social media.
Contact
718-951-5000×1762
Website
Academic Interests
computational social psychology
visual sociology
rural sociology
data analytics and visualization
educational technology
Positions
expertise
I began my research career doing discourse analysis and wrote an application, SemioCode, to do the kind of content analysis I was using based on my dissertation. As a result, I developed teaching interests in statistical programming, large sample discourse analysis, and social network analysis. I am fluent in Perl, C, PHP, R, and Python, and have been introducing coding into my courses in social network analysis and quantitative methods.
Courses taught: Data & Society*, Quantitative Methods*, Introductory Statistics*, Advanced Statistics*, Social Networks*, Stratification, Sociology of Science & Technology, Sociology of Religion, Visual Sociology, Sociology of Sport, Introductory Sociology
* includes programming component
