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  • Rana Khalid AlMutawa, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: rana.almutawa@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Oxford; MIA Columbia University

    Research Interests: UAE; GCC; Belonging; Urbanity; Community; Social Distinction

  • Bedoor AlShebli, Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: bedoor@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc in Computer Science from Kuwait University, Msc in Computer Science from University of Illinois ...

    Research Interests: Computational social science; Data science; Big data; Science of science

  • Wisam Alshaibi, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: wisam.alshaibi@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD UCLA; BA University of Colorado, Boulder

    Research Interests: Political violence; war; human rights; foreign policy; Iraq; elites; political sociology

  • Elisabeth Anderson, Associate Professor of Sociology, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: aea4@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Northwestern University (2013)

    Research Interests: Political Sociology, Comparative-historical Sociology, Social Theory

  • Georgi Derluguian, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: gd44@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Moscow State University; PhD State University of New York (Binghamton)

    Research Interests: Revolutions; Social change; Ethnography

  • Paula England, Dean of Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: pe22@nyu.edu
    Education: BA, Whitman College; MA, University of Chicago; PhD, University of Chicago

    Research Interests: Gender inequality; Families; Sexualities

  • Stephane Helleringer, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sh199@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Pennsylvania

    Research Interests: Demography; Epidemics; Mortality, and Causes of Deaths

  • Onoso Imoagene, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: oii1@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc Sociology University of Ibadan, Nigeria; MPhil Modern Society and Global Transformations Univers...

    Research Interests: International Migration; Race and Ethnicity

  • Sabino Kornrich, Associate Dean of Postdoctoral Programs and Research; Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sk8433@nyu.edu
    Education: BA UNC-Chapel Hill; MA University of Washington; PhD University of Washington

    Research Interests: Family; Inequality; Gender

  • Kangsan Lee, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: kl76@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Northwestern University

    Research Interests: Economic Sociology, Sociology of Art and Culture, Organizations and Entrepreneurship, Computational ...

  • Kinga Makovi, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: km2537@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Columbia University

    Research Interests: Social networks; Political sociology; Health; Online experiments; Computational methods

  • Mario Molina, Assistant Professor, Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mdmolina@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Universidad de los Andes (Chile); MA Universidad Católica de Chile; PhD Cornell University

    Research Interests: Economic Sociology; Organizations; Social Networks; Computational Social Science

  • John O’Brien, Associate Director of Faculty Development in the NYU Abu Dhabi Center for Faculty Advancement (CFA); Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: jho3@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Brown University; PhD UCLA

    Research Interests: Culture; Religion; Social identity

  • Berkay Özcan, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: berkay.ozcan@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), MSc Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)

    Research Interests: Social policy, demography, population economics

  • Zeynep Ozgen, Associate Program Head of Social Research and Public Policy; Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: zo2@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California Los Angeles; BA Bogazici University

    Research Interests: Political sociology; Social movements; Culture

  • Minsu Park, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: minsu.park@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Cornell University

    Research Interests: Culture; Consumption; Social Networks; Computational Social Science; Human-centered Data Science

  • Anju Mary Paul, Social Science Faculty Diversity Liaison; Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: anju.paul@nyu.edu
    Education: BBA Honors (First Class) National University of Singapore; MA New York University; PhD University of...

    Research Interests: Migration; Globalization; Gender and Labor; Domestic Work; Science Policy; Care Policy

  • Luca Maria Pesando, Program Head of Social Research and Public Policy; Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: lucamaria.pesando@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Bocconi University; MA Bocconi University; MA University of Pennsylvania; PhD University of Penns...

    Research Interests: Family; Poverty; Inequality; Demography; Education; Health; Youth; Child Development; Technology; B...

  • Blaine Robbins, Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: bgr3@nyu.edu
    Education: BS Pacific Lutheran University; PhD University of Washington

    Research Interests: Social Psychology; Political Sociology; Social Networks; Research Methods

  • Ben Rosche, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy and of Computational Social Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: benrosche@nyu.edu
    Education: Princeton University (Postdoc), Cornell University (PhD), Utrecht University (MSc), Mannheim Univers...

    Research Interests: Computational Social Science; Quantitative Methods; Stratification/Inequality; Social Networks; Fami...

  • Rana Tomaira, Research Scientist and Senior Lecturer of Social Research and Public Policy Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: rvt2@nyu.edu
    Education: University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D); University of California at Berkeley (Masters); Univers...

    Research Interests: Development and public policy; Comparative development practices; Development