Brooks Ambrose
Continuing Lecturer
Focus
Sociology of knowledge, history of scholarship, social network analysis, computational text analysis, R programming.
Biography
Current Research
Brooks focuses on the measurement of boundaries in social and cultural organizations using relational data from the arts and sciences and from the entertainment industry. His dissertation applies network community detection and survival analysis methods to a century's worth of citation data to study the stratification and longevity of research fields in the social sciences in the 20th century. His interests include classical sociological theory and social science pedagogy.
Education
Ph.D. – UCLA Department of Sociology
B.A. – Haverford College