Barum Park
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

338 Uris Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cornell University, where I am an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Inequality, the Cornell Population Center, the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. I work on topics in political sociology, social networks, social mobility, and quantitative and computational methods.
My work has appeared in American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Politics, Social Forces, and Sociological Science, among others. My current projects examine political polarization in the US, with a focus on both political beliefs and ideology-based network segregation, using data from surveys and online forums. In a separate line of research, I use network approaches to study the structure of worker flows in labor markets. I have received my PhD in 2020 from New York University.
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Sep 2, 2025 | My paper “Equivalence and Clustering in Worker Flows: Stochastic Blockmodels for the Analysis of Mobility Tables” has been published in Sociological Methodology |
May 13, 2025 | I’ll present my work on the social bases of partisanship at the ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago |
May 12, 2025 | My paper (co-authored with Cristobal Young, Ben Cornwell, and Nan Feng) titled “Inequality and Social Ties: Evidence from 15 U.S. Data Sets” has been published in Sociological Science |
Mar 7, 2022 | I’ll be presenting my work on stochastic blockmodels for the analysis of mobility tables in the session “Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Studying Inequality” at the 2022 ASA Annual Meeting. |
Dec 5, 2021 | My paper “Segregated in Social Space: The Spatial Structure of Acquaintanceship Networks” has been published in Sociological Science. |