Barum Park
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
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. 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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| 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. |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Our project (with Byungkyu Lee and Mark Hoffman) titled “Collaborative Research: How online foci shape conversation” was selected to be funded by the National Science Foundation. |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Our project (with Cristobal Young and Ben Cornwell) titled “Inequality and the Distribution of Social Capital” received the Faculty Research Grant from the Center for the Study of Inequality, Cornell University. |
| Feb 28, 2021 | My co-authored paper “Flows and boundaries: a network approach to the study of mobility within the labor market” (with Siwei Cheng) has been published in American Journal of Sociology |