research
Research interests, labs, advisors, and miscellaneous visualizations.
The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.
— Foucault, 1972, p. 23
Research Interests
- Cognitive science and cultural evolution of narratives, religion, and other cognitive artifacts
- How stories and cultural forms shape meaning, experience, and identity over time.
- Identity, cooperation, and collective behavior
- Individual and collective identity formation, including identity fusion, and their roles in coordination, collaboration, and social dynamics.
- Computational approaches to culture and language
- Network science, NLP/NLU, ML/AI, information theory, and digital humanities methods for large-scale cultural analysis and comparative phenomenology.
Labs
- ESOTERIC Lab (PI: Jacob G. Foster; Indiana University Bloomington)
- Soda Lab (PI: Jisun An; Indiana University Bloomington)
- Experimental Humanities Lab (PI: Fritz Breithaupt; University of Pennsylvania)
- Y Lab (PI: Yong-Yeol “YY” Ahn; University of Virginia)
- The DAN Research Group (PI: Anthony (Tony) Beavers; Indiana University Bloomington)
Centers
- The Center for Possible Minds (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) (Indiana University Bloomington)
Advisors
- Jacob G. Foster (Indiana University & Santa Fe Institute)
- Jisun An (Indiana University)
Past Labs
- UVU Source Code Lab (PI: Charles D. Knutson; Utah Valley University)
