Dr. Andrei Boutyline

Biography

Andrei Boutyline is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. His research interests center around a cognitive computational approach to culture, viewing systems as interconnected elements that include schemas, categories, and tastes. He investigates individual-level personal culture, such as political attitudes among survey respondents, and societal-level public cultural representations, including gender stereotypes across large media corpora. His recent work has increasingly explored the parallels between computational models used in artificial intelligence and cultural measurement tools, theories, and cultural actors. Boutyline's work spans theoretical, methodological, and empirical analysis, appearing in prestigious journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Annual Review of Sociology.

Research Interests