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James Evans is the Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology and Data Science at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as the Director of the Knowledge Lab. His research spans a variety of areas including collective system thinking, innovation, and the role of social and technical institutions in collective cognition. He investigates how new ideas and practices emerge, emphasizing the influence of modern science and technology on knowledge production across diverse domains such as news, law, and even machine learning. Evans is known for his work on creating novel observatories that leverage human understanding through crowd-sourcing, information extraction, and the use of distributed sensors. His research has received substantial support from organizations like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, with publications reaching esteemed journals such as Science, Nature, and the American Journal of Sociology. A graduate of Stanford University, he has held research positions at Harvard Business School and has experience in project-based education from his prior involvement in a private high school. He teaches courses on augmented intelligence and the history of modern science at the University of Chicago.
Department of Philosophy