Daniel Karell

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Assistant Professor of Sociology
Education: 
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Washington, 2014
A.B. Comparative Study of Religion, Harvard University, 2003
Areas of Interest: 
Political and Cultural Sociology; Social movements; Artificial intelligence and computational methods
Address: 
493 College Street, Room 308
Email: 
daniel.karell@yale.edu

Daniel Karell is on sabbatical for the fall 2024 semester.

Daniel Karell’s current research examines the links between media, culture, and social change, particularly in the context of backlash and reactionary movements. His research also explores how to better measure and understand culture using digital data, computational techniques, and generative AI. His work has appeared in several academic journals, including American Sociological Review, Sociological Methodology, and Poetics, and has won awards from the American Sociological Association’s section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements and the Journal of Peace Research.

At Yale, Daniel is a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Foundations of Data Science and the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Daniel has also been a Weatherhead Scholar at Harvard University and a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University.