zackary okun dunivin

Howdy! I'm a computational methodologist, cultural sociologist, and complexity scholar. Most of my research uses large, scraped, and crowdsourced data to examine culture and cultural change. What most excites me about culture is how much of human experience it touches. My work variously intersects with political communication, media studies, race and gender studies, digital humanities, social movements, decision science, and organizational behavior. In the coming years, I'll have an eye toward research into how AI systems are changing society, particularly with regard to organizations and work.

I have a PhD in Complex Systems (Informatics) and Sociology from Indiana University. My undergraduate studies at Reed College were in Evolutionary and Molecular Biology.

Currently I'm at UC Davis as a post-doctoral scholar working on organizational communication and institutional studies. Recently I've been using LLMs to do social science and examining them as sociocultural objects.

I'm on the job market for 2025! If you know of openings that fit my profile, please let me know.