Michael Macy
{{Short description|Sociologist}}
Michael W. Macy is a Cornell University sociologist who is the Director of the Social Dynamics Laboratory and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology.{{cite web |title=Michael Macy |url=https://sociology.cornell.edu/michael-macy |website=Cornell University Sociology |access-date=24 December 2022}} In his profile in the Information Sciences department, it says he is the Goldwin Smith of Arts and Sciences in Sociology.{{cite web |title=Michael Macy |url=https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/macy |website=Cornell University Information Sciences |access-date=24 December 2022}}
Biography
Macy was born in 1948 in Clarksville, Tennessee.{{cite web |title=Macy, M.W. |url=https://nias.knaw.nl/fellow/macy-m-w/ |website=NIAS |access-date=24 December 2022}}
He attended Harvard University for his B.A. and Ph.D. and his M.A. was from Stanford University. He was a fellow at the N.I.A.S. (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study) from February to June 2002 and at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 2011 until 2012.{{cite web |title=Michael Macy |url=https://casbs.stanford.edu/people/michael-macy |website=Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences |access-date=24 December 2022}}
Research
Using a National Science Foundation grant, he and his team have “used computational models, online laboratory experiments, and digital traces of device-mediated interaction to explore familiar but enigmatic social patterns.” he has also focused on political polarization. He has published in Science, American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review.
Ph.D. Students
Students he has supervised include Damon Centola and Arnout van de Rijt (both in sociology) and in, information sciences, Sterling Williams-Ceci.{{cite web |title=Sterling Williams-Ceci |url=https://sterlcwc.github.io/ |website=GitHub |access-date=24 December 2022}}
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External links
- [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7OW6weoAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
- [https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+macy+cornell+university&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:f06392d6,vid:nr9ZH_m1CeE Social Wormholes and Parallel Worlds]
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Category:People from Clarksville, Tennessee
Category:American sociologists
Category:Harvard College alumni
Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni