Brandon Stewart

Brandon Stewart is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, affiliated with the Department of Politics, Office of Population Research, and multiple interdisciplinary institutes. He holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University (2015) and a Master's in Statistics (2014). His research focuses on developing quantitative methods for social science applications, including automated text analysis and causal inference. Recent projects analyze propaganda in China's media and apply text-based methods to education, human trafficking, and international relations.

His work has been published in top journals like American Journal of Political Science and Political Analysis. Awards include the 2024 Leo Goodman Award and Gosnell Prize. He advises students like Ian Lundberg (UCLA) and Rebecca Johnson (Georgetown), and leads initiatives in computational social science through affiliations with institutes like Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. His labs and teams explore AI ethics, recommendation systems, and language models' societal impacts.