Dustin Stoltz

Dustin Stoltz is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Cognitive Science at Lehigh University. His research focuses on cultural change, stratification, and the interplay between cognition and social structures. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Notre Dame (2020), an MSc in Sociology from Illinois State University (2014), and a BSc in Sociology from Montana State University (2010).

His work integrates computational methods with cultural and economic sociology, emphasizing tools like word embeddings and text analysis to study schemas, semantics, and social processes. Recent publications explore imaginative labor, grounded simulation theory, and computational frameworks for analyzing cultural texts. He teaches courses on computational text analysis, economic sociology, and research methods.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed. His research often intersects with cognitive science and computational social science, reflecting a commitment to interdisciplinary methodologies.