Andrew Patrick Nelson

Andrew Patrick Nelson is a Research Fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University, specializing in linguistics and computational methods to study language ideology in historical contexts.

• Education: Master’s degree in East Asian Regional Studies from Columbia University

His research integrates semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and computational linguistics to examine political neologisms in Japanese diaspora newspapers and their ideological implications. He focuses on late 19th and early 20th century Japan, with comparative analysis of French, German, and English sources.

Scientific awards include Stanford’s Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow (2021-22) and Senior Graduate Research Fellow (2022-23) with the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.