Anna Skarpelis

Anna Skarpelis is an Assistant Professor holding the Richard Lachmann Chair of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) since September 2023. Previously, she served as a digitalization postdoctoral fellow in the Migration, Integration, Transnationalization department at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Her work bridges cultural and comparative-historical sociology with computational methods, focusing on race, social classification, and violence. She has published in prominent journals including the American Journal of Sociology and Qualitative Sociology.

Her research interests include artificial intelligence, computer vision, simulation, and human nature, with a focus on epistemological challenges in classification systems. She has pioneered the use of virtual reality as a methodology for studying racial perception. Current projects explore the pre-histories of facial recognition technology and its societal implications.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided text. She has not yet listed advised students or grants, though her postdoctoral work at WZB indicates active research funding. While no specific lab affiliations are named, her experimental approaches suggest collaboration with interdisciplinary teams in digital sociology and behavioral science.