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Winston Berg is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. His research examines how political communities form and defend beliefs under uncertainty, particularly when traditional epistemic authorities lose influence. Berg focuses on the internal norms of sense-making within conspiracy theory communities, using ethnographic, computational, and interpretive methods. He also explores broader themes like pluralism, political epistemology, and democratic resilience in environments of factual disagreement.
Berg earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where he previously taught in the Social Sciences Core sequence "Self, Culture and Society." His work bridges empirical analysis with theoretical questions about trust, information organization, and meaning-making in polarized societies.
His current book project, The Infrastructure of Conspiracy Theories, shifts focus from why people believe "strange things" to how they create collective coherence through self-organized norms despite skepticism of external institutions.
