Chris Bail is a professor of sociology and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. His research examines political polarization, culture, social psychology, and social media using computational social science methods. He is the author of Breaking the Social Media Prism and Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream.
Chris Bail is a professor of sociology and public policy at Duke University, where he directs the Polarization Lab. His research examines political polarization, culture, social psychology, and social media using computational social science methods. He is the author of Breaking the Social Media Prism and Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream.
Career
Chris Bail studied at Harvard University (Ph.D. in Sociology) and Bowdoin College (B.A. in Government and French, summa cum laude).