Ethan Fosse

Ethan Fosse, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Data Sciences Institute, and Director of the Social Change Lab at the University of Toronto, received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. Before joining the University of Toronto, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Politics, where he developed and led a series of open-source statistical programming workshops. At the University of Toronto, Professor Fosse co-created the Certificate in Computational Social Science at UTSC and currently teaches courses on quantitative methods, social change, and computational social science.

Professor Fosse's research focuses on applying innovative computational and quantitative methods to understand social change. He is currently engaged in three interrelated projects: first, creating a new set of techniques for cohort analysis, with wide application in sociology and related fields; second, applying and extending these methods to various substantive areas, from verbal ability to political party identification to social mobility; finally, developing and applying novel computational social science approaches, such as sociospatial temporal clustering, decomposition analysis, and text-based regression models. Professor Fosse's research has been published in numerous volumes and journals, with recent work appearing in Demography, Sociological Science, and the Annual Review of Sociology.

Note: I am currently accepting graduate students for supervision and research positions. If you are interested, please email me at: ethan.fosse@utoronto.ca