Arnout van de Rijt
Professor of Sociology,
European University Institute (EUI)
Hello, welcome to my home page. Above you can find links to my cv and to an overview of my research lines, with citations, abstracts, pdfs and replication materials.
I am Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI). I hold a PhD in Sociology from Cornell University (2007). I serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science, an open-access journal for sociology. I am also President of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS), an organization that through its annual conference brings together scholars with a common interest in explaining big social patterns, like inequality, polarization, or societal conflict, by breaking them down into the individual actions and interactions that produce them. I am an elected member and serve on the council of the European Academy of Sociology (EAS), a fellowship with the aim to advance excellence in sociological scholarship.
My research spans the broad areas of social network analysis, computational social science, collective action and social stratification. I received the 2010 Lynton Freeman award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) for my early-career work on the dynamics of social networks. I also received the 2017 Raymond Boundon award for early career achievement from the EAS for my work on cumulative advantage and Matthew effects. I was fortunate to receive research funding through a number of grants from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Dutch Research Council (NWO), and the Dutch Department of Defense. My work has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, Management Science, PNAS and Science Advances, among other journals.