Tina Law

Tina Law is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She studies inequality, race and ethnicity, democracy, and AI and specializes in computational methods. She uses and develops AI, natural language processing, and network methods and techniques to analyze text and images in order to address questions about social and political inequality in the U.S. She is particularly interested in leveraging computational methods and techniques to understand how processes of political meaning-making are shaped by and alter socio-economic inequality.

She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University, and she was previously a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at the City University of New York Graduate Center and a Democracy Visiting Fellow with the Ash Center on Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.