Kinga Makovi

Assistant Professor - Social Science Division NYU Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Biography

Kinga Makovi is an assistant professor in the Social Science Division at NYU Abu Dhabi focused on social research and public policy. She received her PhD in sociology from Columbia University, and also holds an MSc in mathematical economics from Corvinus University of Budapest. She has been visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business, and at the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Her work focuses on behavioral convergence through shared cognitive templates used to navigate social situations, as well as social networks through which information is diffused and peer-influence is exerted. In her dissertation, she studied the social structural drivers of petitioning for the abolition of the slave trade in Britain in the early 1800s of Britain using archival records, computational techniques, and causal inference. Her work appeared in Social Forces, and Sociological Science.