Elizabeth Bruch

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Associate Professor, University of Michigan
External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute

Elizabeth Bruch is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, a core faculty member in the Center for Population Studies at the Institute for Social Research, and the Associate Director at Michigan’s Institute for Data and AI in Society. She is also on the External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute where she serves on their Science Steering Committee.

Bruch’s research has been published in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Demography. Her papers have won Outstanding Article Awards from the Mathematical, Community & Urban, and Rationality & Society sections of the American Sociological Sociological Association; as well as the Merton Prize from the International Association of Analytical Sociologists. Her innovations in choice modeling received the 2021 Innovation Prize from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association. Bruch has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

Recent Happenings

  • After two years, it’s finally here. Revel is piloting with UM students this fall (9/24)
  • Excited to give a keynote at the IC2S2 conference in Philadelphia (7/24)
  • Finished our last GenAI tutorial of the semester, all material available online (5/24)
  • Nice Guardian article describing our dating app launching this fall (5/24)
  • Interview on NPR: game theory tells us women should make the first move (5/24)
  • Presented new work on the architecture of status systems in Durham (5/24)
  • Talked about ‘Building Blocks for the Social Sciences’ at SFI Symposium (4/24)
  • Received contract from Princeton University Press for “Date Like a Local” (2/24)