Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 2011
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2017
  • Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2017
  • Scholar In Residence in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • APR 6, 2018

    Two From Duke Named Guggenheim Fellows

  • APR 26, 2017

    Sanford School of Public Policy

    Napoli, Bail Awarded Carnegie Fellowships

  • FEB 29, 2016

    C-SPAN

    Christopher Bail: Anti-Muslim discourse in America

  • JAN 28, 2016

    A Scholar's View on Anti-Muslim Rhetoric

  • DEC 8, 2015

    WBUR-Boston

    Chris Bail on Islamophobia: ISIS’s not-so-secret weapon

  • DEC 4, 2015

    The Washington Post

    Fringe Attacks on U.S. Muslims Become Mainstream

  • DEC 3, 2015

    The Washington Post

    Christopher Bail: How fringe attacks on American Muslims became mainstream
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  Awards & Honors

  • Guggenheim Fellow. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. 2018
  • Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Carnegie Foundation. 2017
  • Distinguished Book Award. Religion Section, American Sociological Association. 2016
  • Junior Theorist Award. Theory Section, American Sociological Association. 2016
  • Outstanding Book Award. Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action. 2015
  • Best Published Article Award. Communication and Information Technology Section, American Sociological Association. August 13, 2013
  • Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award. Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. August 13, 2013
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Big data
  • Cognition and culture
  • Communication and culture
  • Culture diffusion
  • Mass Media
  • Mass media and race relations
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Online social networks
  • Organizations
  • Social networks
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Europe (Continent) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Summer Institute in Computational Social Science awarded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2018 - 2020
  • Political Polarization and Social Media Echo Chambers: A Mixed-Method Field Experiment on Twitter awarded by  National Science Foundation 2018 - 2019
  • Summer Institute on Computational Social Science Russell Sage awarded by Russell Sage Foundation 2018
  • Social Media Echo Chambers and American Attitudes about Inequality, Race, and Immigration: A Field Experiment on Twitter awarded by Russell Sage Foundation 2017 - 2018
  • Civil Society Organizations, Social Media, and Public Attention awarded by  National Science Foundation 2015 - 2016
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Bail, C. Terrified: How anti-Muslim fringe organizations became mainstream. December 21, 2014.

  • Journal Articles

    • Bail, CA, Brown, TW, and Mann, M. "Channeling Hearts and Minds: Advocacy Organizations, Cognitive-Emotional Currents, and Public Conversation." American Sociological Review (October 12, 2017): 000312241773367-000312241773367.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "Taming Big Data." Sociological Methods & Research 46, no. 2 (March 2017): 189-217.  Full Text
    • McDonnell, TE, Bail, CA, and Tavory, I. "A Theory of Resonance." Sociological Theory 35, no. 1 (March 2017): 1-14.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "Combining natural language processing and network analysis to examine how advocacy organizations stimulate conversation on social media." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 42 (October 2016): 11823-11828.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "Cultural carrying capacity: Organ donation advocacy, discursive framing, and social media engagement." Social science & medicine (1982) 165 (September 2016): 280-288.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "Emotional Feedback and the Viral Spread of Social Media Messages About Autism Spectrum Disorders." American journal of public health 106, no. 7 (July 2016): 1173-1180.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "The Public Life of Secrets." Sociological Theory 33, no. 2 (June 2015): 97-124.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "The cultural environment: measuring culture with big data." Theory and Society 43, no. 3-4 (July 2014): 465-482.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "The Fringe Effect." American Sociological Review 77, no. 6 (December 2012): 855-879.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "The Configuration of Symbolic Boundaries against Immigrants in Europe." American Sociological Review 73, no. 1 (February 2008): 37-59.  Full Text
    • Bail, CA. "Combining Network Analysis and Natural Language Processing to Examine how Advocacy Organizations Stimulate Conversation on Social Media."
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • IDS 703: Data Scraping and Introduction to Text Analysis 2018
  • SOCIOL 110D: Sociological Inquiry 2018
  • SOCIOL 690S: Seminar in Selected Topics 2018
  • SOCIOL 367S: Computational Social Science: Tools to Collect & Analyze Human Behavior Using Data from the Internet 2017
  • SOCIOL 890: SPECIAL READINGS 2016
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. SSNAP: Scientific Social Network Analysis Project . August 2016 - May 2017  2016 - 2017
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  Service to the Profession

  • Advisory Council. NSF SBE. 2018  2018
  • Editor. Oxford University Press Series in Computational Social Science. 2018  2018
  • Book Review Editor. Social Forces. February 14, 2012 - February 3, 2015  2012 - 2015

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