Scholars@Duke
Christopher Andrew Bail

Christopher Andrew Bail CV

Professor of Sociology
Sociology
CV

Academic Honors

Guggenheim Fellow

International John Simon Guggenheim Foundation · 2018 More about this honor

Andrew Carnegie Fellow

International Carnegie Foundation · 2017

Junior Theorist Award

International Theory Section, American Sociological Association · 2016

Distinguished Book Award

International Religion Section, American Sociological Association · 2016

Outstanding Book Award

International Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action · 2015

Best Published Article Award

National Communication and Information Technology Section, American Sociological Association · August 13, 2013

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award

National Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association · August 13, 2013

News Items

Published May 23, 2025
Provost Launches AI Initiative and Steering Committee
Published January 14, 2025
Dorothy, We Don’t Use a Floppy Disk Anymore
Published October 29, 2024
Will AI Influence Human Behavior (and Vice Versa)?
Published October 24, 2023
Bridging Political Divides With Artificial Intelligence
Published August 21, 2023
How to Depolarize Political Toxicity on Social Media
Published January 27, 2023
How Did Political Polarization Begin, and Where Does it End?
Published January 19, 2023
Resetting America’s Partisan Digital Divide
Published November 21, 2022
Duke Scholars Using Internal Seed Grants to Build Foundation for Collaborative Research
Published May 25, 2021
April Books: Christopher Bail "Breaking the Social Media Prism"
Published March 31, 2021
Don’t Like Online Outrage? Look Inward
Published March 24, 2021
Fighting Online Extremism
Published October 23, 2020
Duke in the News: Political Polarization, COVID Evolution, and a New Human Organ
Published June 21, 2018
Information Initiative at Duke
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Comes to Duke
Published April 6, 2018
Two From Duke Named Guggenheim Fellows
Published April 26, 2017
Sanford School of Public Policy
Napoli, Bail Awarded Carnegie Fellowships
Published February 29, 2016
C-SPAN
Christopher Bail: Anti-Muslim discourse in America
Published January 28, 2016
A Scholar's View on Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
Published December 8, 2015
WBUR-Boston
Chris Bail on Islamophobia: ISIS’s not-so-secret weapon
Published December 4, 2015
The Washington Post
Fringe Attacks on U.S. Muslims Become Mainstream
Published December 3, 2015
The Washington Post
Christopher Bail: How fringe attacks on American Muslims became mainstream