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Christopher Andrew Bail
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Professor of Sociology
Sociology
christopher.bail@duke.edu
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Guggenheim Fellow
International
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
· 2018
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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
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
National
Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
· August 13, 2013
Best Published Article Award
National
Communication and Information Technology Section, American Sociological Association
· August 13, 2013
In the News
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
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Comes to Duke
Published April 6, 2018
Two From Duke Named Guggenheim Fellows
Published April 26, 2017
Napoli, Bail Awarded Carnegie Fellowships
Published February 29, 2016
Christopher Bail: Anti-Muslim discourse in America
Published January 28, 2016
A Scholar's View on Anti-Muslim Rhetoric
Published December 8, 2015
Chris Bail on Islamophobia: ISIS’s not-so-secret weapon
Published December 4, 2015
Fringe Attacks on U.S. Muslims Become Mainstream
Published December 3, 2015
Christopher Bail: How fringe attacks on American Muslims became mainstream