Dr. Ana Macanovic

Assistant Professor
Sociology
a.macanovic@uu.nl

My areas of interest include economic sociology, innovation, inequalities, and trust and cooperation. I am interested in how structural inequalities arise in societies and how they can be addressed. I am also intrigued by the processes of individual and group-level innovation and the evolution of norms and cultural practices. Finally, I study how individuals from diverse social backgrounds come to trust each other and work together effectively, developing and changing shared social norms and institutions along the way.

I explore these topics with the help of computational methods, including automatic text analysis, machine learning, network analysis, and agent-based modelling. Broadly, I am interested in the study of societies as complex systems.