Jeremy Freese
Sociologist, Stanford University
I study how social differences become individual differences — in health, cognition, behavior, and life chances. Much of my work focuses on how knowledge and innovations get unevenly distributed, and what that means for inequality.
I’m increasingly interested in what large-scale AI means for social science and for society. I also care deeply about making research transparent and reproducible, and I’m involved in several large-scale research infrastructure projects.
Current projects
The most widely used survey for tracking American social attitudes and behaviors since 1972. I'm co-PI of the current incarnation, helping steer this essential public good into its next era.
We make it free for researchers to run survey experiments on a nationally representative sample. Submit a good idea, we field it — no grant required.
One of the longest-running population studies in the U.S., following Wisconsin high school graduates from 1957 onward. I helped integrate genomic data into the study.
I co-authored a book and several papers on making social research more credible. Part methodological activism, part trying to understand how credibility crises actually work.
Other
In 2008 I wrote an interactive fiction game called Violet, which won the Interactive Fiction Competition. It's about a grad student trying to write 1,000 words of their dissertation while surrounded by distractions. Play it