Jake K. Burchard

I am an incoming postdoc at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria. I received a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2025 and a BA in mathematics from Cornell University in 2017.

I am an economic and political sociologist broadly interested in the causes and consequences of inequality in post-industrial economies. I also have a strong interest in social theory and quantitative methodology, especially social network analysis.

My recent research can be divided into two streams. The first explores how financialization has divided and rearranged traditional class coalitions over the past several decades in the US and UK, in particular by unevenly growing the incomes of different kinds of financial employees and by inflating home prices. The second develops novel methods for social network analysis, including methods for predicting the evolution of network curvature and for measuring bridging, structural cohesion, and embeddedness in two-mode networks. Some of this work is published or forthcoming in outlets such as Socio-Economic Review, Social Networks, and The Journal of Mathematical Sociology.

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