Active Research Projects
Research Interests
- Mathematical models of cultural transmission and social learning
- statistical methods for fitting transmission models to empirical data, both contemporary and archaeological
- coarse-graining and renormalization theory in linking micro and macro descriptions in the social sciences
- statistical physics as exemplar and framework for many-body problems in the social sciences
- hidden-variable models of cultural transmission dynamics
- simulation methods
- seriation and culture-historical methods and their link to cultural transmission models
- Darwinian evolutionary theory and models of cultural change
- game theory and realistic replicator/transmission models
- adaptive network models combining population structure, cultural transmission, and game theoretic interactions
