Oscar Stuhler
Assistant Professor of Sociology
- oms@northwestern.edu
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Area(s) of Interest
Sociology of culture, political sociology, discourse analysis, natural language processing, social networks, computational social science
Biography
Oscar Stuhler studies discourse with computational methods. At the core of his research agenda is an effort to develop methods and theory for analyzing textual representations of social structures. In this research program, he makes central concepts in the analysis of social structure — among them roles, agency, and relationships — measurable in textual data. In this vein, he has studied, for instance, how agency is distributed between male and female characters in fiction, how German news portrays refugees, or how U.S. media construct climate change futures.
Selected Publications
Oscar Stuhler, Iddo Tavory, Robin Wagner-Pacifici (2026). Time and Climate Change: U.S. Media Representations of Climate Actions, Horizons, and Events (2000-2021). American Sociological Review.
Oscar Stuhler, Cat Dang Ton, Etienne Ollion (2025). From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models. Sociological Methods & Research.
Oscar Stuhler (2025). The cultural construction of personal relationships. Social Networks.
Oscar Stuhler (2024). The Gender Agency Gap in Fiction Writing (1850 to 2010).” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Oscar Stuhler (2022). Who Does What To Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry. Sociological Methods & Research.