Neal Caren
Professor Of Sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNeal Caren is a sociologist and professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with 13 years of faculty experience and a career in higher education leadership spanning roles from assistant professor to department chair. He directs undergraduate and first-year programs while editing the journal Mobilization, blending scholarly research, curriculum design, and academic publishing. Trained at NYU (Ph.D., M.A.) and Columbia (B.A.), he has a sustained focus on social and economic justice, graduate training, and health policy from an early Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship. Neal’s work bridges rigorous sociological research and practical program-building on campus, often shaping student pathways and departmental priorities. Based in Chapel Hill, he combines long-term institutional knowledge with active engagement in scholarly communication, a profile that signals both administrative savvy and continued research leadership.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Sociology, Ph.D., Sociology at New York UniversityB.A., Sociology, B.A., Sociology at Columbia University
Github Skills (14)
computational-social-science8
jupyter-notebook8
science7
python7
data-mining7
ipython7
machine-learning6
data-analysis5
data-science5
kubernetes3
mallet2
jekyll2
big-data2
jupyter1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nealcaren/UiOBigData
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nealcaren/nealcaren.github.io
Jun 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 1 year 2 months
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