Charles Jonathan Gomez

Biography

I’m a computational and mathematical sociologist studying inequality in global scientific knowledge production and diffusion. In my work, I use a variety of techniques, including natural language processing, social network analysis, survey experiments, simulations, and interviews, to study hierarchies, complexity, and diversity.  

My work has been featured in Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications, Research Policy, Social Networks, Journal of Informetrics, and Sociological Science. 

I’m an associate professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Sociology. I am also affiliated with the College of Information Science and the Applied Math Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP). I am the founder and director of the Global Knowledge Lab and Observatory (i.e., The Global Lab). 

I’m the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2024-2029) to study how international politics shapes the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its researchers. As a PI, I have received over a million dollars in grants.

Prior to Arizona, I was an assistant professor at the City University of New York, Queens College’s Department of Sociology. I was also a lecturer and data science postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information. 

I received my Ph.D. from Stanford, my master’s degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and Columbia, and my B.Sc.Eng. from Duke.

Degrees

• Ph.D. Sociology and Global Comparative Education
• Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
• Universalism and Global Science: How Scientists and Scientific Knowledge Traverse the World
• M.P.A. International and Global Affairs
• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• M.S. Applied Physics
• Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, Physics, Philosophy
• Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States

Awards

• SBS Early Career Award
• College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS), Spring 2024
• Mellon Fellow
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Spring 2023
• Acxiom Diversity Scholarship
• Acxiom, Inc., Winter 2015
• Computational Social Science Fellow
• Institute for Research in the Social Science (IRiSS) Center for Computational Social Science, Stanford University., Fall 2013
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
• Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Spring 2013 (Award Nominee)
• The Fred Zannon Graduate Fellowship
• Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Fall 2010
• Belfer Summer Internship Fund
• The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Summer 2009
• Belfer International and Global Affairs Fellow
• Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Fall 2008
• Public Service Fellowship
• The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Fall 2008
• GEM/Deloitte Fellowship
• The National GEM Consortim (GEM), Summer 2008 (Award Finalist)
• APAM Department Doctoral Fellowship
• The Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department, Columbia University, Fall 2005
• Intel Science Talent Search
• Intel, Spring 2001 (Award Nominee)