Mark Anthony Hoffman

Mark Anthony Hoffman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He studies the dynamics of cultural contention and the role that ideas play in the formation of groups and institutions using novel combinations of network analysis and text analysis. His dissertation analyzes the reading habits of New York and American elites after the Constitutional Convention to understand the concerns and interests of elite factions as they vied for political and economic power. He holds a BA from NYU Abu Dhabi.

• M.Phil. Sociology, Columbia University, 2018  
• M.A., Sociology, Columbia University, 2016
• B.A., Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2014

• Hoffman, Mark A. 2018. “The Materiality of Ideology: Cultural Consumption and Political Thought after the American Revolution.” Conditionally accepted at the American Journal of Sociology.

• Zerubavel, Noam, Mark A. Hoffman, Adam D. Reich, Kevin N. Ochsner, and Peter Bearman. 2018. “Neural precursors of future liking and affective reciprocity.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Hoffman, M. A., Cointet, J. P., Brandt, P., Key, N., & Bearman, P. (2017). "The (Protestant) Bible, the (printed) sermon, and the word (s): The semantic structure of the Conformist and Dissenting Bible, 1660–1780." Poetics.

• Hoffman, M. A., & Bearman, P. S. (2015). "Bringing anomie back in: exceptional events and excess suicide." Sociological Science, 2, 186-210.

• Social Network Analysis