Sasha Goodman

Northeastern University

Phone: +1 (310) 892-1110

360 Huntington Avenue

e-mail: s.goodman@neu.edu

Boston, MA 02115-5000

www.sashagoodman.com

Ph.D. Macro Organizational Behavior, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 2011. Committee Chair: Michael T. Hannan.

M.A. Interdisciplinary Social Science, University of Chicago, 2005. Thesis Advisor: John F. Padgett.

B.A. Anthropological Linguistics, University of California in Los Angeles, 1998. Thesis Advisor: Alessandro Duranti.

Postdoc in David Lazer's computational social science lab at Northeastern University and affiliate at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, 2011-present.

Course Assistant for Sharique Hasan in "Managing Social Networks," Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2011.

Course Assistant for Hayagreeva Rao in "Human Resource Management: Hiring Talent For the Firm," Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2010.

Course Assistant for William P. Barnett in "The Global Context of Management," Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2008-9.

Administrator of a University-wide Survey for the Mimir Project, Stanford University, 2009.

Agent-based Simulation Developer for John F. Padgett, 2005-2006.

Research Assistant at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, 2004-2005.

Vice President of Internet Operations at Hsu Research in Anaheim, CA., 2003–2005.

Founder and President of Blue Whale Networks in Los Angeles, CA., 2002–2003.

Co-founder and Chief Web Officer of Talk Doctor, Inc. in Los Angeles, CA., 1998–2002.

"Niche Overlap and Damaging Actions: An Empirical Analysis of Informing in Hollywood" with Giacomo Negro. Submitted to Social Forces [request copy]. Abstact: Building on the sociological theory of the niche, we propose that greater overlap in the labor market niche will increase the likelihood that a market agent will initiate an action that damages another’s career. Damaging actions instead will be mitigated by prior collaborations. In an analysis of the 1950s US Congressional hearings on Communist infiltration in Hollywood, we examine the artists called to inform on the alleged Communist activities of other artists (they ‘named names’). The choice made by a testifier typically reduced the ability of their target to work. Taking into consideration the extent of membership in suspected Communist organizations, we analyze the niche overlap between individuals along multiple dimensions that confer value in the film industry. We find that greater niche overlap increases the odds of naming names, while coworker ties reduce them.

“Large-Scale Record Linkage Incorporating Ontology-Structured Fields” with Guy Lifshitz, Morgane Ciot, David Lazer and Derek Ruths. Submitted to the Conference on Information and Knowledge Mining, 2013. Abstract: The rise of massive, complex datasets has confronted established record linkage techniques with a number of challenges.  In this paper, we approach three distinct and increasingly ubiquitous issues: (1) properly leveraging fields whose values are drawn from an ontology, (2) avoiding the brute-force all-pairs comparison stage typically involved in record linkage, and (3) assessing the performance of a record linkage method without access to high-confidence, gold standard linked records that are representative of the identities present in the dataset.  As a case study, we apply our methods to the FEC Individual Campaign Contribution data, a dataset of 11 million contributions made by US citizens to political parties.  Our method demonstrates a dramatic improvement in speed and accuracy over existing record linkage methods applied to this dataset.

"Identifying the Latent Money Networks in US Politics," with David Lazer, Edoardo Airoldi and Hossein Azari, manuscript in preparation.

"Open Source Predictors of Electoral Success" with Drew Margolin, Brian Keegan, David Lazer, and Yu-ru Lin, near completion.

"Ideological Competition in Status Contests" with William Barnett and Daniel Stewart, manuscript in preparation. Abstract: We propose that status contests among individuals are shaped by ideological competition. When ideologies are in competition, status attainment by individuals is understood by participants as a ‘win’ or a ‘loss’ for the ideology with which the individual is associated. So the decision to defer to or disrespect another, and so to affirm or diminish the status of another, is shaped by competitions among ideologies. In particular, we think that adherents to a particular ideology will favor those of the same ideology, and oppose those of rival ideologies, in terms of demonstrations of deference and disrespect. We find evidence of such ideologically motivated action among a community of Linux programmers, and we see elaborate framing work in an attempt to resolve ambiguities in favor of contending ideologies. Our theory and findings suggest that studies of status attainment would benefit by considering the broader patterns of ideological competition that shape deference and disrespect, and by drawing on the ideas and mechanisms commonly used in the study of social movements.

"Tracing the Invisible Networks of US Politics" with David Lazer, Edoardo Airoldi and Hossein Azari at the XXXIII Sunbelt Social Network Conference in Hamburg, Germany, May 2013.

"Open Source Predictors of Electoral Success" with Drew Margolin, Brian Keegan, David Lazer, and Yu-ru Lin at the Midwest Political Social Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois, April 2013.

"Moneybombs" (covered by The Economist) and "The Forest of Advocacy" with Mauro Martino and the Lazer Lab.

"Tracing the Invisible Networks of US Politics" with Yu-ru Lin and David Lazer at the 5th Annual Political Networks Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, July 2012.

"Negative Ties in Niches and Networks: An Analysis of Informing during the Post-War Congressional Hearings in Hollywood" with Giacomo Negro at the Oxford University Workshop on Similarity, Oxford U.K., September 2011.

"Ideological Competition in Status Contests" with William Barnett and Daniel Stewart at the Nagymarous Organizational Ecology Conference, Helsinki Finland, June 2010.

"Were Brokers More Likely to Have Been Named as Communists During the Congressional Investigation of Post–War Hollywood?" at the Academy of Management, Anaheim CA., 2008 and the Sunbelt Social Network Conference, San Diego, CA., 2009.

"Agent-based Modeling of Organizational Form Emergence" with John Padgett at a seminar at Argonne National Laboratory, July 2007.

"Stratification Mapping" at the American Sociological Association Conference, Montreal Canada, 2006 and the University of Chicago Globalization Mini-Conference, Chicago, IL., 2005.

"Who Chats in a Chatroom?" with Valery Yakubovich at the Sunbelt XXV International Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, CA., 2005.

Stanford David S Tappan Fellowship, 2009-2011; Milton L Roberts Fellowship, 2008-2009; Lloyd H Weisel Fellowship, 2007-2008; Gustav Benkendorf Fellowship, 2006-2007.

University of Chicago Graduate Scholarship, 2004-2005.

UCLA Honors, cum laude and 'Highest Honors' on undergraduate thesis “Connecting on the Video-phone: the Greeting Ritual in an Emerging Medium,” 1998.

Reviewer at Management Science, Social Networks and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Member of the American Sociological Association, Academy of Management, Midwest Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association.

Expert in the R statistical programming language and versed in Java, Javascript, Python and Matlab.

Creator and maintainer of the popular rseek.org search engine, which has received over 3.4 million page views since 2007.