Rate My Professor Kinga Makovi

Makovi's scholarship has appeared in prestigious outlets including Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Sociological Science, Social Science History, and PLoS ONE. Select publications include 'Trust within human-machine collectives depends on the perceived consensus about cooperative norms' (Nature Communications, 2023), 'The effects of ideological value framing and symbolic racism on pro-environmental behavior' (Scientific Reports, 2021), 'The signatures of social structure: Petitioning for the abolition of the slave trade in Manchester' (Social Science History, 2019; recipient of the Founders Prize for the best article in Volume 43), 'The course of law: State intervention in Southern lynch mob violence 1882–1930' (Sociological Science, 2016), and 'Web of lies: a tool for determining the limits of verification in preventing the spread of false information on networks' (Scientific Reports, 2021). Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, NYU Abu Dhabi, and the McCourt Foundation. Makovi has received the Award for Teaching Excellence from NYU Abu Dhabi (2022), De Karman Fellowship (2015), Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellowship (2010–2015), and Alex Inkeles Award for Outstanding Graduate Students (2013). She leads the Research Group in Network Science, has convened multiple CITIES symposia (2019–2024), organized workshops on network science and computational social science, and serves as editor for special issues in Frontiers in Big Data while reviewing for top journals such as American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review.