Philipp Brandt

bio

Philipp Brandt studies emerging professions, expert work and their effects in historical, economic and technological settings. His main project analyzes the construction of a professional “data scientist” identity in New York City’s tech community.
In a new project, he shifts focus to the dying profession of yellow cab drivers. Philipp combines computational methods with qualitative field observations to address these issues.

His personal research website

publications

• Brandt, P. and Timmermans, S. (2021) Abductive logic of inquiry for quantitative research in the digital age. Sociological Science. 8, pp. 191-210. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03266002
• Dorschel, R. and Brandt, P. (2021) Professionalization via ambiguity: the discursive construction of data scientists in higher education and the labor market. Zeitschrift für https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03405863
• Brandt, P., Schrank, A and Whitford, J. (2018) Brokerage and Boots on the Ground: Complements or Substitutes in the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships? Economic Development Quarterly, 32(4), pp. 288-299. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03129804
• Hoffman, M. A., Cointet, J. P., Brandt, P., Key, N., & Bearman, P. (2018) The (Protestant) Bible, the (printed) sermon, and the word(s): The semantic structure of the Conformist and Dissenting Bible, 1660–1780. Poetics. 68, pp. 89-103. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02005573
• Brandt, P. and Whitford, J. (2017) Fixing network failures? The contested case of the American Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Socio-Economic Review, 15 (2), pp. 331-357. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03134423

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teaching activities 

Sciences Po, Campus Nancy

Data Science for the social good (semester 2020)

Expert work in the digital age (semester 2020)

University of Mannheim, Germany: BA Seminars

• Introduction to the Sociology of Professions and Science (Spring 2019; Spring 2018; Spring 2017)
• Introduction to Economic Sociology (Fall 2018; Spring 2018; Fall 2017; Fall 2016)*
• Empirical Research Practicum (Fall 2018)
• Organizational Innovation (Spring 2016)
• Hacking the Meso-Level (Computational Social Science Introduction; March 2014)

University of Mannheim, Germany : MA Seminars

• Python Programming for Social Sciences (February 2018)
• Sociology of Professions and Science (Fall 2018; Fall 2016)
• Topics in Economic Sociology (Spring 2017)

Columbia University, New York, USA

• Organizing Innovation - Teaching assistant; instructor: David Stark (Fall 2015)
• Senior Thesis Seminar - Teaching assistant; instructor: Tom DiPrete (2013 - 2014)

other activities 

Participation

American Sociological Association; European Sociological Association; Akademie für Soziologie (AS); European Group of Organizational Studies; Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics; Center of Organizational Innovation, Columbia University (2010-2016)

Grants

2018
“Immigrants’ career changes in German organizations” Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (seed grant; Principal investigator)

2017
“Chains of opportunity in politics: An organizational analysis of politicians’ careers in the German Bundestag since 1949” Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (seed grant; Co-Pi with Henning Hillmann)

Awards & Honors

2019
Sociology and political sciences student teaching award, University of Mannheim

2010-2015
Paul F. Lazersfeld Fellow, Sociology, Columbia University, New York, USA

2009-2010
President’s List, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

education

2016
Ph.D., Sociology, Columbia University, New York (USA)
Dissertation: “Mechanisms of Emergence in the Data Science Profession”
Committee: Peter Bearman (advisor), Josh Whitford, David Stark, Catherine Turco (MIT), Gil Eyal (chair)

2014
M.Phil., Sociology

2012
M.A., Sociology

2010
B.A., Jacobs University Bremen (Allemagne).
Integrated Social Sciences;
Honors: President’s List
Advisor: Christofer Edling