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SocArXiv is part of the University of Maryland, and is directed by a steering committee of social scientists and members of the research library community. They are:
- Elizabeth Popp Berman, sociologist, University of Michigan
- Chris Bourg, director of libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Philip N. Cohen, director of SocArXiv and professor of sociology, University of Maryland, College Park
- Brittany Dernberger, sociologist, bnd Ventures and CARE
- Alex Hanna, Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute
- Rebecca Kennison, digital content editor, Health Sciences Library, Columbia University
- Omar Lizardo, sociologist, University of California, Los Angeles
- Pamela Oliver, sociologist, University of Wisconsin–Madison (emerita)
- Michelle Wilson, Head, Open Scholarship Services, University of Maryland Libraries
- Jeff Pooley, media and communication, University of Pennsylvania
- Judy Ruttenberg, Senior Director of Scholarship and Policy, Association of Research Libraries
Our technology partner is the Center for Open Science, which hosts the Open Science Framework Preprints server, of which we are an organizational member.
SocArXiv has been supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, as well as the libraries at the University of Maryland, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Papers submitted to SocArXiv are moderated by a team of dedicated volunteers. Our moderators are:
- Nathan Barron, PhD Candidate, University of Oklahoma. https://nathantbarron.github.io.
- Nate Breznau, Social Science, University of Bremen. crowdid.hypotheses.org.
- Taylor Brooks, PhD Candidate, University of Leicester.
- Philip N. Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park. philipncohen.com.
- Roxanne Connelly, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods, University of Edinburgh. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/roxanne-connelly
- João Granja-Correia, PhD candidate, Universidad de Cantabria. https://joao.granja-correia.eu/.
- Matt DeCarlo, Assistant Professor, La Salle University Department of Social Work; Co-founder, opensocialwork.org.
- Brittany Dernberger. brittanydernberger.com/.
- Bastián González-Bustamante, DPhil candidate, University of Oxford. https://bgonzalezbustamante.com.
- Sam Koreman, Postdoctoral Research Associate, PPE Program, University at Buffalo. https://www.skoreman.com.
- Katy Morris, Postdoctoral Fellow, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
- Pamela Oliver, Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison. ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver.
- Klaus Pforr, Researcher, GESIS, the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/about-us/staff/person/klaus.pforr.
- Jefferson Pooley, Media and Communication, University of Pennsylvania. jeffpooley.com.
- Patrick Präg, Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), CNRS, École polytechnique, GENES, ENSAE Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. sites.google.com/view/ppraeg/.
- Charles Rahal, Associate Professor of Data Science and Informatics, University of Oxford. crahal.com.
- Eike Mark Rinke, Lecturer in Politics and Media, University of Leeds. essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/1073/dr-eike-mark-rinke.
- Nils Witte, Senior Researcher, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany; Goethe-University Frankfurt. nilswitte.com.
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