Miriam Hurtado Bodell
Miriam Hurtado Bodell is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Organizational Behavior area at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her research examines how concepts like immigration and gender develop meaning and why their interpretations sometimes become contested within society. She focuses on dissecting the mechanisms of cultural change, particularly how individual shifts, generational replacement, and social influence drive changes in collective understanding. Miriam is also interested in how people’s interpretations shape their attitudes and, in turn, influence their behaviors. In her empirical work, she primarily develops and applies natural language processing methods grounded in sociological theory to quantitatively track shifts in interpretation over time and across groups. Miriam received her PhD in Analytical Sociology from the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University, Sweden. Before her doctoral studies, she earned a Master’s degree in Statistics and Machine Learning from Linköping University, Sweden.