Ethan Fosse
Assistant Professor
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Ethan Fosse, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, Associate Director of the Data Sciences Institute, and Director of the Social Change Lab at the University of Toronto, received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. Before joining the University of Toronto, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Politics, where he developed and led a series of open-source statistical programming workshops. At the University of Toronto, Professor Fosse co-created the Certificate in Computational Social Science and currently teaches courses on quantitative methods, social change, and computational social science.
Professor Fosse's research focuses on applying innovative computational and quantitative methods to understand social change. He is currently engaged in three interrelated projects: first, creating a new set of techniques for cohort analysis, with wide application in sociology and related fields; second, applying and extending these methods to various substantive areas, from verbal ability to political party identification to social mobility; finally, developing and applying novel computational social science approaches, such as sociospatial temporal clustering, decomposition analysis, and text-based regression models. Professor Fosse's research has been published in numerous volumes and journals, with recent work appearing in Demography, Sociological Science, and the Annual Review of Sociology.
Recent Publications
Fosse, Ethan and Christopher Winship. 2024. "Varieties of Cross-Cohort Differentiation: Generalizing the Life-cycle and Social Change Model for Cohort Analysis.'' Forthcoming in Sociological Science.
Fosse, Ethan. 2024. "Age-Period-Cohort Effects.'' Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, edited by George Ritzer, Chris Rojek, and J. Michael Ryan. London, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
Mason, Joyce, Audrey LaPorte, Ted McDonald, Paul Kurdyak, Ethan Fosse, and Claire de Oliveira. 2024. "Assessing the 'Healthy Immigrant Effect' in Mental Health: Intra- and Inter-Cohort Trends in Mood and/or Anxiety Disorders." Social Science & Medicine 340:116367.
Fosse, Ethan and Christopher Winship. 2023. "The Anatomy of Cohort Analysis: Decomposing Comparative Cohort Careers.'' Sociological Methodology 1-52.
Fosse, Ethan. 2023a. "Visualizing Social Change with Ryder Plots: The Rise and Fall of Verbal Ability in the United States.'' Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 9: 1-4.
Fosse, Ethan. 2023b. "Theorizing in the Cohort Mode: On Ryder's Processual Account of Social Change." Canadian Studies in Population 50:5.
Fosse, Ethan. 2023c. "Dissecting the Lexis Table: Describing Population-Level Variability with Age-Period-Cohort Data.'' Sociological Science 10:150-196.
Gowen, Ohjae, Ethan Fosse, and Christopher Winship. 2023. "Cross-Group Differences in Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: A Bounding Approach to the Gender Wage Gap." Sociological Science 10:731-68.
