Naim Bro

Assistant Professor at School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
Researcher at Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data
Ph.D. Sociology University of Cambridge, 2020
Research areas: Political sociology, stratification, computational social science
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Selected publications

1. A frustratingly easy way of extracting political networks from text
   Plos One 2025.
   Data: this dataset is all that is needed to conduct experiments 1 and 2 from the paper.
   
2. Fairness in LLM-Generated Surveys
   Arxiv 2025.
   
3. The economics of ethnic marriages: Endogamy and the social status of minority groups
   British Journal of Sociology 2024.
   
4. The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834-1894
   Theory & Society 2023.
   Network data, Periods data
5. Surname affinity in Santiago, Chile: A network-based approach that uncovers urban segregation
   Plos One 2021.
6. SpatialCluster: A Python library for urban clustering
   SoftwareX 2024.
   
7. Surnames and Social Rank: Long-term Traits of Social Mobility in Colombia and Chile
   CAF working papers 2021
8. Much Ado About Facebook? Evidence from 80 Congressional Campaigns in Chile
   Journal of Information Technology & Politics 2022.
9. Predicting affinity ties in a surname network
   Plos One 2021.
10. Learning to cluster urban areas: two competitive approaches and an empirical validation
    EPJ Data Science 2022.

Teaching

1. Social Media and Network Science (syllabus)
   School of Government-MEPP, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2025
2. Computational Text Analysis for the Social Sciences (syllabus)
   Universidad Católica de Uruguay, 2025
3. AI in research (syllabus)
   Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chile, 2025
4. AI in research (syllabus)
   PhD in Institutions and Political Processes, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2024
5. Society, Culture, and Politics (syllabus)
   Business School, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2024
6. Social Media and Network Science (syllabus)
   School of Government-MEPP, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2024
7. Social Media and Network Science (syllabus)
   Faculty of Engineering, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2024
8. Topics in Legal Analytics (syllabus)
   Law School, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2024
9. Historical Social Networks (syllabus)
   Escuela de Verano Métodos Mixtos, Catholic University, Chile, 2024
10. Social Network Analysis (syllabus)
    School of Government-MEPP, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2023
11. AI in research (syllabus)
    PhD in Institutions and Political Processes, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2023
12. Data and Public Policy (syllabus)
    Faculty of Engineering, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2023
13. Social Media and Network Science (syllabus)
    Faculty of Engineering, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2023
14. Quantitative reasoning (syllabus)
    Business School, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2023
15. Elites in contemporary society (syllabus)
    Faculty of Liberal Arts, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2023
16. Social Network Analysis (syllabus)
    School of Government-MEPP, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2022
17. Data and Public Policy (syllabus)
    Business School, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2022
18. Data and Public Policy (syllabus)
    Universidad Católica de Chile, Diplomado de Data Science para la Política Pública, 2022
19. Social media mining and network science (syllabus)
    Universidad Católica, Magíster en Inteligencia Artificial, first semester 2022
20. Big data for the social sciences (syllabus)
    Universidad Diego Portales, Sociology, first semestre 2022
21. Quantitative sociology (syllabus)
    BIHE, 2021-2022
22. Introduction to computational social science (syllabus)
    Universidad de Chile, second semester 2021
23. Aproximación a la política pública desde los datos (syllabus)
    Universidad Católica de Chile, Diplomado de Data Science para la Política Pública, 2021
24. Big data for the social sciences
    Universidad Diego Portales, Sociology, first semester 2021
25. Introduction to computational social science
    Universidad de Chile, Sociology, second semester 2020
26. Big data for the social sciences
    Universidad Diego Portales, Sociology, first semestre 2020
27. Introduction to Social Network Analysis
    University of Cambridge, Social Science Research Methods Centre, Lent term 2019
28. Introduction to Social Network Analysis
    University of Cambridge, Social Science Research Methods Centre, Lent term 2018

Public writing

1. La histórica relación entre el rezago económico Mapuche y las decisiones matrimoniales
   TerceraDosis, 2024
2. Una elite polarizada y un pueblo desconectado de la política
   TerceraDosis, 2023
3. ¿Qué hay detrás del fenómeno “Ñuñoa”?
   TerceraDosis, 2023
4. Los veinte barrios donde se concentró el apruebo en Santiago
   TerceraDosis, 2022
5. La oligarquía del siglo XIX y sus descendientes
   TerceraDosis, 2022
6. Red en Twitter de candidaturas convencionales
   Plataforma Telar, 2021
7. Apellidos de elite y financiamiento de campañas
   Plataforma Telar, 2021
8. Lo que revelan los apellidos de los santiaguinos
   with Marcelo Mendoza
   Ciper Chile, 2021
9. Por qué los Larraínes prosperan y dirigen… y los González mucho menos
   Anrés Guzmán, interview with Naim Bro
   Ciper Chile, 2019
10. Táhirih unveiled: poet, theologian and revolutionary
    with Asiya Islam
    openDemocracy, 2016
11. Outside of the Box: Bahá’ís and Education in Iran
    Cambridge Globalist, 2014