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