Alejandro Sarria Morales

Sociology grad student @ Duke University.

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I use computational methods to study politics and culture. My work draws on statistical modeling and natural language processing to understand how systems of political belief are structured, and how they influence the way people think and act.

Before coming to Duke, I received an MA in Computational Social Science from the University of Chicago and a BA in Psychology from Universidad de los Andes. You can see my complete CV here.

I was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and like to cook in my free time.

news

Mar 29, 2026 I’ll be in Bogotá this summer to be a part of the team for this year’s Summer Institute in Computational Social Science!
Mar 04, 2026 As an excuse to teach myself the ALC embedding method, I wrote a quick analysis of how news media represents presidential candidates in an election with 19 candidates. Check it out!