Gabe Ignatow

Professor of Sociology

Chair of the Department of Spanish

Fields: Sociological Theory, Digital Research Methods, Cognitive Social Science, Globalization

Language 101E

Education: Ph.D., 2003, Stanford University

Research Interests: Dr. Gabe Ignatow is a sociological theorist with interests in digital research methods, cognitive social science, and globalization. His recent research focuses on implications of systems theorizing in the life sciences for sociological theory and research, new ways of theorizing social class in research on health inequality, and the implications of monetary theory for globalization research. His work has appeared in Social Forces, Sociological Forum, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, and International Migration Review.

Selected Publications:

Ignatow, Gabe. 2023. "Sociology and the international monetary system: an update of Hoogvelt and Vermeiren."Globalizations:1-14.

Ignatow, Gabe. 2022."The Microbiome-Gut-Brain and Social Behavior."Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 52(1):164-182.

Ignatow, Gabe. 2022."Cognitive Sociology after Relational Biology."Sociological Forum 36(S1):1253-1270.

Ignatow, Gabe. 2020.Sociological Theory in the Digital Age. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Brekhus, Wayne H., and Gabe Ignatow, eds. 2019.The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ignatow, Gabe, and Rada Mihalcea. 2017. An Introduction to Text Mining. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.