Congratulations to Mia Costa and Soroush Vosoughi!

Mia Costa, a member of the Steering Committee of the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) and the Department of Government, recently was promoted to Associate Professor of Government. Professor Costa published "How Politicians Polarize: Political Representation in an Age of Negative Partisanship" last year and has recently published an article in the American Journal of Political Science, titled "Why parties can benefit from promoting occupational diversity in legislatures: Experimental evidence from three countries." She teaches Experiments in Politics (QSS 30.03), Quantitative Political Analysis (GOVT 10), and Political Representation in the U.S. (GOVT 83.22). Professor Costa's areas of expertise are American politics, political behavior, representation, public opinion, gender, experiments, survey research, and political participation.

Soroush Vosoughi, a QSS Affiliate and member of the Department of Computer Science, recently was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Computer Science.  Professor Vosoughi is currently leading the Minds, Machine, and Society group in the Department of Computer Science. He teaches Machine Learning and Statistical Data Analysis (COSC 74), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (COSC 89.21), Artificial Intelligence (COSC 76), Foundations of Applied Computer Science (COSC 70.01), and Network Science and Complex Systems (COSC 89.23). Professor Vosoughi's areas of expertise are natural language processing, machine learning, computational social science, large language model, social media analytics, graph representation learning, social cyber-security, and bioinformatics.

You can read about Professor Costa, Professor Vosoughi, and other recently promoted Dartmouth faculty members here: Arts and Sciences Faculty Receive Tenure and Promotions