Michael W. Macy is a Cornell University sociologist who is the Director of the Social Dynamics Laboratory and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Sociology.
[2] Macy was born in 1948 in Clarksville, Tennessee.
(Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study) from February to June 2002[3] and at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 2011 until 2012.
[4] Using a National Science Foundation grant, he and his team have “used computational models, online laboratory experiments, and digital traces of device-mediated interaction to explore familiar but enigmatic social patterns.”[2] he has also focused on political polarization.
[2] Students he has supervised include Damon Centola and Arnout van de Rijt (both in sociology) and in, information sciences, Sterling Williams-Ceci.