Joe Higton

I am a second-year PhD student in Politics at New York University. My research focuses on measurement in quantitative social science, especially when using machine learning approaches. I am also interested in political speech, rhetoric and discourse. My work has been published in Political Analysis.

I have a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Social Research Methods from LSE. Before starting my PhD I worked as a communications consultant and later as an analyst for the UK Civil Service. You can email me at joe.higton@nyu.edu and look at my cv here.

Research

'Nationally Representative, Locally Misaligned: The Biases of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Neighborhood Perception' (with Paige Bollen and Melissa Sands). Political Analysis. (2025). [paper] [github] [interactive app]