Jake Burchard

Postdoctoral Associate

I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Sociology at Duke. I received a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2025 and a BA in mathematics from Cornell University in 2017. I work on network models of disease transmission as part of Research Project 3 (RP3). Specifically, I study how relaxing some of the common but biologically unrealistic assumptions in standard epidemic models does or does not impact network-level epidemic outcomes. Outside of this work, I do research in the areas of economic sociology, political sociology, social stratification, and the philosophy of social science.