Andrew Vasilios Papachristos is an American sociologist, professor of sociology and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern University. He is also the director of the Northwestern Neighborhoods & Networks Initiative (N3) that engages communities, civic partners, and policy makers to address core problems facing the residents of Chicago and surrounding communities. He previously served as professor of

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, where he directed the Policy Lab at Yale as well as the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course.

Education and career

A native of

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, Papachristos received his B.S. ''

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'' from

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in 1998, his M.A. from the

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in 2000, and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago in 2007. From 2007 to 2012, he was an assistant, and later associate, professor at the

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. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at

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. In 2012, he joined the faculty at Yale, where he was promoted to full professor in 2017, serving in the departments of sociology, public health (by courtesy), and at

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. In 2018, Papachristos joined the faculty of Northwestern University as professor of sociology, faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research (IPR), and founding director of the Northwestern Neighborhoods & Networks Initiative (N3).

Research

Papachristos is known for researching gun violence in the United States, and how social networks help spread it. With

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, he has shown that being a member of a certain social network within a given neighborhood increases the odds of being the victim of homicide by 900%. His research on gun violence has inspired an algorithm used to predict who will become a victim of gun violence in the future, based on nine years of data from

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