Benjamin Rohr

Welcome! I am a political and historical sociologist who uses quantitative and computational methods to study the formation and transformation of political organizations. I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago and am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Mannheim.

My current research examines state and party formation in the early American republic (1777-1820) and parliamentary debates in the German Reichstag during the Weimar Republic (1920-1932). I have also completed projects on the changing structure of elite recruitment in the American state (1850–2000), career mobility of political elites during China’s reform era (1978–2011), and political discourse in Renaissance Florence (1376–1378).

My research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science History, and Poetics.

You can contact me at rohr@uni-mannheim.de.