Brooke A. Luetgert

Associate Senior Instructional Professor

Associate Director of Digital Studies

5720 South Woodlawn Avenue, Room 005B

Brooke Luetgert has a Ph.D. in economics from the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, Germany, a master’s degree in political economy from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and German studies from Wellesley College. She has expertise in quantitative research methods involving statistical analysis of data sets and large-scale data mining. Prior to joining the University of Chicago, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Research Methodology at Sabancı University in Istanbul, Turkey.

Brooke administers the Master of Arts Program in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History and provides guidance for students through all stages of the program, from admission to graduation. She teaches four of the courses required in this M.A. program: “Introduction to Computer Programming Using Python” (Autumn), “Introduction to Statistics Using Python” (Winter), “Data Visualization for the Humanities” (Spring), and “Machine Learning for the Humanities” (Autumn, for students in the two-year version of the program). She also teaches non-credit skill-building tutorials on using GitHub, Web scraping, Linux/UNIX, and RStudio (for the R language for statistical programming). In addition, she supports the computational research of faculty and students and does her own computational research.