Shaunette T. Ferguson

Shaunette T. Ferguson is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Data, Research, and Innovation Science (IDRIS) at Rutgers University-Newark, having previously held a postdoctoral fellowship jointly in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Africana Studies at Barnard College from 2023 to 2026. Ferguson earned a PhD in Economics from the Graduate School of Economics at Kobe University in 2022, following a Master of Economics from Macquarie University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of the West Indies. Ferguson's research applies temporal network analysis and systems-level frameworks to questions in financial and social systems, including work on human contact networks, social movements, and the dynamics of societal change. Additional areas of inquiry include authoritarianism, democracy, polarization, and racism.