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Isak Ladegaard is an Assistant Professor of Sociology with interests in criminology, science and technology, and economic sociology. He employs a combination of qualitative and computational research methods in his work.

Ladegaard’s research has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, including Social Problems, Social Forces, British Journal of Criminology, Sociology, Socio-Economic Review, and Sociological Review.

His book about shadowy online groups, Open Secrecy, is published by University of California Press.

Before returning to the University of Hong Kong, where he did his undergraduate degree, he spent four years on the tenure track at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a year and a half as a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, and six years at Boston College, where he obtained his Ph.D. He was born in Oslo.

Contact:

isak.ladegaard@gmail.com

ladegaard.bsky.social

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