Quantitative methods,Political attitudes, private life and social cohesion, Family demography, gender, and the life course, Mobility behaviour and sustainability

Ansgar Hudde is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the University of Cologne. In 2019, he received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Bamberg. After one year as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Munich, he gained experience as policy advisor at the Bavarian Transport Ministry, only to return to academia a year later. Since then, he has been working at the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne, served as interim professor for “Sociology specializing in Quantitative Analyses of Social Change” at Goethe-University Frankfurt and was a visiting scholar at Sciences Po Paris and at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. In 2024, he finished his habilitation at the University of Cologne.

Published papers

• Why Do Young US Americans Avoid Cross-Partisan Dating? A Closer Look at Mediators and Variation by Gender and Party

  Taflinger, S. & Hudde, A. (2026). Why do young US Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? A closer look at mediators and variation by gender and party. European Sociological Review, jcag020.

Discussion papers

• A Golden Era for Open-Ended Questions? Using LLMs for Text Classification Tasks