Amy Weissenbach - Incite at Columbia University

Amy Weissenbach is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Columbia interested in narrative, sociology of knowledge, and inequality.

With collaborators Peter Bearman and Armin Pournaki, she is currently analyzing roughly 10,000 letters written to Warren Buffett and his sister, Doris Buffett, between 2006 and 2016, from people around the U.S. seeking aid. The Buffett letters project uses a combination of computational methods and close reading to characterize the theories writers offer about how crises have arisen in their lives and what they need to get back on their feet. 

Amy is co-organizer (with Dian Sheng) of the Narrative Workshop at Incite.

She holds an MPhil in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine from University of Cambridge, and a BA with honors in English Literature from Stanford University.