Gil Eyal - Incite at Columbia University
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Gil Eyal
(Director, The Trust Collaboratory)
- Contact ge2027@columbia.edu
Gil Eyal's sociological research focuses on science, medicine, professions, intellectuals, and knowledge, especially as these intersect with political and legal institutions.
Gil calls this the sociology of expertise, because this term does not prejudge who or what is included within the field. He is interested in what scientists and professionals do, but also in how ordinary people, as “lay experts,” put together novel forms of expertise. Focusing on “expertise” also means that in his research he is interested not only in who is considered an expert but also in what is necessary to be in place for the expert performance of a task. Currently, he is especially interested in understanding the causes and dimensions of the contemporary mistrust of experts, including the attempts to cast doubt on the findings of climate science, the refusal of parents to vaccinate their children, or the dismissal of sober assessments by economic experts (e.g., at the time of the Brexit debate).
Gil directs the Trust Collaboratory, aiming to involve a broad group of scholars, scientists, and members of the public in an effort to take stock of the current crisis and how it may be mitigated. In another line of work, he is interested in the interrelations between basic science and medical practice, especially as they are transformed by what is now called “precision medicine." Gil is also co-directing Columbia’s nascent Precision Medicine & Society program, which fosters conversations and supports research on the social, economic, legal, and ethical dimensions of precision medicine.
Projects
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go to Closing the Gap Between Trustworthy and Trusted AI
Closing the Gap Between Trustworthy and Trusted AIJumpstarting conversations about trust in AI and its impact on trust in institutions. Funded by Columbia University -
go to Covid-19 and Trust in Science
Covid-19 and Trust in ScienceDocumenting the experiences of Post-Covid Syndrome patients in the United States, Brazil, and China. Funded by Meta
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go to Criminal Legal Algorithms, Technology, and Expertise
Criminal Legal Algorithms, Technology, and ExpertiseInvestigating how carceral algorithms destabilize work practices, legal frameworks, and the legitimacy of expert authority.
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go to Trust in Autonomous Labs
Trust in Autonomous LabsExploring the implications of autonomous labs in knowledge and society.
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go to TrustWorkers
TrustWorkersPartnering with community healthcare workers to explore how trust is obtained, repaired, and built. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Related Works
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Larry Au, Christian Capotecu, Gil Eyal, Sophie Sharp, "How People Decide to Trust in Science", American Scientist, January 1, 2024
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Hannah Pullen-Blasnik, Gil Eyal, Amy Weissenbach, "‘Is your accuser me, or is it the software?’ Ambiguity and contested expertise in probabilistic DNA profiling", August 2, 2023
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Gil Eyal, Thomas Medvetz, "The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics", Oxford University Press, May 26, 2023
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Gil Eyal, "Sociology of expertise as public sociology", Research Handbook ofPublic Sociology, May 18, 2023
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Cristian Capotescu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Judelysse Gomez, Jack LaViolette, Danielle Lee Tomson, "The TrustWorkers Project:Challenges and Methods of Building Trust into Public Scholarship", Public Philosophy Journal, May 9, 2023
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Cristian Capotescu, Tashi Chodon, James Chu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Rishi Goyal, Olusimbo Ige, Jack LaViolette, Sarah Mallik, Lula Mae Phillips, Paulette Spencer, Danielle Lee Tomson, "Community health workers' critical role in trust building between the medical system and communities of color", American Journal of Managed Care, October 28, 2022
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Cristian Capotescu, Tashi Chodon, James Chu, Elizabeth Cohn, Gil Eyal, Rishi Goyal, Olusimbo Ige, Jack LaViolette, Sarah Mallik, Lula Mae Phillips, Paulette Spencer, Danielle Lee Tomson, "Community Health Workers can Play a Critical Role in Fostering Trust between the Medical System and Minority Communities", American Journal for Managed Care, October 6, 2022
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Larry Au, Cristian Capotescu, Gil Eyal, Gabrielle Finestone, "Long covid and medical gaslighting: Dismissal, delayed diagnosis, and deferred treatment", SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, September 7, 2022
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Jordan Brensinger, Gil Eyal, "The Sociology of Personal Identification", Sociological Theory, November 20, 2021
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Larry Au, Gil Eyal, "Whose Advice is Credible? Claiming Lay Expertise on a Covid‐19 Online Community", Qualitative Sociology, November 3, 2021
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Gil Eyal, "Beware the Trolley Zealots", Sociologica, May 20, 2020
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Gil Eyal, "The Crisis of Expertise", Polity Press, November 11, 2019
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Luciana Souza Leão, Gil Eyal, "The Rise of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in International Development in Historical Perspective", Theory and Society, June 1, 2019
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Gil Eyal, "Trans-science as a vocation", Journal of Classical Sociology, May 23, 2019