Callista Christ
Project: Measuring Race and Gender in Children’s Books
Mentor: Anjali Adukia & H. Birali Runesha, Harris School of Public Policy & Research Computing Center
Research Area Keywords: Machine Learning & AI // Image Analysis // Society & Policy
Home Institution: The University of Chicago
Project Description: Callista Christ is a recent graduate of the College at the University of Chicago, where she majored in Physics and Astrophysics. This summer, she continued work with Drs. Anjali Adukia and Teodora Szasz on a CDAC Discovery Grant project seeking to measure messages about race and gender in children’s books. She wokred on classifying race, gender, and age in cartoons in children’s books, and analyzing how those classifications change throughout time. She also worked on analyzing how the sentiment around homeschooling, Trump, and COVID-19 in general has changed since January.