Annaliese Paulson
Annaliese Paulson is a doctoral candidate at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education in the School of Education. Drawing on tools from computational social science and natural language processing, she studies student curricular pathways through higher education institutions in the United States and the place of the traditional liberal arts curriculum in the postsecondary landscape. She is a 2024 Spencer/National Academic of Education Dissertation Fellow and was an Institute for Education Science's predoctoral fellow. Prior to graduate school, she worked for three years as a residence hall director at Lawrence University. Her work using natural language processing and generative language models to make postsecondary curriculum and student administrative transcripts legible at scale has helped secure $977,500 in grant funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, the Michigan Institute for Data Science, and the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan.
Educational background
- B.A., Lawrence University
- M.A., University of Michigan
