TUZZI ARJUNA

Arjuna Tuzzi is a (Full) Professor of Social statistics at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA) – Univ. of Padua, Italy.
Her main research interests concern: statistical analysis of textual data, data collection tools in social research, statistical methods for the evaluation of university systems, and political-institutional communication.
She obtained a degree in Statistical Sciences and Demography in 1996 and obtained a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics for Economics and Social Sciences in 2000.
She teaches Text Mining, Social Research Methods and Social Statistics for undergraduates and graduates in Communication Studies and Ph.D. students in Social sciences and in Linguistics, Philology and Literary Studies – Univ. of Padova. She also taught at the Univ. of Trieste, Ca’ Foscari Venice and for Foreigners Perugia.
In 2023 she was a visiting scholar at: EVL Lab - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - Duquesne Univ. (Pittsburgh PA, USA); Middle Eastern Studies Department, - Hamad Bin Khalifa Univ. (Doha, Qatar); Dept. of Italian Language and Literature (2017) and Lab for Phonetics and Computational Linguistics (2022) – National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens (Greece).
Arjuna Tuzzi is the director of the IQLA-GIAT Summer School in Quantitative analysis of textual data and one of the founders of the Interdisciplinary Text Analysis Group (GIAT).
She has been a member of the Council at large of the International Quantitative Linguistics Association (2012-2023) and for two offices (2014-2018) she was its President.
Member of the Evaluation Unit (NdV) of the Univ. of Padova (2015-2019) and of member of the Evaluation unit of the Univ. of Bologna (2016-2022) where she served also as President (2019-2022).
2012- board JQL (Taylor and Francis)
2022- associate editor SM&A (Springer)
2021- board of Glottometrics (RAM-Verlag)
2016- ReSTI – Religions, Spiritualities, Traditions, Inquiries, Dep.t FISPPA