Hi! I’m Dr Sam Passmore, and you have found my website!

I am currently a Research Fellow at the Australian National University, working within the HASS Digital Research Hub, within the College of Arts and Social Sciences. I am also affiliated with the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Initiative (ECDI) and the Pacific Creoles Project, as part of the College of Asia and the Pacific.

I use quantitative approaches to research anthropological and linguistic questions usually through an evolutionary lens. I am interested in lots of topics, but my primary interest surround Kinship, Language diversity & endangerment, modelling cultural history, and slightly more broadly, the implications of statistical models on our understanding of the world.

This website contains a short bio, blog posts, and descriptions of my various research interests.