Helena Miton
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
MBA Class of 1969 Faculty Scholar for 2024–2025
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Bio
Helena Miton holds a BA in Sociology from the Université Paris IV Sorbonne, a Master degree in Cognitive Science from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary). After her doctorate, she completed an Omidyar fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute.
Research Interests
- Cultural Evolution
- Cognition
- Historical Dynamics
Academic Degrees
- PhD in Cognitive Science, Central European University, 2019
- Master in Cognitive Science, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS Ulm), 2014
- BA in Sociology, Université Paris IV Sorbonne, 2012
Awards and Honors
- Disciplinary Diversity and Inclusion Award, Cognitive Science Society, 2021
- Best Dissertation Award, Central European University, 2021
- Best Student Paper Award, Cultural Evolution Society, 2017
- First-year PhD Student Award, Central European University, 2017
Research Statement
Helena Miton’s research focuses on the interplay between minds and culture, and how the interactions between them led to contemporary organizational forms. She investigates questions such as how knowledge is passed on and maintained through time, and how constraints faced by human collectives would explain the development of cognitive technologies — like writing — and organizational forms. As an interdisciplinary researcher, she uses computational models, experiments, and large-scale archival datasets.