Sophie Elizabeth Klitgaard
Research Interests
digital privacy; privacy rights; law & technology; mental models of information flow; cognitive science; digital communications; surveillance; evolutionary psychology; emotions; morality
Awards & Grants
Dorothy H. Jewell Summer Research Grant. UCLA Department of Anthropology. 2025.
Dorothy H. Jewell Summer Research Grant. UCLA Department of Anthropology. 2024.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSFGRFP) Recipient for project “Privacy: Investigating Evolved Psychological and Cultural Underpinnings.” 2023.
Summer Mentored Research Fellowship. UCLA Department of Anthropology. 2023.
University Fellowship. UCLA Department of Anthropology. 2022.
Del Amo Fellowship. UCLA Division of Social Sciences. 2022.
Exceptional Achievement in Evolutionary Anthropology Social Sciences Department. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. 2022.
College of Liberal Arts Summer Undergraduate Research Program Fellowship. 2021.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) recipient for work with Coleen Carrigan, PhD. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. 2021.
Learn By Doing Grant Recipient. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. 2021.
1st place poster award at California Workshop for Evolutionary Social Sciences (CWESS) research competition. 2020. California State University, Fullerton.
Conference Presentations
“Privacy and LLM-based Chatbots: Current Issues and Insights from Linguistic Theory.” Invited talk to Computer Science 263: Advanced Natural Language Processing.
Instructor: Saadia Gabriel. University of California, Los Angeles. 2026.
“An Evolutionary Account of Privacy.” Conference Presentation. California Workshop of Evolutionary Social Sciences, Santa Barbara. 2024
Degrees
B.S. in Anthropology & Geography, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2022
M.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2024
