The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks
Edited by Ryan Light and James Moody
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Edited by Ryan Light, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon, and Edited by James Moody, Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology, Duke University
Ryan Light is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and the Digital Scholarship Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Oregon Libraries. His work has appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annual Review of Sociology, and Social Forces, among others. James Moody is the Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology at Duke University. He has published extensively in the field of social networks, methods, and social theory with over 70 peer reviewed papers and extensive applied consultation with industry and DoD. He is Founding Director of the Duke Network Analysis Center, former editor of the online Journal of Social Structure, and co-founding editor of the American Sociological Association's new Open Access journal Socius.
Contributors:
Bruno Abrahao is Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Assistant Professor, NYU.
jimi adams is Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of Gathering Social Network Data.
Filip Agneessens is Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the University of Surrey and an Associate Member of the Department of Sociology/Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, having previously worked at the University of Groningen and VU University Amsterdam.
Afife Idil Akin holds a PhD in Sociology from Stony Brook University (2018).
Richard A. Benton is Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois.
Stephen P. Borgatti is the Paul Chellgren Chair of Management at the University of Kentucky, where he is also department head. He is co-author of the UCINET software for social network analysis.
Katy Börner is the Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Julien Brailly is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Polytechnic of Toulouse (INPT/ENSAT) since 2017.
Matthew E. Brashears is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. He is co-editor for Social Psychology Quarterly, and is an officer in the American Sociological Association's Social Psychology Section.
Ronald Breiger is a Regents' Professor and Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona.
Julia Brennecke is Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Knowledge Management at the University of Liverpool Management School, UK, and an adjunct researcher at the Centre for Transformative Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.
Jeanine Cunningham is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Oregon.
Sara R. Curran is Professor of International Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Washington. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Global Health, affiliate faculty of the Center for Global Studies, the Southeast Asian Center, the Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA), and the EarthLab.
Emily Erikson is Associate Professor of Sociology and the School of Management (by courtesy) at Yale University and Director of the Fox International Fellowship Program. She is the author of Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company, 1600-1757 and several other works on the role of networks in institutional transformation and historical processes.
Martin G. Everett is currently co-director of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester. He is a past president of INSNA (the International Network for Social Network Analysis), winner of the Simmel Award for lifetime achievement in social network analysis, co-editor of the journal Social Networks, co-author of the social network analysis package UCINET and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Malick Faye is an academic staff member at the Method Center for Economic, Social and Cultural Sciences at the Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen) and since 2016 a Research Associate at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations at Sciences Po (Paris).
Eric Feltham is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Yale University and a graduate student researcher in the Yale Institute for Network Science.
Kenneth A. Frank is MSU Foundation professor of Sociometrics, Professor in Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education; and Adjunct (by courtesy) in Fisheries and Wildlife and Sociology at Michigan State University.
Jan Fuhse is currently a Replacement Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany.
Colin Gallagher is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Transformative Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, Australia.
G. Robin Gauthier is Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her interests are gender, family, health, and social networks.
Eric Gladstone is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Gatton College of Business & Economics at the University of Kentucky, and a member of the LINKS Center for Network Analysis.
Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute. He has published many articles and the books The Human Network and Social and Economic Networks. He also teaches an online course on networks and co-teaches two others on game theory.
James A. Kitts is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Computational Social Science Institute at the University of Massachusetts.
Adam M. Kleinbaum is Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Carl Knappett holds the Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Thinking Through Material Culture, An Archaeology of Interaction, and Network Analysis in Archaeology.
Valentina Kuskova is the Head of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. She is also the Applied Statistics with Network Analysis Program Academic Supervisor at HSE and Deputy First Vice Rector.
Emmanuel Lazega is Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the author of several books, including The Collegial Phenomenon: The Social Mechanisms of Cooperation Among Peers in a Corporate Law Partnership and the forthcoming Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: A Multilevel Network Perspective.
Claire Le Barbenchon is a PhD student at Duke University in a joint-degree program in Public Policy and Sociology, pursuing a concurrent Master's in Statistical Science.
Dean Lusher is Professor of Innovation Studies in the Centre for Transformative Innovation at the Swinburne University of Technology. He is a social network analyst with expertise in the theory and application of exponential random graph models (ERGMs).
Christopher Steven Marcum is a Staff Scientist and Methodologist in the Social Network Methods Section of the Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
John Levi Martin is Florence Borchert Bartling Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Social Structures, The Explanation of Social Action, Thinking Through Theory, Thinking Through Methods, and Thinking Through Statistics.
Clara Granell is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.
Tyler H. McCormick is Associate Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington and a core faculty member in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. He is also a Senior Data Science Fellow and co-lead for Data Science Education & Career Development at the eScience Institute, UW's data science center.
Steve McDonald is Professor of Sociology and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University. He edited the research in the Sociology of Work volume on "Networks, Work, and Inequality."
M. Giovanna Merli is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Duke University.
Peter J. Mucha is a Professor of Mathematics and Applied Physical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
James P. Murphy is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Chicago.
Sophie Mützel is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Zachary P. Neal is Associate Professor at Michigan State University. He is the author of more than sixty peer-reviewed publications and four books, and currently serves as an editor at Journal of Urban Affairs, Evidence and Policy, and Global Networks.
Andrew V. Papachristos is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and Director of the Northwestern Network and Neighborhood Initiative.
Paolo Parigi is currently the Lead Trust Scientist at Airbnb and the Associate Director of Computational Social Science at IRiSS at Stanford University.
Carolyn Parkinson is Assistant Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, Director of the Computational Social Neuroscience Lab, and a faculty member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute.
Eric Quintane is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia.
Brian W. Rogers is Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, director of the MISSEL lab at Wash U, and an associate editor at Mathematical Social Sciences.
Tatiane Santos is a research assistant at The University of Colorado-Denver.
David R. Schaefer is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
Saray Shai is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wesleyan University.
Chris M. Smith is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
Jeffrey A. Smith is Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Natalie Stanley is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
Dane Taylor is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.
Arnout van de Rijt is currently Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University.
Peng Wang is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, and a leading network methodologist for the development of exponential random graph models and auto-logistic actor attributes models. He is the designer and programmer for the PNet suite of software packages, which are used around the world for the simulation and estimation of network data.
Stanley Wasserman is the James H. Rudy Professor of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology at Indiana University. He is also Research Fellow of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and has had faculty appointments at Minnesota and Illinois. Professor Wasserman was Founding Chair of the Department of Statistics at Indiana, and Founding Editor and Coordinating Editor of the journal Network Science. He is co-author of Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.
Thalia Wheatley is Associate Professor in the Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Dartmouth, Director of the Dartmouth Social Intelligence Laboratory and Director of the Social Lab consortium at Dartmouth.
Venice Ng Williams is a doctoral candidate in Health Services Research at the University of Colorado and the lead mixed-methods research analyst at the Prevention Research Center for Family & Child Health.
Ran Xu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and an applied statistician in the Department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.
Yves Zenou is Professor of Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and holds the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics.
Min Zhou is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, Canada.