Contributor Biographies

jimi adams

is Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. His work focuses on examining social networks to understand how infectious diseases and novel ideas spread. This has included modeling HIV/AIDS risk in the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa, and the organizational dynamics of interdisciplinary fields. He is the author of Gathering Social Network Data.

Filip Agneessens

is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento and an Associate Member of the Department of Sociology/Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Ghent University. His research centers on social network analysis with a specific focus on methodology and applications in intraorganizational settings. He has coedited a special issue in Social Networks on “Advances in Two-Mode Social Network Analysis” (with Martin Everett) and on “Negative and Signed Tie Networks” (with Nicholas Harrigan and Giuseppe [Joe] Labianca).

Afife Idil Akin

holds a PhD in Sociology from Stony Brook University (2018). Her research utilizes a combination of comprehensive datasets of social movement action and field experiments to analyze structural and emergent elements of social movement participation, especially in online petitions. Her collaborative experimental work with Arnout van de Rijt examines how initial success may be a defining factor for later success in a variety of social and political situations.

Richard A. Benton

is Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois. Benton’s research interests include economic sociology, organization theory, social stratification, and social networks. His primary research stream examines board interlock networks, corporate governance, and elite power. Other research examines the dynamics of contention in shareholder activism and how organizational processes affect social stratification. Benton’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation and has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Organization Science, Social Forces, and Social Networks.

Stephen P. Borgatti

is the Paul Chellgren Chair of Management at the University of Kentucky, where he is also department head. He received his PhD in Social Science from the University of California, Irvine, and his BA in Anthropology at Cornell. His research interests are in social networks, particularly in flow phenomena and cognition about networks. He is a past president of International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) and winner of the INSNA’s Simmel Award for lifetime achievement. He is coauthor of the UCINET software for social network analysis.

Katy Börner

is the Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Core Faculty of Cognitive Science, and Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a curator of the international Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit that features large-format maps and interactive data visualizations. She holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology in Leipzig (1991) and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern (1997). Börner is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Humboldt Research Fellow, and an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow.

Julien Brailly

is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Polytechnic of Toulouse (INPT/ENSAT) since 2017. He completed a PhD at the University Paris-Dauphine and a postdoc at the Swinburne University of Technology. He is a sociologist specialized in social network analysis and economic sociology. His recent works concern digital platforms and collective action, whether it concerns TV trade shows, water management in the Sub-Saharan community, or agriculture.

Matthew E. Brashears

is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. His work integrates ideas from evolutionary theory, social networks, organizational theory, and neuroscience and has appeared in Nature Scientific Reports, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Networks, and Advances in Group Processes, among others. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Army Research Institute, the Army Research Office, and the Office of Naval Research. He is coeditor 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. He works in the areas of social networks, mathematical models, and measurement in cultural and institutional analysis. Recent publications include “Capturing Distinctions while Mining Text Data: Toward Low-Tech Formalization for Text Analysis” (with Robin Wagner-Pacifici and John Mohr), Poetics (2018), and “Insurgencies as Networks of Event Orderings” (with Julia Smith), Sociological Theory (2018). He is a recipient of the Simmel Award (International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2005) and the James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Achievement Award (Section on Mathematical Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2018).

Julia Brennecke

is Reader in Innovation Management at the University of Liverpool Management School, United Kingdom, and an adjunct researcher at the Centre for Transformative Innovation at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Her research focuses on networks within and between organizations, with the aim of creating a better understanding of how and why network ties form and exposing the consequences of network connections for innovation. Her work has been published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, and Human Resource Management.

Jeanine Cunningham

is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Oregon. Her research examines the relationships among meaning-making activities, mobilization, and legitimacy claims. She is a mixed-methods researcher who uses network analysis to explore how powerful groups seek to shape cultural, environmental, and political landscapes through information dissemination, financial contributions, and the creation of alliances.

Sara R. Curran

is Professor of International Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington. She researches development and demographic dynamics, migration and immigrant incorporation, and population dynamics and climate change.

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 codirector of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester and has over 40 years’ experience in research in social network analysis. He graduated in mathematics from Loughborough University and then went on to Oxford to complete a master’s degree and a doctorate. He is a past president of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, winner of the Simmel Award for lifetime achievement in social network analysis, coeditor of the journal Social Networks, coauthor 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, Sciences Po, Paris. He obtained a PhD at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg on the influence of network structures on the management of water provision in an agro-pastoral community in northwestern Senegal. His research focuses on the self-governance of common pool resources in heterogeneous groups, the dynamics of institutions for collective action, and the structural effects of governance processes.

Eric Feltham

is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Yale University, and he holds an MA in Statistics from Yale. Additionally, he is 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. He received his PhD in measurement, evaluation, and statistical analysis from the School of Education at the University of Chicago in 1993. His substantive interests include the study of schools as organizations, social structures of students and teachers and school decision making, and social capital. His substantive areas are linked to several methodological interests: social network analysis, sensitivity analysis and causal inference (http://konfound-it.com), and multilevel models. His recent publications include agent-based models of the social dynamics of the implementation of innovations in organizations and the implications of social networks for educational opportunity.

Jan Fuhse

is currently a Replacement Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany. After receiving his PhD in Sociology from Universität Stuttgart (Germany) in 2007, he completed a postdoc at Columbia University in 2007–2008. From 2009 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, completing his Habilitation in 2011. From 2013 to 2018 he had a research fellowship at Humboldt University of Berlin. Fuhse’s research focuses on communication and meaning in social networks, on social networks in inequality, on interethnic relations, and on constellations in political discourse.

Colin Gallagher

is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Transformative Innovation at the Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria, Australia. His research interests include the application of statistical methods for social networks to substantive issues in social psychology, education, organizational culture, and mental health.

G. Robin Gauthier

is Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her interests are gender, family, health, and social networks. She has three primary areas of research, examining how peer groups reinforce or challenge established gender norms in a social setting, how patterns of social connections affect risk for health outcomes, and how social network models can uncover how social roles are enacted in everyday life. Since starting as an assistant professor, her research has appeared in journals including PLoS One, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Social Sciences, and the Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse.

Eric Gladstone

is a UX Researcher at Facebook, and an organizational and social network scientist. His work examines human and software interface interactions, and human behaviors and perceptions in and of social and organizational networks. He lists the following in no certain order as life priorities: research, non-human animal pets, human wife, basketball, swimming, biking, sailing, science fiction.

Clara Granell

is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. She obtained her PhD from Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Her past appointments include postdoctoral training at the Department of Mathematics of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems. Her work is devoted to complex systems, with a special focus on problems suited to be represented with networks. She has experience working in community detection, epidemic spreading, and multiplex networks as well as applying theoretical methods to real data, such as neuronal networks.

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 was at Northwestern University and Caltech before joining Stanford and received his BA from Princeton University in 1984 and PhD from Stanford in 1988. Jackson’s research interests include game theory, microeconomic theory, and the study of social and economic networks, on which 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 coteaches two others on game theory. Jackson is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Game Theory Society Fellow, and an Economic Theory Fellow, and his other honors include the von Neumann Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the B.E. Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, and teaching awards.

James A. Kitts

is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Computational Social Science Institute at the University of Massachusetts. He earned his PhD from Cornell University in 2001 and previously held faculty appointments at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Washington. Bridging computational social science, sociology, and public health, he has worked on methods to detect social interaction from audio signals using wearable sensors, has analyzed the dynamics of patient transfers across hospitals, and directs an NIH-funded longitudinal study of adolescent friendship networks. His work appears in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Networks, Demography, and Social Psychology Quarterly.

Adam M. Kleinbaum

is Associate Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. His research examines the antecedents and evolution of social networks in organizations and has shown how formal and informal structures and processes, prior career history, individual personality, and brain structure and function all contribute to advantageous networks. His work is methodologically diverse, ranging from the analysis of electronic communications to neuroimaging to computational linguistics, but thematically focused on the formation and evolution of social networks. He enjoys commuting to campus on his vintage three-speed bicycle.

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 an archaeologist interested both in the micro-processes of meaning making in material culture and in the macro-scale dynamics of interaction within and between communities. To this end he has sought to develop network approaches that have broad applicability for the study of ancient material culture and society. His publications include Thinking through Material Culture, An Archaeology of Interaction, and Network Analysis in Archaeology. He conducts fieldwork at various Bronze Age sites across the Aegean and directs the new excavations at the Minoan town of Palaikastro in east Crete.

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. She received her PhD in 2010 in Organizational Behavior and Decision Sciences from Indiana University as well as an MS in Statistics. She is a faculty member of the Department of Sociology. Her research interests include social networks, longitudinal analysis, and research design.

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, among which The Collegial Phenomenon: The Social Mechanisms of Cooperation among Peers in a Corporate Law Partnership and Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: Redefining Organizations with Multilevel Relational Infrastructures. His research brings together social theory, sociology of organizations, economic sociology, and social and organizational network analyses. He received the 2018 Simmel Award of the International Network of Social Network Analysts.

Claire Le Barbenchon

is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Sociology at Duke University, pursuing a concurrent master’s in Statistical Science. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social networks, migration and economic sociology.

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). His research focuses on social and technological innovation, organizational culture, knowledge transfer, and network effectiveness. Dean is a Board Member of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, a founding member of the Australian Network for Social Network Analysis, and an editorial board member of the journal Social Networks. He leads the Swinburne node of MelNet.

Christopher Steven Marcum

is a Staff Scientist for Data Science Policy at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His research has two arms: network methods development and understanding how health impacts network processes over the life course. He is the recipient of the 2015 Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Award from the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health for his work on intergenerational exchange from a network perspective.

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, as well as articles on methodology, cognition, social networks, and theory.

Tyler H. McCormick

is Associate Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington, where he is also a core faculty member in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. He is also a Senior Data Science Fellow and colead for Data Science Education & Career Development at the eScience Institute, the University of Washington’s data science center. McCormick’s work develops statistical models that infer dependence structure in scientific settings where data are sparsely observed or subject to error. His recent projects include estimating features of social networks (e.g., the degree of clustering or how central an individual is) using data from standard surveys, inferring a likely cause of death (when deaths happen outside of hospitals) using reports from surviving caretakers, and quantifying and communicating uncertainty in predictive models for global health policymakers. He holds a PhD in Statistics (with distinction) from Columbia University and is the recipient of an NIH Career Development (K01) Award, an Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award, and a Google Faculty Research Award. Tyler currently serves as Editor for the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS).

Steve McDonald

is Professor of Sociology and University Faculty Scholar at North Carolina State University. His primary area of study investigates the economic consequences of race and gender inequality in access to social capital. This has taken the form of research on “nonsearching,” the receipt of unsolicited job leads from interpersonal connections, and natural mentoring relationships. McDonald edited the research in the Sociology of Work volume on “Networks, Work, and Inequality.” His research has also appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, and Social Networks.

M. Giovanna Merli

is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology and Global Health at Duke University, where she also directs the Duke Population Research Institute. Her research straddles demography, social networks, and global health with a significant methodological component in the design of population representative surveys of sexual networks and the evaluation of innovative network-based sampling approaches to recruit samples of hidden populations or rare populations.

Peter J. Mucha

is a Professor of Mathematics and Applied Physical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He obtained his PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton, was a postdoctoral instructor at MIT, and was previously a faculty member at Georgia Tech. His research spans broad interests in applications of networks and network representations of data.

James P. Murphy

is a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research. His research focuses on how the foundations and consequences of interpersonal social networks varies across different institutional contexts. Currently, he is engaged in two major research projects. The first examines how the composition and dynamics of police partner networks affect alleged officer misconduct. His second line of research considers how multiplex networks of friendship and conflict affect preadolescents’ perceptions of their school communities and sense of belonging.

Sophie Mützel

is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. She works in the areas of economic and cultural sociology, social network analysis, computational text analysis, and sociological theory. Her recent publications have looked at practices of data-driven companies, studied the organization of creativity, and examined the emergence of a new market. She is currently principal investigator of the research project “Facing Big Data: Methods and Skills Needed for a 21st Century Sociology” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Zachary P. Neal

is Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where he studies urban networks in multiple domains and at multiple scales, including social networks in neighborhoods, transportation networks in regions, and economic networks globally. He also conducts research on methods for generating and analyzing bipartite projections. He is the author of more than 60 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 a researcher at Facebook. He is interested in trust and in the broader area of how technology is impacting relationships. The key insight of his work is that technology is not only accumulating data about people but is transforming lives. We live in a largely engineered space where interactions are often designed by algorithms. A new space for an applied social science has now emerged as a result of the digital transformation. Paolo’s current position in industry allows him to pursue this more applied side of computational social science. Prior to his current position, Paolo has worked as an assistant professor at Stanford, senior data scientist at Uber and lead trust scientist at Airbnb.

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 an Associate Professor of Organization Behavior at ESMT Berlin. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in Australia. His research work focuses on examining the dynamics of social networks and how they relate to group and individual outcomes. His research has appeared in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Organizational Research Methods, Social Networks, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Brian W. Rogers

is Professor of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, Director of the MISSEL lab at Washington University, and an Associate Editor at Mathematical Social Sciences. His research interests are in microeconomic theory, in particular, the fields of network formation, social learning, behavioral game theory, and decision theory. He is interested in developing and applying statistical game theoretic models, which provide theoretical insights into behavior and are often useful for describing and interpreting experimental data. Current work explores the phenomena of ambiguity aversion and rational inattention through lab experiments.

Tatiane Santos

is a postdoctoral fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and adjunct faculty at the Colorado School of Public Health. Her research has focused on evaluating the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provisions on population health outcomes, health care utilization, and costs. She is primarily interested in public health services and systems research specific to policies and reimbursement reforms that encourage institutions in the health care and governmental public health sectors to align efforts to improve population health. She has evaluated Colorado’s Medicaid reform efforts, as well as Colorado’s state innovation model that seeks to integrate primary care and behavioral health. She is interested in applying organization theory and social network methods to explore the role of community social capital in promoting public health.

David R. Schaefer

is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His research investigates the mechanisms responsible for network formation and change, with an empirical focus on networks in school and prison settings. In addition, he studies how social networks influence various outcomes related to human development and health-related behavior. He is the recipient of the 2012 Freeman Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the International Network for Social Network Analysis.

Saray Shai

is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Wesleyan University. She holds dual BS degrees from the Israel Institute of Technology and a PhD from the University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom. She was a postdoc at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on developing network-based mathematical and computational tools and applying them to data analysis problems arising in a variety of contexts.

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 (UNL). He joined the faculty at UNL in 2013, shortly after receiving his PhD from Duke University. His work falls at the intersection of network analysis, traditional statistical methods, and social stratification. He has done methodological work on network sampling and missing data, as well as more substantive work on network processes like homophily and status. His work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Sociological Methodology, Social Networks, Social Science & Medicine, and other venues.

Natalie Stanley

is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, she finished her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests are community detection in networks, computational immunology, and bioinformatics for multiomics integration.

Dane Taylor

is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He has a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has held postdoc positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute. Dr. Taylor is interested in network-based models for complex systems and high-dimensional data, and his work is currently supported by the Simons Foundation.

Arnout van de Rijt

is currently Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He received his PhD in 2007 in Sociology from Cornell University and has had faculty appointments at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests include collective action, stratification, social networks, computational social science, mathematical sociology, and the sociology of science.

Peng Wang

is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Transformative Innovation, the Swinburne University of Technology, and a leading network methodologist for the development of exponential random graph models and autologistic actor attribute 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. He holds a prestigious Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council. Wang was a founding member of MelNet.

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 in 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 coauthor of Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications, and is an Honorary Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the International Statistical Institute, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received his PhD in 1977 in Statistics from Harvard University. He is a member of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Department of Statistics.

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. Her research examines how minds align to transfer, share, and create information and how this alignment scaffolds social connectedness. Her work employs a multidisciplinary approach that includes neuroimaging, natural language processing, cross-cultural research, and social network analyses.

Venice Ng Williams

is a Post-doctoral Mixed Methods Researcher at the University of Colorado Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health. She received her PhD in Health Services Research from the Colorado School of Public Health and is trained in program planning, evaluation, and econometrics. Her research focuses on mixed methods, maternal-child health, organizational collaboration, and translating research into practice within the context of prevention programs. She has previously worked in health promotion, tobacco prevention policies, systems change evaluation, health impact assessments, and hospital community-benefit research.

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. His research expertise includes advanced quantitative methods, computational social science, and social network analysis, with applications to education, science policy, and health sciences. His research has appeared in journals such as Social Networks, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and System Dynamics Review.

Yves Zenou

is Professor of Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and holds the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics. He is Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and Fellow of the Regional Science Association International. His research interests include social interactions and network theory, urban economics, segregation and discrimination of ethnic minorities, criminality, and education.

Min Zhou

is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria, Canada. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2011. His research applies a sociological perspective to global market networks, international organizations, global environmentalism, and East Asia relations, while employing interdisciplinary approaches. He has published articles in various sociological journals including Social Forces, Social Networks, International Sociology, Social Science Research, Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Perspectives, the Canadian Review of Sociology, and the Journal of East Asian Studies. His recent research projects have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.