Howard E. Aldrich - link
Kenan Professor, Sociology,University of North Carolina.

Verna Allee - link
Practitioner, Thought Leader, Author, and Keynote Speaker about Value Networks

Scott Allen
Author, consultant, journalist
Online Business Networks and About.com Entrepreneurs Guide
Book: The Five Keys to Building Business Relationships Online by David Teten, with Donna Fisher and Scott Allen.

Research: Experiential research into effective techniques for professionals seeking to build business relationships in online social networks and business communities.

Articles:
"Online networking entering flow of mainstream business methods" - Houston Business Journal, 8 September 2003,
"Make the Right First Impression" - MBA Association Journal, April 2003
"More Publicity = Less Privacy" - MBA Association Journal, June 2003
"The Virtual Handshake: Business Development Through Online Networking" - Business Development Institute Journal, March 2004

Luís Amaral - link
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University
Our group's goal is to develop models that provide insight into the emergence, evolution, and stability of complex systems. To this end we develop and validate models that can be studied by means of computational experiments. Our approach focus on the identification of the mechanisms determining the dynamics of a given system. We then translate these mechanisms into a parsimonious set of rules that can be implemented and investigated by computational means. (source: link above)

Wayne E. Baker - link
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, University of Michigan

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi - link
Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Books: Linked: The New Science of Networks (How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means)
Research interests cover Networks, internet, cellular networks, Parasitic Computing, Clapping, Ratchets, Materials Science, Granular media.

Vladimir Batagelj - link
Professor of Discrete and Computational Mathematics -- mathematics, clustering, graph theory, network analysis.

Elisa Jayne Bienenstock
Booz Allen Hamilton, Falls Church, VA
Formerly: Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California - Irvine and Stanford University
In July 2003 Elisa Jayne Bienenstock left the Sociology Department at UC-Irvine and joined the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, in Falls Church VA, where she continues her research in network analysis and game theory. While much of her work remains theoretical, working at Booz Allen gives Dr. Bienenstock the opportunity to apply the most recent advances in social science methods to address a wide range of current problems faced by national security and homeland defense agencies. This position affords a unique opportunity to utilize cutting edge social science research to tackle pressing real world concerns, which requires a continued dialogue with her colleagues in sociology, whose skills and insights she incorporates into her client work. As recent advances in sociology are appreciated increasingly by those harged with countering threats to security, there will be more opportunities to apply innovative sociological techniques and ideas to solve these problems. (source: Agora Issue 91)

Phillip Bonacich - link
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles

Stephen P. Borgatti - link
Associate Professor of Organization Studies, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Tim Brazill
Department of Sociology, Bridgewater College
His professional interests include: community development, social cohesion and disorganization, crime and deviance; social networks; the cognition of social structure; the measurement of fundamental network properties, such as social distance and acquaintanceship volume; program evaluation, methodology and statistics.

Devon D. Brewer - link
Interdisciplinary Scientific Research, Seattle, Washington

John Seely Brown - link
Writer, Thought Leader, Former Director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Books: The Social Life of Information

Mark Buchanan
Author
Books: Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
Mark Buchanan is a science writer and holds a doctorate in physics. He has been an editor at Nature and New Scientist. He lives in France. (source WWNorton book blurb)

Ronald S. Burt - link
Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago

Kathleen M. Carley - link
Professor, School of Computer Science, Institute for Software Research International, Carnegie Mellon University

Noshir Contractor - link
Professor of speech communication and psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rob Cross - link
Assistant Professor of Commerce, University of Virginia

Jonathon N. Cummings - link
Assistant Professor of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ross Dawson - link
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Human Technologies
Books: Living Networks: Leading Your Company, Customers, and Partners in the Hyper-Connected Economy

Daniel Diermeier
IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice
Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
One of the co-founders of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems

Patrick Doreian - link
Professor of Sociology, Chair, Dept of Sociology, at the University of Pitttsburgh (email) and Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology (email)

Graham Douglas of Integrative Thinking. From the website

Graham Douglas is a pioneer author and consultant in Applied Mind Science in the field of Integrative Thinking and originator of Integrative Improvement-Sustainable Development as if People and Their Physical, Social and Cultural Environments Mattered, The SOARA Process of Integrative Thinking and Douglas Integrative Governance 247 (DIG 247).

J.D. Eveland - link
Professor, Organizational Psychology, California Professional School of Psychology, Los Angeles

Martin Everett - link
Professor of Applicable Mathematics, School of Computing and Mathematical Science, University of Greenwich

Ken Frank - link
Assistant Professor, Measurement and Quantitative Methods Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education, Michigan State University

Linton Freeman - link
Research Professor, Department of Sociology and Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
I conduct research in the area of structural-or social network-analysis. I also work with some students in the U.C.I. Graduate Program in Social Network Analysis, and I edit a journal called Social Networks.

Joseph Galaskiewicz - link
Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona

Mark Granovetter - link
Professor of Sociology & Department Chair, Stanford University

Arent Greve - link
Professor of Organization Theory, The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

Guy Hagen - link
President, Innovation Insight. "Our unique focus is on network capital and network analysis."

Steven Johnson - link
Author
Books: Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms The Way We Create And Communicate
Newsweek named him one of their "50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet," and The Village Voice chose him as one of their nine "Writers on the Verge 2000." Johnson's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Lingua Franca, Harper's, Brill's Content, and the London Guardian. He holds a B.A. in semiotics from Brown University and an M.A. in English from Columbia, and he lives in New York City. (source: About the Author on Amazon)

Charles Kadushin - link
Professor Emeritus Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY and Distinguished Scholar, Brandeis University
Charles Kadushin, Ph.D., is a leading authority on the design and analysis of survey research. He has extensive experience developing sampling methodology for difficult-to-reach populations and in the use of advanced multivariate statistical techniques. A founder of the social network field, he helped to create some of the first computer tools for the analysis of large sized social networks. Helped to develop state of the art methods for Internet surveys. Currently writing on social network theory (pdf of Chapter 2 of Introduction to Social Network Theory). (source: above link)

David Knoke - link
Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota

David Krackhardt
Associate Professor of Organizations and Public Policy, Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University
Journal of Social Structure
Biographical Sketch
Recent CMU Courses
Vita
KrackPlot: A Social Network Visualization Program
Contact Information
Sample Network Questionnaires
Research Papers

Valdis Krebs - link
Management Consultant, Orgnet.com
Valdis does excellent work on analyzing networks of people, both within organizations with his Inflow software that analyzes networks evidenced in electronic communication, and within the larger world to show examples of networks in politics and book-buying habits.

David Lazer - link
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government,

Barry Markovsky, Ph.D. Stanford University (1983), is Professor of Sociology and also Chair of the Department at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include group processes, social psychology, social networks, methods of theory construction, experimental research, and computer simulations. Currently he is engaged in research on social networks, group solidarity, beliefs in paranormal phenomena, and applying complexity theory to social processes. He teaches courses in group processes and theory construction.
Personal links.

Mark S. Mizruchi - link
Professor of Sociology and Business Administration, University of Michigan.

José Luis Molina - link
Professor and Coordinador Programa de Doctorat at Departament d'Antropologia social, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

James Moody - link
Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University's Department of Sociology

Harold J. Morowitz
Robinson Professor in Biology and Natural Philosophy at George Mason University
Books: The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex
Biophysicist Harold Morowitz became a Robinson Professor after a long career of teaching and research at Yale University as Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and serving for five years as Master of Pierson College. The author of several books, Morowitz has written extensively on the thermodynamics of living systems, as well as on popular topics in science. Included in those publications are Mayonnaise and the Origins of Life, Cosmic Joy and Local Pain, The Thermodynamics of Pizza, Entropy and the Magic Flute, and The Kindly Dr. Guillotin. In his current research, Morowitz is investigating the interface of biology and information sciences and continues his exploration of the origins of life. Other books are The Origin of Cellular Life: Metabolism Recapitulates Biogenesis and The Facts of Life (co-authored with James Trefil). He is Staff Scientist and former Director of the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Complexity. His book The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. (source: bio at GMU)

Andrej Mrvar - link
Assistant Professor of Social Science Informatics, University of Ljubljana.

Howard Nixon - link
Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Towson State University

David Obstfeld - link
Assistant Professor, Organization & Strategy, University of California, Irvine

Laurence Prusak
Managing Principal with IBM Consulting Group
Books: In Good Company with Dan Cohen, Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know with Tom Davenport
Larry Prusak is a Managing Principal with IBM Consulting Group in Boston, where he leads the group’s research and consults on organizational knowledge issues. He has extensive consulting experience, within the U.S. and internationally, in helping firms leverage and optimize their information and knowledge resources. (source: bio at Stanford's Center for Work, Technology & Organization)

Robert D. Putnam - link
Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
Books: Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Howard Rheingold - link
Writer, Thought Leader on Virtual Communities and Smart Mobs
Books: Smart Mobs, Smart Mobs website

Bill Richards - link
Professor of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

John P. Scott - link
Professor of Sociology at Essex University, UK
Books: Social Network Analysis: A Handbook

John Skvoretz - link
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of South Florida

Tom A.B. Snijders - link
Professor of Stochastic Models for the Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Faculty of Psychological, Educational, and Sociological Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Bill Stevenson - link
Associate Professor, Organization Studies Department, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Frans N. Stokman - link
Professor of Social Science Research Methodology, ICS, University of Groningen

Steven Strogatz - link
Professor, Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
Books: Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

David Teten
Entrepreneur, Author, Speaker
CEO of Nitron Advisors, an independent research firm which provides institutional investors with access to frontline industry experts; Chairman, Teten Executive Recruiting; Co-Author, The Virtual Handshake: Opening
Doors and Closing Deals Online.

Ryuhei Tsuji - link
Lecturer, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan

Cynthia Typaldos - link
Principle, Typaldos Consulting; Founder/President, Software Product Marketing (SPM) eGroup

Lyle Ungar - link
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania
My research interests include machine learning and data mining, of web pages, consumer purchases, gene expression data, and other large, structured data sets, market-based methods for distributed scheduling and optimization of systems including human and computer agents, recommender systems and collaborative filtering, information extraction, computational biolology and (someday) computer go.

Brian Uzzi - link
Associate Professor of Organization Behavior and Sociology, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Tom Valente - link
Director, Master of Public Health Program, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Stanley Wasserman is Rudy Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics in the Departments of Sociology and Psychology at Indiana. He has held faculty positions at Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois, in the disciplines of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology; in addition, at Illinois, he was a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, and has had visiting appointments at Columbia University and University of Melbourne. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in the 1970's.

He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and an honorary fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been an Associate Editor of a variety of statistics and methodological journals, as well as the Book Review Editor of Chance. His research has been supported over the years by NSF, ONR, and NIMH. He is known for his work on statistical models for social networks and for his text, co-authored with Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. His other books have been published by Sage Publications and Cambridge University Press. He teaches courses on applied statistics and sociological and psychological methods.

At present, he is also Chief Scientist of Visible Path Corporation in New York City, a software firm engaged in developing social network analysis for corporate settings. His spouse is the new Associate Director of Research Administration at the IU School of Medicine. They have two grown sons in Chicago and two airedale terriers, living with them, in downtown Indianapolis.

Duncan J. Watts - link
Associate Professor Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Books: Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Leader of the Small World Project at Columbia, centered on the idea of six degrees.
"My research centers around the development of new models of large, complex networks that capture the general features of networked social systems, and a coherent set of metrics for characterizing them. The overall goal is to explore the role that network structure plays in determining or constraining system behavior, focussing on a few broad problem areas in social science such as information contagion, financial risk management, and organizational design. I am concerned with issues such as systemic robustness and stability with respect to cascading failures, efficient distributed information processing, and effective procedures for conducting global searches in networks using only local information." (source: Columbia faculty page link above)

Barry Wellman - link
Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Etienne Wenger - link
Author, Lecturer, Thought Leader, Pioneer of the "communities of practice" research
Books: Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

Douglas White - link
Professor of Social Science, University of California, Irvine

Joe Whitmeyer - link
Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC - Charlotte

Alvin Wolfe - link
Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology, University of South Florida.
Professor Wolfe uses his background in anthropology to study social networks and how societies interact through their networks. Recent research has looked at networks of social service agencies and at the influence of networks on conflict resolution. He has a wide interest in how people work with one another.