Network Analysis and Social Structure

Most recently I have been collaborating with Prof. Giovanni Bernado, an Anthropologist, to extensive examine the social support, influence, and mediation networks among member of a small Tongan Village that he has been visiting and studying for over 10 years.

I aquired my interest in network analysis and structural sociology in graduate school at the University of Chicago, one of the centers for such training. My work first focused in my dissertation on how interests of economic and political actors became part of the legislative agenda of the Chicago Bar Association. Later I modeled using network and structural techniques the structure of decision making among Supreme Court Justices. I also modeled the cognitive structure of subdisciplines of Sociology.