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Robert Manduca

Professor Manduca’s research focuses on urban and regional economic development, asking why some cities and regions prosper while others decline, how federal policy influences urban fortunes, and how neighborhood social and economic conditions shape life outcomes. He studies these topics using computer simulations, spatial clustering methods, network analysis, and data visualization. In other work he ...

Jeffrey Morenoff

Jeffrey D. Morenoff is a professor of sociology, a research professor at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), and a professor of public policy at the Ford School. He is also director of the ISR Population Studies Center. Professor Morenoff’s research interests include neighborhood environments, inequality, crime and criminal justice, the social determinants of health, ...

Andrei Boutyline

Cultural systems are fundamentally structural phenomena, defined by patterns of relations between elements of public representations and individual behaviors and cognitions. However, because such systems are difficult to capture with traditional empirical approaches, they usually remain understudied. In my work, I draw on network analysis, statistics, and computer science to create novel approaches to such ...

Elizabeth Bruch

I am a computational social scientist and sociologist. In addition to my appointments at Michigan, I am an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute and serve on their Science Steering Committee; I also serve on the advisory board for the Social Science Research Council’s Social Data Initiative. The vast amounts of activity data ...

Gerald Davis

My research is broadly concerned with corporate governance and the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether “shareholder capitalism” is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is ...

Jason Owen-Smith

Professor Owen-Smith conducts research on the collective dynamics of large scale networks and their implications for scientific and technological innovation and surgical care. He is the executive director of the Institution for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS, http://iris.isr.umich.edu).  IRIS is a national consortium of research universities who share data and support infrastructure designed to ...

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Andrei Boutyline

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Elizabeth Bruch

Associate Professor, Sociology, LSA Complex Systems, LSA

Gerald Davis

Professor, Management, Ross School of Business Sociology, LSA Institute for Social Research

Robert Manduca

Assistant Professor, Sociology

Jeffrey Morenoff

Professor, Sociology

Jason Owen-Smith

Professor, Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS)Sociology, LSASurvey Research CenterInstitute for Social Research