Co-Investigator, Research Project 3, MISM
Professor in Sociology, Duke University
James Moody, PhD, Co-Investigator, is the Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology at Duke University Trinity School of Arts & Sciences. He has published extensively in social networks, methods, and social theory. Dr. Moody’s work has focused on the theoretical foundations of social cohesion and diffusion, with particular emphasis on developing tools and methods for understanding dynamic social networks. He has used network models to help understand school racial segregation, adolescent health, disease spread, economic development, and the development of scientific disciplines.
Dr. Moody's work is funded by the NSF, the NIH, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has appeared in top social science, health, and medical journals. He is the winner of the International Network for Social Network Analysis Freeman Award for scholarly contributions to network analysis, founding director of the Duke Network Analysis Center, and editor of the online Journal of Social Structure. Dr. Moody oversees the design and creation of synthetic contact networks used to simulate epidemics for the MISM Research Project 3.