Social Network Analysis at NC State
Fall 2025/Spring 2026 Speaker Series
- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University
- November 20, 2025, 3-4:30p in room 129 of the 1911 building
- Relationships defined by dislike and animosity are common in the social worlds of adolescents. To enhance our understanding of how, with whom, and why these negative social ties develop, the current project focuses on adolescents’ romantic rivalries, or instances where two or more youth are romantically attracted to the same classmate. We adopt a social network approach to study relational patterns of dislike, dating, and “crushes” among 1,919 Dutch adolescents who participated in longitudinal panels of the PEAR study. Results indicate that respondents disliked their romantic rivals at higher rates than expected by chance. Youth with crushes on partnered classmates reported the greatest probabilities of disliking their love interests’ dating partners, while young people who were currently dating disliked their partners’ ex-partners at high rates. Further analyses consider whether disliking romantic rivals is associated with future success in the adolescent dating market. Within certain configurations, disliking romantic rivals increases one’s likelihood of dating the common romantic interest before the end of the school year. Although adolescents can gain status rewards by strategically engaging in negative social relationships, these conflictual relationships culminate in cycles of dislike that predate, outlast, and transcend the romantic dyad.
Neha Gondal, Title TBD
- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University
- February 6, 2026, 3-4:30p in room 129 of the 1911 building
Dustin S. Stoltz, Title TBD
- Assistant Professor, Sociology and Cognitive Science, Lehigh University
- February 13, 2026, 3-4:30p in room 129 of the 1911 building
Previous Events
Peter Ore, “Toward a Social Metrology: Reconciling Quantitative and Interpretive Approaches in the Study of Data”
- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Queens College in the CUNY
- April 14, 2025
Tom R. Leppard, “Givers, Takers, and Reciprocators: Reimagining Individuals and Groups in UK Grime Music”
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Data Science & AI Academy, North Carolina State University
- April 4, 2025
Joe Quinn, “Foraging on Graphs: Adding Agency to Models of Contagion in Networks”
- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina
- March 28, 2025
Christine Mair, “Successfully” Aging “Alone?”: Unequal Global Opportunities and Rising Risks in Family-Based Models of Care Cross-Nationally”
- Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- March 21, 2025
- Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
- December 4, 2024, 2:30-4p, room 129 in the 1911 building
A Brief Introduction to Social Network Analysis and Its Applications
- Tom Leppard and Adam Goldfarb, two-part workshop
- Oct 25 & Nov 1, 2024
Scott Duxbury, “A General Framework for Micro Macro Analysis in Social Networks”
- Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- April 19, 2024
Craig Rawlings, “Ideology and Influence: Sociocognitive Foundations of Belief Change”
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University
- April 12, 2024
Omar Lizardo, “Coasting on Duality: Generalized Similarities, Positional Analysis, and the Correspondence Analysis of Two-Mode Networks”
- LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
- March 29, 2024
Diane Felmlee, “Who Takes the Risks? A Network Analysis of Online Dating”
- Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
- February 16, 2024
Christina Prell, “Which Networks Matter, and at Which Scale? Considering How Social Networks Drive Climate Change and Shape Adaptations”
- Professor in Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Groningen
- April 24, 2023
Ronald Breiger, “Regression Modeling as a Special Case of Network Analysis”
- Regents’ Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
- April 7, 2023
Kathleen Carley, “The Power of High Dimensional Networks”
- Professor in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- February 24, 2023
Emily Erikson, “Network Structure, Specialization, and the Division of Labor”
- Professor of Sociology, Yale University
- February 3, 2023
James Moody, “Advances in Social Network Visualization”
- Robert O. Keohane Professor of Sociology, Duke University
- January 20, 2023
Zachary Brown, “Biblio-NET-rics: Social Network Analysis of Co-Authorship Data”
- Associate Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University
- November 29, 2022