John McLevey
John McLevey

John McLevey

Professor & Head, Sociology & Criminology
Memorial University · St. John's NL

Hi! I'm John (he/him). I'm Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology & Criminology at Memorial University. Before moving to Memorial, I completed a PhD in Sociology at McMaster University (2013) and was a faculty member at the University of Waterloo for 11 years (2013–2024). I spent the last year of my time at Waterloo on parental leave with my partner Ally and our identical twins, Quinn and Nora.

I work in computational social science, network science, cultural cognition and affect, and quantitative methodology, with substantive interests in political sociology, sociology of science, and environmental social science. My research has been funded by SSHRC and an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation.

Books

All research →
Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis book cover Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis 2nd ed. · Sage, 2023 Doing Computational Social Science book cover Doing Computational Social Science Sage, 2022 The Face-to-Face Principle book cover The Face-to-Face Principle with Collins, Evans, et al. Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms book cover Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms with Stoddart & Mattoni

Selected articles

Social Networks and Anthropogenic Climate Change Social Networks · 2023
Structural Diversity is a Poor Proxy for Information Diversity Social Networks · 2022
A New Method for Computational Cultural Cartography Canadian Review of Sociology · 2022

Teaching

Courses & supervision →
SOCI/CRIM 3040 Quantitative Research Methods
SOCI/CRIM 4420 Networks, Culture, and Social Control
SOCI 6044 Networks, Culture, and Social Control (grad seminar)

From the blog

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Hello World! Feb 3, 2026