Professor John McLevey

Contact Information

AA-4055, Department of Sociology & Criminology
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)
Memorial University, St. John's NL, Canada

john.mclevey@uwaterloo.ca
+1 (709) 864-7447

www.johnmclevey.com/
github.com/mclevey/

Research Areas

Computational Social Science ⋅ Networks ⋅ Culture and Cognition ⋅ Emotion and Affect ⋅ Science and Technology ⋅ Political Sociology ⋅ Environmental Sociology ⋅ Quantitative Methodology

Education

2013 | PhD, Sociology
    McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

2009 | MA, Sociology
    McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

2008 | BA (Hons), Sociology & Political Science
    Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada

Academic Appointments

2025 to present | Department Head
    Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
    Memorial University

2024 to present | Full Professor
    Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
    Memorial University

2022, 2023, 2024 | Associate Chair (Undergraduate)
    (Vanessa Schweizer was ACUG during my sabbatical and parental leave)
    Department of Knowledge Integration, Faculty of Environment
    University of Waterloo

2019 to 2024 | Associate Professor (with tenure)
    ADDS Status (Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor)
    Department of Knowledge Integration, Faculty of Environment
    Sociology & Legal Studies, Faculty of Arts
    University of Waterloo

2013 to 2019 | Assistant Professor (tenure track)
    ADDS Status (Approved Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor)
    Department of Knowledge Integration, Faculty of Environment
    Sociology & Legal Studies, Faculty of Arts
    University of Waterloo

Leaves

November 2023 to November 2024 | Parental Leave
    University of Waterloo

January 2023 to August 2023 | Half Sabbatical (6 months)
    University of Waterloo

January 2016 to August 2016 | Half Sabbatical (6 months)
    University of Waterloo

Affiliations

2023 | Visiting Scholar
    Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
    Vancouver, BC, Canada

2019 | Visiting Scholar
    Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore
    Florence, Tuscany, Italy

2014 to Present | WICI Affiliate Researcher
    Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), University of Waterloo
    Waterloo, ON, Canada

2014 to Present | Policy Fellow
    Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA)
    Waterloo, ON, Canada

2018 to Present | Co-Organizer and Instructor for Science Outside the Lab, North
    Forum on Science, Policy, and Society
    Ottawa, Montréal, Vancouver, and Victoria (Canada)

2019 to 2020 | Leadership Team Member
    Knowledge Development and Exchange Hub
    Child and Youth Mental Health Promotion
    Funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada

2014 to 2017 | Board Member
    University of Waterloo Survey Research Centre
    Waterloo, ON, Canada

Books

1. John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds). 2023. The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. Sage: London, UK.
2. John McLevey. 2022. Doing Computational Social Science. Sage: London, UK.
3. Harry Collins, Rob Evans, Martin Innes, Will Mason-Wilkes, Eric Kennedy, and John McLevey. 2022. The Face to Face Principle and the Internet: Science, Trust, Truth and Democracy. Cardfiff University Press: Cardiff, UK.
4. Mark Stoddart, Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey. 2020. Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Is Co-existence Possible Between Oil Exploration and Nature Conservation?. Palgrave MacMillan: London, UK.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. David Tindall, Nina Kolleck, and John McLevey. 2023. "Social Networks and Anthropogenic Climate Change (Special Issue Introduction)." Social Networks.
2. Alexander Graham, John McLevey, Tyler Crick, and Pierson Browne. 2022. "Structural Diversity is a Poor Proxy for Information Diversity: Evidence from 25 Scientific Fields." Social Networks 70: 55-63.
3. John McLevey, Tyler Crick, Pierson Browne, and Darrin Durant. 2022. "A New Method for Computational Cultural Cartography: From Neural Word Embeddings to Transformers and Bayesian Mixture Models." Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie 59(2): 228-250.
4. David Tindall, John McLevey, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, and Alexander Graham. 2022. "Big Data, Computational Social Science, and Other Recent Innovations in Social Network Analysis." Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie 59(2): 271-288.
5. Allyson Stokes, Janice Aurini, Jessica Rizk, Rob Gorbet, and John McLevey. 2022. "Using Robotics to Support the Acquisition of 21^st Century Competencies: Promising (and Practical) Directions." Canadian Journal of Education / Revue Canadienne De l’éducation 45(4): 1141–1170.
6. Jessica Rizk, Janice Aurini, Allyson Stokes, Rob Gorbet, and John McLevey. 2022. "Leading through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Research with Canadian Education Leaders." Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy.
7. Igor Grossman, Oliver Twardus, Michael E. W. Varnum, Eranda Jayawickreme, and John McLevey. 2021. "Expert Predictions of Societal Change: Insights from the World after COVID Project." American Psychologist 77(2): 276–290.
8. Kathryn S. Plaisance, Janet Michaud, and John McLevey. 2021. "Pathways of Influence: Understanding the Impacts of Philosophy of Science in Scientific Domains." Synthese 199: 4865–4896.
9. Mark Stoddart, John McLevey, Vanessa Schweizer, and Catherine Wong. 2020. "Climate Change and Energy Futures: Theoretical Frameworks, Epistemological Issues, and Methodological Perspectives." Society & Natural Resources 33(11): 1331-1338.
10. Kathryn S. Plaisance, Alexander V. Graham, John McLevey, and Janet Michaud. 2019. "Show Me the Numbers: A Quantitative Portrait of the Attitudes, Experiences, and Values of Philosophers of Science." Synthese 198: 4603-4633.
11. Owen Gallupe, John McLevey, and Sarah Brown. 2018. "Selection or Influence? A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Peer and Personal Offending." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 35: 313-335.
12. John McLevey, Alexander Graham, Reid McIlroy-Young, Pierson Browne, and Kathryn S. Plaisance. 2018. "Interdisciplinarity and Insularity in the Diffusion of Knowledge: An Analysis of Disciplinary Boundaries Between Philosophy of Science and the Sciences." Scientometrics 117(1): 331-349.
13. John McLevey and Reid McIlroy-Young. 2017. "Introducing metaknowledge: Software for Computational Research in Information Science, Network Analysis, and Science of Science." The Journal of Informetrics 11: 176-197.
14. Allyson Stokes and John McLevey. 2016. "From Porter to Bourdieu: The Evolving Specialty Structure of English Canadian Sociology, 1966- 2014." Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie 53(2): 176-202.
15. John McLevey. 2015. "Understanding Policy Research in Liminal Spaces: Think Tank Responses to Diverging Principles of Legitimacy." Social Studies of Science 45(2): 270-293.
16. John McLevey. 2014. "Think Tanks, Funding, and the Politics of Policy Knowledge in Canada." Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie 51(1): 54-75.

Book Chapters

1. Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, and John McLevey. 2023. "Inferential Network Clustering with Hierarchical Bayesian Stochastic Blockmodels." In John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. Sage: London, UK. [open access]
2. Pierson Browne, Adam Howe, Yasmin Koop-Monteiro, Yixi Yang, and John McLevey. 2023. "Scientific Software for Network Analysis." In John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. Sage: London, UK.
3. John Scott, John McLevey, and Peter J. Carrington. 2023. "Introduction." In John McLevey, John Scott, and Peter J. Carrington (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, Volume 2. Sage: London, UK. [open access]
4. John McLevey, Allyson Stokes, and Amelia Howard. 2023. "L’influence inégale de Bourdieu sur la sociologie canadienne anglophone (French translation of 'Pierre Bourdieu's Uneven Influence on Anglophone Canadian Sociology')." In Amín Pérez and Franck Poupeau (Eds.), Bourdieu dans les Amériques. Genèses et usage d'une internationale scientifique. l'IHEAL: Aubervilliers, France.
5. John McLevey and Tyler Crick. 2021. "Machine Learning and Neural Network Language Modelling for Sentiment Analysis." In Luke Sloan and Anabel Quan-Haase (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research. Sage: London, UK.
6. John McLevey, Pierson Browne, and Tyler Crick. 2021. "Reproducibility, Transparency, and Principled Data Processing." In Uwe Engel and Anabel Quan-Haase (Eds.), Handbook of Computational Social Science. Routledge: New York, US.
7. David Tindall, Mark Stoddart, John McLevey, Lorien Jasny, Dana R. Fisher, Jennifer Earl, and Mario Diani. 2021. "The Challenges and Opportunities of Ego-Network Analysis of Social Movements and Collective Action." In Mario Small, Brea Perry, Bernice Pescosolido, and Edward Smith (Eds.), Personal Networks: Classic Readings and New Directions in Ego-centric Analysis. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
8. John McLevey, Allyson Stokes, and Amelia Howard. 2018. "Pierre Bourdieu's Uneven Influence on Anglophone Canadian Sociology." In Thomas Medvetz and Jeff Sallaz (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
9. John McLevey and Ryan Deschamps. 2018. "The Sociology of Public Policy Formation and Implementation." In William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology. Sage: London, UK.

Edited Special Issues

1. David Tindall, Nina Kolleck, and John McLevey (Eds.). 2023. "Social Networks and Anthropogenic Climate Change." Social Networks.
2. Mark Stoddart, John McLevey, Vanessa Schweizer, and Catherine Wong (Eds.). 2020. "Climate Change and Energy Futures." Society & Natural Resources.

Research Reports

1. John McLevey, Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, and Jillian Anderson. 2020. "Applied Computer Vision for Disinformation Research: An Analysis of Twitter's Elections Integrity Data on Russian and Chinese Information Operations." Prepared for the Crime & Security Research Institute, Cardiff University.
2. John McLevey, Pierson Browne, and Tyler Crick. 2020. "Online Deception & Dynamic Narrative Networks." Prepared for the Crime & Security Research Institute, Cardiff University.
3. Rob Gorbet, Janice Aurini, Jessica Risk, Allyson Stokes, John McLevey, and Nicole Figueiredo. 2020. "The COVID-19 Pandemic and Canadian Schooling." Prepared for Education Onward Council in consultation with Fair-Chance Learning.
4. Janice Aurini, Rob Gorbet, John McLevey, Jessica Rizk, and Allyson Stokes (Alphabetical). 2019. "White Paper on Ed-Tech Connect: An Intersectoral Workshop on Education, Technology, and 21^st Century Labour." Funded by SSHRC Connections Grant.
5. Janice Aurini, John McLevey, Allyson Stokes, and Rob Gorbet. 2017. "Classroom Robotics and Acquisition of 21^st Century Competencies: An Action Research Study of Nine Ontario School Boards." Prepared for the Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE) and the Ministry of Education, Ontario.

Replication Kits & Supplements

1. Coming soon...

Manuscripts in Progress

1. John McLevey. "What makes you say that? Reconstruction and recovery in semantic/belief network analysis." In Progress.
2. Owen Gallupe, Noam Gidron, and John McLevey. "Unpacking the crime-generating effect of exclusionary political rhetoric." Under Review.
3. John McLevey, Tyler Crick, Darrin Durant, and Karmvir Padda. "How Political Beliefs Form and Evolve in Interaction Networks: A Generative Stance Model." In Progress.
4. John McLevey. Reproducible Research and Generative Modelling for Social and Cognitive Scientists. In Progress.

Other Publications

1. John McLevey. 2021. "Probabilistic Topic Models." In Janice Aurini, Melanie Heath, and Stephanie Howells. 2021. The How To of Qualitative Research. London, UK: Sage
2. John McLevey. 2019. "Epistemic and Evidential Cultures." In Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Richard Williams, and Alex Cernat (Eds). Sage Research Methods Foundations Online
3. John McLevey. 2019. "Review of David Johnson (2017) A Fractured Profession: Commercialization and Conflict in Academic Science." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Review published in American Journal of Sociology. 125(1)

Research Grants

1. Faculty Research Startup Grant
   John McLevey (PI). 2024. Memorial University (Internal). $15,000
   
2. Modern Man-ifestations: An Interdisciplinary Mixed-Methods Investigation of Misogyny and Gender-Based Violence
   James Kim (PI). 2020 to 2025. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. $0
   CI: Toni Serafini.
   CO: John McLevey.
3. Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
   John McLevey (PI). 2020 to 2025. SSHRC Insight Grant. $219,003
   CI: Anabel Quan-Haase, David Tindall.
   CO: Darrin Durant, Deena Abul-Fottouh, Owen Gallupe, Martin Innes.
4. Disinformation, Democracy, and Online Political Deliberation
   John McLevey (PI). 2020 to 2021. Digital Citizenship Initiative, Department of Canadian Heritage. $20,000
   CI: Anabel Quan-Haase, David Tindall.
   CO: Darrin Durant, Deena Abul-Fottouh, Owen Gallupe, and Martin Innes.
5. Engaging Science with Philosophy: Best Practices for Fostering Effective Collaboration
   Kathryn S. Plaisance (PI). 2020 to 2025. SSHRC Insight Grant. $154,406
   CO: Kevin Elliott, Michael O'Rourke, Lisbeth Berbary, and John McLevey.
6. An Intersectoral Workshop on Education, Technology, and 21^st Century Labour
   Janice Aurini (PI). 2019. SSHRC Connection Grant with Contributions from the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. $16,400 + matching funds
   CI: Allyson Stokes, John McLevey, Jessica Rizk, and Rob Gorbet.
   
7. Climate Change and Energy Futures Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities for Global and Interdisciplinary Research
   Mark Stoddart (PI). 2018-2019. SSHRC Connection Grant with Contributions from the University of Waterloo and Memorial University. $24,373 + $14,399 in matching funds
   CI: John McLevey, John Sandlos, Vanessa Schweizer, and Catherine Wong.
   
8. Making Sense of Climate Action: Understanding Social Mobilization to Curb Anthropogenic Climate Change Through Advances in Social Network Analysis
   David Tindall (PI). 2016 to 2022. SSHRC Insight Grant. $282,672
   CI: John McLevey, Mark Stoddart.
   CO: Mario Diani, Jennifer Earl, Dana R Fisher, Philip Leifeld, Andrew Jorgenson, Philippe Le Billon, Don Grant, and Moses Boudourides.
9. Information and Idea Diffusion in an Open Source Collaboration Network
   John McLevey (PI). 2016 to 2020. Early Researcher Award (ERA), Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation. $150,000
   
10. Remaking the Boundaries of Open and Proprietary Science: A Longitudinal Study of Biomedical Research and Development Networks in Canada
    John McLevey (PI). 2016 to 2018. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. $67,790
    CO: Owen Gallupe, Martin Cooke.
11. Increasing the Impact of Philosophy of Science in Scientific Domains
    Kathryn S. Plaisance (PI). 2016 to 2918. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. $59,302
    CI: John McLevey.
    
12. Challenges and Opportunities for Governance of Socio-Ecological Systems in Comparative Perspective
    John McLevey (PI). 2015 to 2016. BSIA Major Workshops Grant. $8,400
    CI: Vanessa Schweizer.
    
13. The Oil-Tourism Interface and Social-Ecological Change in the North Atlantic
    Mark Stoddart (PI). 2015 to 2020. SSHRC Insight Grant. $188,432
    CI: John McLevey.
    
14. Collaborative Design in Online Networks
    John McLevey (PI). 2014 to 2016. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. $78,814
    
15. Faculty Research Startup Grant
    John McLevey (PI). 2013. University of Waterloo (Internal). $15,000
    

Teaching Grants

1. 2015 to 2016. "A Data-Driven and Interactive Approach to Enhancing Student Learning about Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Production." LITE Seed Grant, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo. $4,765.20.

Awards and Scholarships

1. 2017. Outstanding Performance Award.
   University of Waterloo
2. 2010 to 2013. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
   SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship (Category A) $105,000
3. 2010 to 2011. Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
   Province of Ontario $15,000 (declined)
4. 2009 to 2013. PhD Graduate Scholarship.
   McMaster University $52,000 (declined)
5. 2009 to 2010. Ontario Graduate Fellowship.
   McMaster University $12,000 + $3,000 Sociology Department Top Up
6. 2009. University Gold Medal for Excellence in Sociology.
   Memorial University

Research Contracts

1. Allyson Stokes and John McLevey. 2025. "Equity and Inclusion in Organized Sports in Newfoundland and Labrador." Project with SportNL.
2. John McLevey. 2020. "Applied Computer Vision and Ensemble Machine Learning for Disinformation Research." Project for the Crime & Security Research Institute (now the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute), Cardiff University.
3. John McLevey. 2020. "Automated Detection of 'Bursty' Concepts, Claims, and Narratives in Social Media Data." Project for the Crime & Security Research Institute (now the Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute), Cardiff University.
4. Janice Aurini, John McLevey, and Rob Gorbet. 2016 to 2017. "Assessing the Impact of Classroom-Integrated Robotics on the Cultivation of 21^st Century Competencies." Project for the Council of Ontario Directors of Education (CODE) and the Ontario Ministry of Education.

Scientific Software

Active Development

1. birss | Bayesian inference for reconstructing shared schemas. Developed by John McLevey. https://github.com/mclevey/birss
   
   
2. unicore | Process, link, and model institutional data. Developed by John McLevey. https://github.com/mclevey/unicore
   
   
3. clark | Templates, config, cleaning, and syncing utilities. Developed by John McLevey. https://github.com/mclevey/clark
   
   
4. turtlestack | Manage data stored with DigitalOcean Spaces (S3-compatible). Developed by John McLevey. https://github.com/mclevey/turtlestack
   
   Last commit (0bee315): May 29, 2025
   

Maintained, Occasional Updates

1. dcss | Supplements McLevey (2022). Developed by John McLevey, Tyler Crick, Pierson Browne. https://github.com/UWNETLAB/dcss_supplementary
   
   Last commit (ee41bc7): Aug 13, 2024
   
2. metaknowledge (v3.4.1) | Data processing for bibliometric and 'science of science' research. Developed by Reid McIlroy-Young and John McLevey. https://github.com/UWNETLAB/metaknowledge
   
   Last commit (05ee6a3): Feb 9, 2022
   
3. pdpp (v0.5.1) | Principled data processing with Python. Developed by Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, Rachel Wood, and John McLevey. https://github.com/UWNETLAB/pdpp
   
   Last commit (5e15d43): Aug 5, 2024
   

Conference Presentations

1. John McLevey. 2026-01. "What makes you say that? Causal assumptions and generative modelling in semantic/belief network analysis." Symposium on Computational Social Science. Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada.
2. John McLevey. 2022-07. "Political Polarization and Probabilistic Belief Network Analysis." Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Melbourne, Australia.
3. John McLevey. 2019-10. "Disinformation, Democracy, and Influence in Online Political Discussion Networks." Disinformation Symposium, hosted by the Cardiff University Crime & Security Research Institute. Hensol Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales UK.
4. Mark Stoddart, Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey. 2019-10. "Industrial Development and Eco-Tourisms: Is Co-existence Possible between Oil Exploration and Nature Conservation." Department of Geography Blue Box Seminar Series. Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
5. John McLevey. 2019-07. "What do open online communities of specialists need tacit knowledge for anyway?" SEESHOP. Helsinki, Finland.
6. John McLevey, Alexander Graham, Tyler Crick, and Pierson Browne. 2019-06. "Measuring Social and Cognitive Distance in Collaboration Networks Constructed From Observational Data." Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (Session: Advances in Socio-Semantic Network Analysis). Montréal, QC, Canada.
7. Janice Aurini, Allyson Stokes, Jessica Rizk, John McLevey, and Rob Gorbet. 2019-06. "How Do Educational Innovations Diffuse and Persist?" Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (Session: Networked Innovation). Montréal, QC, Canada.
8. Pierson Browne, Tyler Crick, Alexander Graham, and John McLevey. 2019-06. "Cognitive Diversity and the Production of High Impact Science." Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (Session: Networked Innovation). Montréal, QC, Canada.
9. Janice Aurini, Allyson Stokes, Jessica Rizk, John McLevey, and Rob Gorbet. 2019-06. "How Do Educational Innovations Diffuse and Persist?" Canadian Sociological Association Meetings (Session: Sociology of Education). University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, Canada.
10. John McLevey. 2019-04. "Measuring Belief Homophily and Cognitive Similarity in Social and Political Networks to Advance the Advocacy Coalition Framework (and Other Policy Theories)." Climate Change and Social Networks Workshop. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
11. Mark Stoddart, Alice Mattoni, and John McLevey. 2018-10. "Climate Change and Contact Points between Offshore Oil and Nature-based Tourism in Northern Coastal Societies." Arctic Circle Assembly. Reykjavik, Iceland.
12. John McLevey, Alexander Graham, and Pierson Browne. 2018-06. "Remaking the boundaries of open and proprietary science: A multiple networks analysis of patenting and publishing in biomedical science." Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Utrecht, Netherlands.
13. Alexander V. Graham, Pierson Browne, Jeffery M. Barrett, and John McLevey. 2018-06. "RankDir: A New ERGM Term for Improving Goodness of Fit in Exponential Random Graph Models of Directed Acyclic Graphs." Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Utrecht, Netherlands.
14. John McLevey and Alexander V. Graham. 2018-04. "Smart Collaboration & Boundary Spanning for High Impact Climate Science." 3rd Spring Campus, University Alliance for Sustainability. Freie Universität Berlin. Berlin, Germany.
15. John McLevey. 2017-08. "Environmental crises, policy, and scientific change: Insights from a computational model." American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting. Montréal, QC, Canada.
16. John McLevey and Reid McIlroy-Young. 2017-06. "metaknowledge: open source software for networks research on science." Sunbelt, Annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Beijing, China.
17. John McLevey. 2017-05. "Panelist, Assessing Pierre Bourdieu's Legacy." Panel organized by the joint culture/theory research cluster at the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) annual meeting. Ryerson University. Toronto, ON, Canada.
18. John McLevey, Mark Stoddart, and Yixi Yang. 2017-05. "The Oil-Tourism Interface in International Media: A Systematic Comparison of Norway, Scotland, and Newfoundland and Labrador." Canadian Sociological Association annual meeting. Ryerson University. Toronto, ON, Canada.
19. John McLevey. 2017-05. "How do face-to-face and virtual networks shape the development of specialist expertise?" SEESHOP. Geneva, Switzerland.
20. Vanina Leschziner, John McLevey, and Neil McLaughlin. 2016-08. "The American Fame Game: Academic Status and Public Renown in Post-War Social Sciences." Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology Session. Seattle, WA, USA.
21. John McLevey. 2016-05. "Expertise and Experience in Dynamic Social Networks: Developing A Co-evolution Model for SEE." SEESHOP. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
22. John McLevey, Katie Plaisance, Reid McIlroy-Young, and Alexander Graham. 2016-04. "Is there a citation penalty for scientifically relevant philosophy of science?" Sunbelt, annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Newport Beach, CA.
23. Owen Gallupe, Sarah Brown, and John McLevey. 2015-11. "Selection or Influence? A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Peer and Personal Offending." Annual Meetings of the American Society of Criminology. Washington, DC, USA.
24. John McLevey. 2015-08. "Conflict and Cooperation in Large Collaboration Networks: An Analysis of Linux Kernel Development." Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Sociology of Technology session. Chicago, IL.
25. John McLevey. 2015-06. "Conflict and Cooperation in Large Collaboration Networks: An Analysis of Linux Kernel Development." Sunbelt, annual meetings of the International Network for Social Network Analysis. Brighton, UK.
26. John McLevey. 2015-05. "Conflict and Cooperation in Large Collaboration Networks: An Analysis of Linux Kernel Development." Annual Meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Session: Innovation in Social Research: New Data, New Questions, New Analytics. Ottawa, ON, Canada.
27. John McLevey, Amelia Howard, Alexander Graham, and Tiffany Lin. 2015-05. "Expertise, Stratification, and the Uncertain Democracy of Large Free / Open Source Developer Communities." SEESHOP. Cardiff, Wales, UK.
28. John McLevey. 2014-08. "Think Tanks in the Space of Opinion: Tactics for Creating Uncertainty about the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA). San Francisco, CA, USA.
29. John McLevey. 2014-08. "Think Tanks in the Space of Opinion: Tactics for Creating Uncertainty about the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change." Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA). San Francisco, CA, USA.
30. John McLevey. 2014-06. "Struggling Over Climate Expertise: 'Consensus' and 'Skepticism' in the Space of Opinion." SEESHOP / Communities of Integration. Waterloo, ON, Canada.
31. Allyson Stokes and John McLevey. 2014-05. "The Invisible Colleges of Sociology in Canada: A Network Analysis, 1995-2014." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada.
32. John McLevey. 2014-04. "Funding, Fame, and Politics in the Think Tank World." The Science Policy Interface: International Comparisons. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
33. Vanina Leschziner, Neil McLaughlin, and John McLevey. 2014-04. "The American Fame Game: Public Renown and Academic Status in the Social Sciences." Public Intellectuals and Power. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
34. John McLevey. 2013-10. "Comments on papers in the session 'Chastened Dreams and New Departures: American Scientific Culture(s) in Ferment from the 1960s to 1980s'." Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS), Total Money Makeover: Culture and the Economization of Everything. Waterloo, ON, Canada.
35. John McLevey. 2013-08. "How do Think Tanks Produce and Promote Policy Ideas?" Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Section: Sociology of Knowledge, Session: Knowledge and the State. New York, New York, US.
36. John McLevey. 2013-06. "Think Tanks on Climate Change: Moral Views, Scientific Credibility, and Political Contexts." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA), Session: The Sociology of Climate Change. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
37. Vanina Leschziner, Neil McLaughlin, and John McLevey. 2013-06. "The American Fame Game: Academic Status and Public Renown in the Social Sciences." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA), Session: The Role of Public Intellectualism in Academe. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.
38. John McLevey. 2012-05. "Epistemic Cultures in the Production of Policy Expertise." Qualitative Analysis Conference. Memorial University, St John's, NL, Canada.
39. John McLevey. 2012-05. "Translation Work and the Marketing of Policy Expertise: Leads from Research on Canadian Think Tanks." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA), Session: Sociology of Science. University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
40. John McLevey. 2011-08. "Rhythms and Reason Giving: Understanding Academic Involvement in Canadian Think Tanks." Annual meetings of the American Sociology Association (ASA). Las Vegas, NV, USA.
41. John McLevey. 2011-04. "Rhythms and Reason Giving: Understanding Academic Involvement in Canadian Think Tanks." Invited Participant, NYLON workshop on "Cultures of Circulation". Ottawa, ON, Canada.
42. John McLevey. 2011-02. "Rhythms and Reason Giving: Understanding Academic Involvement in Canadian Think Tanks." Annual meetings of the Eastern Sociology Society (ESS), Session: Constructing Workplaces and Professional Domains. Philadelphia, PA, US.
43. John McLevey. 2010-06. "Contesting Education: A Comparative Frame Analysis of Opinion Pieces by The Fraser Institute and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada.
44. Lisa Kowalchuk, Neil McLaughlin, John McLevey. 2010-06. "Public Intellectual Work: Uses of the Canadian Op-Ed Column." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada.
45. John McLevey. 2010-05. "How and Why Do Academics Get Involved with Think Tanks?" Qualitative Analysis Conference. Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON, Canada.
46. John McLevey. 2010-05. "Contesting Education: A Comparative Frame Analysis of Opinion Pieces by The Fraser Institute and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives." Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference. Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, ON, Canada.
47. John McLevey. 2009-05. "Understanding Marginality, Ambiguous Outcomes, and Failure in Social Movements Research and the Sociology of Ideas." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociology Association (CSA). Carleton University, Ottawa ON, Canada.

Invited Talks

1. John McLevey. 2025-01. "'I don't mean to be rude, but who are you?' Networks, friends, and mentors in becoming a computational social scientist." SOFA Series. Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada.
2. John McLevey. 2024-04. "What makes you say that? Rethinking causal connections in cultural cognition and political belief network analysis." Department of Sociology. Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada.
3. John McLevey. 2022-03. "Do liberals drink lattes across the multiverse? Cultural learning, social influence, and mass opinion polarization.." Knowledge Integration Seminar Series. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
4. John McLevey. 2022-01. "Reproducibility and Principled Data Processing for Computational Science.." Toronto Data Workshop on Reproducibility. Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
5. John McLevey. 2021-11. "Modelling Meaning: Recent Advances in Computational Text Analysis and Why They Matter for Sociology.." Department of Sociology Speaker Series. Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada.
6. John McLevey. 2019-12. "Democracies in Crisis? Online Deception, Disinformation, and Political Polarization.." Science and Technology Studies Seminar Series. York University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
7. John McLevey. 2017-11. "Gender discrimination in open source software development: findings from a large-scale audit study.." Guest speaker in course "Gender Equity". University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
8. John McLevey. 2017-11. "A Primer on Computational Sociology.." Guest speaker in Sociology Theory grad seminar, Sociology & Legal Studies. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
9. John McLevey. 2017-05. "Panelist on SSHRC's new data management policies: what do they mean for your knowledge making practices?." Annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA). Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
10. John McLevey. 2016-10. "Open Science and the Uncertain Future of University-Industry Partnerships in Biomedical Research and Development.." Environment Seminar Series: Open Data, Open Science. Faculty of Environment. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
11. John McLevey. 2016-03. "Network Structure and the 'Chain of Trust' in Linux Development: Lessons for Working with Data Scraped from the Web.." Guest speaker in Research Methods class, Department of Sociology. Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
12. John McLevey and Patrick Famaran (UG student). 2016-03. "Using Technology to Facilitate Collaboration." Centre for Teaching Excellence Educational Technology Week. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
13. John McLevey. 2016-03. "Enhancing Student Learning by Bringing Data into the Classroom.." GREEN TEA speaker series, Faculty of Environment. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
14. John McLevey. 2014-12. "Collaborating On-Line: An Analysis of Communication Networks for Linux Kernel Developers.." Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) Speaker Series. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
15. John McLevey. 2014. "Where do good ideas come from? A social network perspective on creativity and innovation.." Waterloo Unlimited. .
16. John McLevey. 2013-09. "Think Tanks, Funding, and Politics of Policy Knowledge.." Knowledge Integration Seminar Series, Faculty of Environment. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

PhD Students

Active

Committee Member for Felix Morrow
    Sociology, Memorial University
    Supervisor: Mark Stoddart
    Committee: John McLevey, ...

Committee Member for Tyler Crick (ABD)
    Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
    Supervisor: John McLevey (with Owen Gallupe since Dec. 2024)
    Committee: Owen Gallupe and Peter Carrington

Committee Member for Alexander (Sasha) Graham (ABD)
    Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
    Supervisor: John McLevey (with Owen Gallupe since Dec. 2024)
    Committee: Peter Carrington and Goetz Hoeppe

Committee Member for Jessica Gill (ABD)
    Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
    Supervisor: Rashmee Singh
    Committee: Andrea Quinlan and John McLevey

Committee Member for Geisha Sanchez (ABD)
    Geography & Environmental Management
    Supervisor: Sarah Burch
    Committee: Bipashyee Ghosh, Olaf Weber, and John McLevey

Committee Member for Mark Shakespear (ABD)
    Sociology, University of British Columbia
    Supervisor: David Tindall
    Committee: K Harrison, A Jorgenson, M Stoddart, and J McLevey

Completed

1. Committee Member for Karmvir Padda (2025)
       Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
       Supervisor: John McLevey (with Owen Gallupe since Dec. 2024)
       Committee: Veronica Kitchen, Lai-Tze Fan
2. Committee Member for Yasmin Koop-Monteiro (2025)
       Sociology, University of British Columbia
       Supervisor: David Tindall
       Committee: Mark Stoddart and John McLevey
3. Committee Member for Yixi Yang (2024)
       Sociology, Memorial University
       Supervisor: Mark Stoddart
       Committee: John McLevey and David Tindall
4. Committee Member for Emerson LaCroix (2024)
       Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
       Supervisor: Janice Aurini
       Committee: John McLevey and Stephanie Howells
5. Supervisor for Pierson Browne (2023)
       Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
       Supervisor: John McLevey
       Committee: Owen Gallupe and Peter Carrington
6. Committee Member for Peter Duggins (2023)
       Systems Design Engineering
       Supervisor: Chris Eliasmith
       Committee: Bryan Tripp, Kerstin Dautenhahn, and John McLevey
7. Committee Member for Adam Howe (2022)
       Sociology, University of British Columbia
       Supervisor: David Tindall
       Committee: Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Rima Wilkes, and John McLevey
8. Committee Member for François Lapachelle (2022)
       Sociology, University of British Columbia
       Supervisor: Beth Hirsh
       Committee: David Tindall and John McLevey
9. Committee Member for Julie Cooke (2022)
       School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development
       Supervisor: Jennifer Lynes
       Committee: Steve Quilley and John McLevey
10. Committee Member for Rod Missaghian (2020)
        Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
        Supervisor: Janice Aurini
        Committee: Linda Quirke and John McLevey
11. Committee Member for Brittany Etmanski (2019)
        Sociology and Legal Studies
        Supervisor: Janice Aurini
        Committee: Owen Gallupe and John McLevey
12. Committee Member for Moutasem Zakkar (2019)
        Applied Health Sciences
        Supervisor: Craig Janes, Samantha Meyer
        Committee: Plinio Morita, Daniel Lizotte, John McLevey
13. Committee Member for Noorin Manji (2018)
        Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
        Supervisor: Lorne Dawson
        Committee: Janice Aurini and John McLevey
14. Committee Member for Michael Clarke (2016)
        Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
        Supervisor: Kieran Bonner
        Committee: David Goodwin and John McLevey

Masters Students

Completed

1. Supervisor for Nermeen Zia Islam (2024)
   MA, Balsillie School of International Affairs.
2. Committee Member for Svetlana Kopan (2022)
   MA, Sociology and Legal Studies.
3. Reader for Nicholas Brendan, MD (2018)
   MSc, School of Public Health Sciences.
4. Committee Member for Sarah Tang (2018)
   MSc, School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development.
5. Committee Member for Emerson LaCroix (2018)
   MA, Sociology and Legal Studies.
6. Supervisor for Alexander V. Graham (2017)
   MA, Sociology and Legal Studies.
7. Reader for Junyi (Jill) Wang (2017)
   MSc, Geography and Environmental Management.
8. Reader for Stuart Anderson (2017)
   MA, Anthropology.
9. Reader for Chen Chen (2016)
   MSc, Geography and Environmental Management.

Research Assistants (HQP)

1. 2026. Graduate RAs: Tyler Crick (1 semester).
2. 2025. Graduate RAs: Felix Morrow (1 semester), Karmvir Padda (1 semester), Tyler Crick (1 semester).
3. 2023. Graduate RAs: Karmvir Padda (1 semester), Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters).
4. 2022. Graduate RAs: Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters).
5. 2021. Graduate RAs: Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters).
6. 2020. Graduate RAs: Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters). Undergraduate RAs: Alex de Witt (3 semesters), Alexis Foss Hill (3 semesters), Harrison Lobb (1 semester).
7. 2019. Graduate RAs: Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters). Undergraduate RAs: Alex de Witt (1 semester), Alexis Foss Hill (1 semester), Jason Kurian (1 semester).
8. 2018. Graduate RAs: Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters), Yixi Yang (3 semesters), Brittany Etmanski (1 semester), Janet Michaud (1 semester). Undergraduate RAs: Mumtahin Monzoor (1 semester), Rachel Wood (2 semesters).
9. 2017. Graduate RAs: Tyler Crick (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters), Yixi Yang (3 semesters), Cathlene Hillier (2 semesters), Janet Michaud (1 semester). Undergraduate RAs: Mumtahin Monzoor (1 semester), Jillian Anderson (2 semesters), Joel Becker (2 semesters), Steve McColl (2 semesters).
10. 2016. Graduate RAs: Brittany Etmanski (3 semesters), Pierson Browne (3 semesters), Yixi Yang (3 semesters), Cathlene Hillier (3 semesters), Amelia Howard (2 semesters), Alexander Graham (3 semesters). Undergraduate RAs: Tahnee Prior (2 semesters), Jillian Anderson (2 semesters), Steve McColl (2 semesters), Joel Becker (2 semesters), Reid McIlroy-Young (3 semesters).
11. 2015. Graduate RAs: Amelia Howard (1 semester), Tahnee Prior (1 semester). Undergraduate RAs: Alexander Graham (3 semesters), Tiffany Lin (1 semester), Reid McIlroy-Young (2 semesters).
12. 2014. Graduate RAs: Janet Michaud (1 semester), Amelia Howard (3 semesters), Benjamin Nelson (1 semester). Undergraduate RAs: Tiffany Lin (1 semester), Evaleen Hellinga (2 semesters), Alexander V. Graham (3 semesters), 46 KI students (1 day).
13. 2013. Graduate RAs: Skaidra Puodziunas (1 semester), Alexander V. Graham (1 semester), Evaleen Hellinga (1 semester).

Methods & Scientific Computing Workshops

1. John McLevey. 2026. Introduction to Topic Modeling. Workshop instructed at the Symposium on Computational Social Science at Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, in January 2026. 2 hours.
2. John McLevey. 2025. Introduction to Computational Social Science with Python. GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne Germany. 5 days.
3. John McLevey. 2024. Introduction to Computational Social Science with Python. GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne Germany. Course materials co-designed with Johannes Gruber (University of Amsterdam), who teaches the R course. 5 days.
4. Eric Kennedy and John McLevey. 2018-2023 (paused during covid). Science Outside the Lab (SOtL) North. A week long intensive course in science policy held annually in Ottawa and Montréal or Vancouver and Victoria. Each course cohort is ~ 14 graduate students from science and engineering disciplines across Canada. 1 week each.
5. John McLevey and Jillian Anderson. 2020. Working with Digital Behavioural Data. GESIS Spring Seminar, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne Germany. 5 days.
6. John McLevey. 2019. Using Network Analysis to (Partially) Automate Literature Reviews. Transylvania Summer School in Research Methods. 1 day.
7. John McLevey. 2019. Introduction to Big Data and Automated Text Analysis for Social Scientists. University of British Columbia, Department of Sociology. 2 days.
8. John McLevey. 2019. (Partially) Automating Literature Reviews for Knowledge Synthesis and Discovery. University of Waterloo. 2 days.
9. John McLevey. 2019. How to Analyze Networks with R. University of Waterloo. 2 days.
10. John McLevey. 2019. Automated Content Analysis for Social Scientists. University of Waterloo. 1 day.

Undergraduate Thesis Supervision

1. Harrison Lobb (2019-2020)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
2. Jessica Clark (2019-2020)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
3. Aidan Power (2019-2020)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
4. Jessilyn Wolfe (2018-2019)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
5. Jason Kurian (2018-2019)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
6. Rachel Wood (2017-2018)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
7. Jillian Anderson (2016-2017)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
8. Julia Yaroshinsky (2015-2016)
   Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
9. Tiffany Lin (2014-2015)
   Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
10. Ben Carr (2014-2015)
    Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo
11. Christina Minji Chung (2013-2014)
    Sociology & Legal Studies, University of Waterloo
12. Chelsea Mills (2013-2014)
    Knowledge Integration, University of Waterloo

Professional Service

• 2019-2023Co-organizer (with Rochelle Côté) and liaison with the Canadian Sociological Association for the Social Networks Research Cluster
• 2016-2019Communications Officer, Executive Council Member, Canadian Sociological Association
• 2019Member of the Scientific Committee for Sunbelt XXXIX Conference in Montréal, International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
• 2014-2019Organizer and liaison with the Canadian Sociological Association for the Sociology of Science, Technology, and Knowledge Research Cluster

Conference Sessions Organized

• 2024Sessions on Network Approaches to Attitudes and Beliefs at the 2024 Sunbelt meetings in Edinburgh, Scotland. Co-organized with Claudia Zucca, Mario Diani, and Lorien Jasny.
• 2022Sessions on Social Networks and Climate Change at the 2022 Sunbelt meetings in Melbourne, Australia. Co-organized with David Tindall and Mark Stoddart.
• 2020Sessions on Disinformation, Computational Methods, Climate Change, and Social Movements at the 2020 Sunbelt meetings in Paris, France (held remotely).
• 2019Social Networks and Sociology panel (with Dr. Rochelle Côté), CSA.
• 2019Sessions for Social Networks Research Cluster, CSA.
• 2019Sessions for Sociology of Science, Technology, and Knowledge Research Cluster, CSA.
• 2017Practical Advice on Communicating Sociological Research panel, CSA. Panelists: Rima Wilkes, Michael Haan, Karen Robson, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Sarah Wilkens-Laflamme, and Karen Foster as panelists.
• 2017Sociology of Science and Knowledge, CSA.
• 2016Sociology of Science and Knowledge, CSA.
• 2015Political Sociology of Science, CSA.
• 2015Sociology of Science, CSA.
• 2014Sociology of Technology, CSA.
• 2014Sociology of Culture (with Dr. Allyson Stokes), CSA.

Peer Review

Peer Reviewing - Academic Journals

• Nature Communications
• American Journal of Sociology
• American Sociological Review
• Social Networks
• Network Science
• Canadian Review of Sociology
• Science and Public Policy
• Scientometrics
• Sociological Theory
• Social Studies of Science
• Canadian Journal of Sociology
• Methodological Innovations
• Acta Sociologica
• Society & Natural Resources

Peer Reviewing - Books

• 1 book manuscript for Sage, UK. Quantitative research methods series.
• 1 book manuscript for Sage, UK. Quantitative research methods series.

Peer Reviewing / Evaluation - Grants

• 2022Peer Reviewer for the 2022 SSHRC Insight Grant Awards Competition (Multi-disciplinary).
• 2019Peer Reviewer for the 2019 SSHRC Insight Grant Awards Competition (Multi-disciplinary).
• 2018Evaluator for 2017 SSHRC Insight Development Grants Competition.
• 2017Observer for the 2018 SSHRC Postdoctoral Awards Competition.

University Service

Memorial University

• 2026Contributions to the Memorial University Data Excellence project lead by Bill Downey in the VP Academic / Provost's Office.
• 2025Data for HSS data portal and report, with Meghan Burchell. Used to inform Dean Hurley's (2024) State of HSS address and the work done of 6 faculty-level committees formed in response.

University of Waterloo

• 2022-2023Knowledge Integration Department Chair Search and Selection Committee
• 2023-PresentAssociate Chair (Undergraduate), Department of Knowledge Integration. (Vanessa Schweizer is interim Associate Chair while I am on parental leave.)
• 2022 (07-12)Associate Chair (Undergraduate), Department of Knowledge Integration.
• 2021-2022Member of the Administrative Committee, Faculty of Environment.
• 2021-2022Chair of the Environment Faculty Council, Faculty of Environment.
• 2019-PresentLiaison between the Faculty of Environment and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, University of Waterloo.
• 2020-2022Faculty Association University of Waterloo (FAUW), Member of Council of Representatives, Department of Knowledge Integration.
• 2019Committee member, Tenure and Promotions Committee, Department of Knowledge Integration.
• 2018Search and selection committee member for two Canada Research Chairs in Environment and Sustainability, Faculty of Environment.
• 2018Panelist on the SSHRC Insight Development Grants Panel, organized by Ruth Knechtel from the University of Waterloo Office of Research.
• 2017-2018Committee member for university-level 'Research excellence and crossing disciplinary lines' committee, which developed a white paper to inform the development of the next University of Waterloo strategic plan. Part of my contribution included a network analysis of inter- and intra-faculty collaboration networks on campus.
• 2016Informal committee designing a Master's in Data Science at the University of Waterloo, joint initiative of the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Environment.
• 2016-2019Member of Communications Outcomes Committee in the Faculty of Environment.
• 2016Internal External Examiner for PhD Dissertation in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo. John Lang, 'Mathematical Modelling of Social Factors in Decision Making Processes at the Individual and Population Levels.' Dissertation Supervisors: Drs. Hans De Sterck and Daniel M. Abrams.
• 2016Internal External Examiner for PhD Dissertation in the Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo. Benjamin Nelson, 'The Depictions of Unwritten Law.' Committee Members: Brian Orend, Heather Douglas, and Matt Doucet.
• 2016-PresentMember of the University of Waterloo Task Force on Bibliometrics.
• 2016-2017Committee Member on the Faculty of Environment Committee on the University of Waterloo HeForShe Campaign to make gender equality a top institutional priority.
• 2016Co-organized (with Ian Milligan) a Software Carpentry workshop at the University of Waterloo focusing on shell scripting, git, and Python for social scientific and historical research.
• 2016-2021Faculty Advisor, University of Waterloo iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) Team, Policy & Practices Subgroup, Mathematical Modeling Subgroup (occasionally). 2016 Gold Medal Winners.
• 2014-PresentBoard Member, University of Waterloo Survey Research Centre
• 2014-2015Faculty of Environment representative on the Arts Faculty Council
• 2014-2017Department of Knowledge Integration representative on the Environment Faculty Council
• 2014-2015Member of the English Language Competency Committee in the Faculty of Environment
• 2014Faculty of Environment Teaching and Learning Committee
• 2014Internal External Examiner for PhD Dissertation in the Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo. Nathaniel Barr, 'Reasoned connections: Complex creativity and dual-process theories of cognition.' Dissertation Advisor: Jonathon Fugelsang.

McMaster University

• 2011-2012Selection Committee member for two tenure-track hires in Sociology
• 2010-2012Chair of Graduate Student Caucus
• 2011-2012PhD (ABD) Representative on the Graduate Committee
• 2009-2010PhD Representative on the Graduate Committee
• 2009-2010Co-Organizer, Culture and Politics workshop
• 2009-2012Co-Organizer of Jane Synge Memorial Conferences
• 2009-2012Peer Mentor in Sociology Peer Mentoring Program
• 2008-2009Union Steward, Sociology (CUPE 3906)

Professional Development

• 2023-2024Academic Leadership for New Department Chairs and Associate Chairs, Academic Leadership Program, University of Waterloo. Sessions include: Planning and Prioritizing for Change; Performance Conversations; Marketing, Recruitment, and Admissions; Governance and Policy at UW; Decreasing Unhealthy Conflict and Increasing Healthy Conflict; etc.
• 2016Technical / methods workshops attended at Sunbelt 2016, Newport Beach, USA: (1) Understanding Diffusion with netdiffuseR, (2) Moving beyond Descriptives: Basic Network Statistics with statnet, (3) Exponential Family Random Graph Modeling (ERGMs) Using statnet, (4) Introduction to Egocentric Network Data Analysis with ERGMs and TERGMs Using statnet
• 2015Technical / methods workshops attended at Sunbelt 2015, Brighton, UK: (1) Networks in Python: The networkx Package, Parts 1 & 2, (2) Mining of large social networks from Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn using Python, (3) Social Network Approaches for Behavior Change, (4) Visualizing Social Networks. How to Create Meaningful and Compelling Network Drawings.
• 2012Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets. Arizona Methods Workshops, held at University of Arizona.
• 2011Hierarchical Linear Models. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), held at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Research and Teaching Assistantships

• 2010-2013Research Assistant for Neil McLaughlin, Sociology, McMaster University. 'Shaping Opinion in the Public Sphere: Public Intellectual Authority in the Journalistic Field,' Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
• 2009-2010Teaching Assistant for Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory. Neil McLaughlin, Sociology, McMaster University.
• 2008-2009Research Assistant for Neil McLaughlin, Sociology, McMaster University. 'Professors as Public Intellectuals,' Funded by SSHRC Standard Research Grant.

Professional Memberships

International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) ⋅ Network Science Society (NetSci) ⋅ Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) ⋅ International Sociological Association (ISA) ⋅ European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) ⋅ American Sociological Association (ASA)