Kevin Lewis

Graduate Student in Sociology

Biographical Note

Kevin is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate from San Jose, CA. Over the past four years he has overseen the development of a new cultural, multiplex, and longitudinal social network dataset using data from Facebook. This dataset has given rise to a number of collaborative projects exploring the intersection of social networks, tastes (with Jason Kaufman and Marco Gonzalez), ethnicity (with Andreas Wimmer), and privacy (with Jason Kaufman and Nicholas Christakis). Other current projects include a comparative study of "culture in action" in the context of contemporary tattooing; an analysis of reciprocity, balance, and hierarchy in a gang homicide network (with Andrew Papachristos); and an exploration of the "structure of activism" based on the Save Darfur campaign (with Jens Meierhenrich). His dissertation will examine the social ramifications of online dating.

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Publications

Wimmer, Andreas and Kevin Lewis. Forthcoming. “Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook.” American Journal of Sociology.

Lewis, Kevin, Jason Kaufman, and Nicholas Christakis. 2008. “The Taste for Privacy: An Analysis of College Student Privacy Settings in an Online Social Network.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14:79-100.

Lewis, Kevin, Jason Kaufman, Marco Gonzalez, Andreas Wimmer, and Nicholas Christakis. 2008. “Tastes, Ties, and Time: A New Social Network Dataset Using Facebook.com.” Social Networks 30:330-342.

02/09/2010

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

cultural sociology, social networks, social psychology

Previous Degrees

MA in Sociology, Harvard University (2008)
BA in Sociology and Philosophy, UC San Diego (2005)

photo by Kurt Gray

Contact

617-493-6872 (Phone)
617-496-5794 (FAX)

641 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138