John Skvoretz, PhD

Dr. John Skvoretz is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at USF and Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of South Carolina. Since 2012, he has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). An invited member of the Sociological Research Association (ASA) since 1994, he received the James S. Coleman Distinguished Career Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the ASA in 2012.

Trained as a mathematical sociologist, he has contributed to several areas in sociology, including stratification and mobility, social network analysis, group processes, power in exchange networks, and the structure of social action systems. His work is characterized by the innovative use of mathematics to formulate theory and analyze data. He is currently co-Principal Investigator on grants funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research, and National Science Foundation.

He joined USF in 2005 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, after serving as Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is a past president of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of INSNA’s Journal of Social Structure, while he continues to support the society’s leadership.