Noshir Contractor

Noshir Contractor
Born October 16, 1959
Chakardharpur, India
Residence Evanston, India
Citizenship USA
Fields Organizational communication, Network science
Institutions Northwestern University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Indian Institute of Technology
University of Southern California
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology
University of Southern California
Thesis A dynamic reformulation of perceptions of inequity: Their organizational antecedents and outcomes (1988)
Website
nosh.northwestern.edu

Noshir S. Contractor is a professor of Behavioral Science at Northwestern University. He is the director of Sonic Lab [1] and is also the director of Web Science Trust.[2] In 2014, Professor Contractor was awarded the prestigious National Communication Association (NCA) Distinguished Scholar Award, honoring "a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication." [3]

Education

Contractor completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Communication at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1987. Prior to this he received a Master of Arts in Communication also from USC in 1986 and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1983.

Research

He has published more than 250 research papers[4][5][6] in the area of social communication networks.[7] He is well known for the Multi-Theoretical Multi-Level (MTML) Framework with Peter Monge described in detail in Theories of Communication Networks[8] which received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. He is also one of the principal investigators of the Virtual Worlds Observatory project.

References

  1. ↑ http://sonic.northwestern.edu/ Sonic Lab
  2. ↑ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/news/2754 Professor Noshir Contractor joins Web Science Trust
  3. ↑ http://www.natcom.org/awards/ NCA Awards
  4. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  5. ↑ Noshir Contractor's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  6. ↑ Noshir Contractor's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  7. ↑ Lazer, D.; Pentland, A.; Adamic, L.; Aral, S.; Barabasi, A. -L.; Brewer, D.; Christakis, N.; Contractor, N.; Fowler, J.; Gutmann, M.; Jebara, T.; King, G.; Macy, M.; Roy, D.; Van Alstyne, M. (2009). "SOCIAL SCIENCE: Computational Social Science". Science 323 (5915): 721–723. doi:10.1126/science.1167742. PMC 2745217. PMID 19197046.
  8. ↑ Contractor, Noshir S.; Monge, Peter R. (2003). Theories of communication networks. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516037-1.