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James Moody

Professor in the Department of Sociology
Sociology
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
268 Soc/Psych Bldg., Durham, NC 27708

Overview


James Moody is the Robert O. Keohane professor of sociology at Duke University. He has published extensively in the field of social networks, methods, and social theory. His work has focused theoretically on the network foundations of social cohesion and diffusion, with a particular emphasis on building tools and methods for understanding dynamic social networks. He has used network models to help understand school racial segregation, adolescent health, disease spread, economic development, and the development of scientific disciplines. Moody's work is funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has appeared in top social science, health and medical journals. He is winner of INSNA's (International Network for Social Network Analysis) Freeman Award for scholarly contributions to network analysis, founding director of the Duke Network Analysis Center and editor of the on-line Journal of Social Structure.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor in the Department of Sociology · 2010 - Present Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center · 2010 - Present Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute
Bass Fellow · 2016 - Present Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published August 25, 2022
Duke Team Awarded $1 Million to Predict the Next Pandemic
Published February 12, 2018
Big Questions, Far Connections: Visualizing Research Ties Across Campus
Published March 14, 2017
Webs of Minds and Ideas Bind Dukes Campus

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Recent Publications


The effect of a social network-based intervention to promote HIV testing and linkage to HIV services among fishermen in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trial.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · April 2025 BackgroundIn sub-Saharan Africa, highly mobile men such as fishermen have a low uptake of HIV testing, prevention, and treatment. This study aimed to examine whether a HIV status-neutral, social network-based intervention could improve testing and ... Full text Cite

Considerations for Social Networks and Health Data Sharing: An Overview.

Journal Article Ann Epidemiol · February 2025 The use of network analysis as a tool has increased exponentially as more clinical researchers see the benefits of network data for modeling of infectious disease transmission or translational activities in a variety of areas, including patient-caregiving ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effect of a social network-based intervention on adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and HIV viral suppression among Kenyan fishermen.

Journal Article AIDS (London, England) · February 2025 ObjectiveSocial networks may play a vital role in shaping health behaviors, including engagement in HIV prevention and treatment. We evaluated the impact of an HIV status-neutral, social-network-based HIV self-testing and linkage intervention on p ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


US-Israel Collab: Market Integration, Land Use, and Pathogen Transmission in Rural Madagascar

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028

Effectively Linking Molecular Informatics and Network Analytics to Reduce Malaria (ELIMINAR-Malaria)

ResearchCo-Mentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2028

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 1999 Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · 1997 M.A.
University of Oregon · 1992 B.S.