Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at UC San Diego. His research focuses on the formation and evolution of social networks, and addresses three general questions. First, what underlying micro-mechanisms give rise to observed network patterns? Second, what is the role of culture, and especially of cultural tastes, in social network dynamics? Third, what are the implications of these processes for the genesis and reproduction of inequality? To answer these questions, he has analyzed a number of large-scale network datasets—spanning topics from online dating to internet activism to college students’ behavior on Facebook—and his work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Social Networks, and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.