Hello. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the School of Social
and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University.* My work focuses primarily on social
networks as they pertain to (1) information diffusion within and across organizations and
(2) the spread and control of infectious diseases. Much of this work has focused on
HIV-prevention in high-risk populations. 

In addition, I also have a primary interest in using social network theory to improve
strategies used in the design and implementation of primary data collection projects. To
date, this interest has led to my involvement in projects in Malawi, South Africa and New
York City (see the "projects" page for more details). 

Before coming to ASU, I did my undergrad at Virginia Tech (Go Hokies!), completed grad
school in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State, then spent two years funded by the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University. 

*I actually don't update this site that often anymore, but do more regular upkeep of
my site at ASU (http://www.public.asu.edu/~jadams27/).

Data Collection

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The Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project 2004–06: Data collection, data quality, and analysis of attrition (with Philip Anglewicz, Francis Obare, Hans-Peter Kohler, and Susan Watkins), Demographic Research (2009)
In this paper we evaluate the quality of survey data collected by the Malawi Diffusion...
 

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The Malawi Religion Project: Data collection and Selected Analyses (with Jenny Trinitapoli), Demographic Research (2009)
Scholars have recently become increasingly interested in the role religion plays in the responses to...
 

HIV/AIDS, STDs

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Letter to the Editor: regarding “Male and Female Circumcision Associated with Prevalent HIV Infection in Virgins and Adolescents in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania” (with Jenny Trinitapoli and Michelle Poulin), Annals of Epidemiology (2007)
 

Religion

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Stained Glass Makes the Ceiling Visible: Organizational Opposition to Women's Congregational Leadership, Gender & Society (2007)
While women represent the vast majority of participants in religious organizations in the United States,...
 

Social Networks

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Social Networks, Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development (2008)
 

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To Tell the Truth? Measuring Concordance in Multiply Reported Network Data (with James Moody), Social Networks (2007)
Social network data must accurately reflect actors’ relationships to properly estimate network features. Here, we...