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David Gibson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Office: 584 McNeil Building
University of Pennsylvania
Sociology Department
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6299
Telephone: 215-898-4568
Fax: 215-573-2081
Email: gibsond@sas.upenn.edu

Alternate webpage(s): http://www.soc.upenn.edu/~gibsond/
Full CV

Education:

1991   B.A., Eastern College (magna cum laude)

1994   M.A. (Sociology) Columbia University

1995   M.Phil. (Sociology) Columbia University

1999   Ph.D. (Sociology, with Distinction), Columbia University

Research:

  • Social networks
  • Micro-interaction
  • Organizations

Selected Publications:

2005  "Taking Turns and Talking Ties: Network Structure and Conversational Sequences." American Journal of Sociology, 110:6 (2005): 1561-97.

2005  “Concurrency and Commitment: Network Scheduling and its Consequences for Diffusion.” Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 29:4 (2005): 295-323.

2005  “Opportunistic Interruptions: Interactional Vulnerabilities Deriving from Linearization.” Social Psychology Quarterly, 68:4 (2005): 316-37.

2003  “Participation Shifts: Order and Differentiation in Group Conversation.” Social Forces, 81:4 (2003): 1135-81.

 

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