Noshir Contractor

Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University whose research investigates the formation and performance of networks. He is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association; executive director of the Web Science Trust; and a fellow of the Academy of Management, International Communication Association, Network Science Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Association for Computing Machinery. In 2022, Contractor received the Simmel Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis.