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Patrick Doreian
MA University of Essex, 1966 (Sociology)
BSc University of Leicester, 1964 (Mathematics, First) 
Professor of Sociology
Also secondary appointment in Departments of Statistics and Psychology
2602 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
412-648-7537
pitpat@pitt.edu
pdjms@pitt.edu (for the Journal of Mathematical Sociology)
Field(s):
Social Network Analysis, Mathematical Sociology, Macro-Sociology, Environment, Inter-organizational Theory
Teaching:
Social Network Analysis, Environment and Society, Statistical Methods, Societies
Selected Publications:
(* - refereed journal)
P. Doreian, V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj (2007) “Comment on ‘Model-based clustering for social networks”, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 170(2): 333-4.*
V. Batagelj, A. Ferligoj and P. Doreian (2007) “Indirect Blockmodeling of 3-way Networks” in P. Bertrand, H-H Bock, P. Brito, G. Cucumel,F. de Carvalho, Y. Lechavallier, B. Leclerc, G. Saporta (Eds.) Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Berlin: Springer.
Patrick Doreian (2006) “Some Open Problems for Generalized Blockmodeling”. pp 119-130 in V. Batagelj, H.H. Bock, A. Ferligoj, A. Ziberna (Eds) Data Science and Classification, Berlin: Springer.
P. Doreian, “Actor Network Utilities and Network Evolution”, Social Networks, Vol.
28, 2006:137-164*
V. Batagelj, A. Mrvar, A. Ferligoj, P. Doreian “Generalized Blockmodeling with Pajek” Metodolški Zvezki (Journal of the Statistical Society of Slovenia), Vol1(2), 2004, 455-467.*
P. Doreian, Batagelj, V. and A. Ferligoj, Generalized Blockmodeling, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
P. Doreian (2004), “Evolution of Human Signed Networks”, Metodolški Zvezki (Journal of the Statistical Society of Slovenia), Vol 1(2): 277-293*.
P. Doreian and K. Fujimoto, “Identifying Linking-Pin Organizations in Inter-Organizational Networks” Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, Vol. 10, 2004: 45-68*
Doreian, V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj (2004), “Generalized Blockmodeling Two-Mode Network Data”, Social Networks, Vol. 26(1) 29-53*
P. Doreian, V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj, (2005) “Positional Analyses of Sociometric Data” pp. 77-97 in P. Carrington, J. Scott, and S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis, New York: University of Cambridge Press.
N. P. Hummon and P. Doreian, "Some Dynamics of Social Balance Processes" Social Networks, 2003*.
P. Doreian "Event sequences as Generators of Social Network Evolution", Social Networks, Vol. 24, pp 93-119, 2002*.
P. Doreian, V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj, “Positional Analyses of Sociometric Data” in P. Carrington, J. Scott, and S. Wasserman (Eds.), Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis, New York: University of Cambridge Press, (Forthcoming, 2002)*.
P. Doreian and K. Fujimoto, "Structures of Supreme Court Voting", Connections, (Forthcoming, 2002)*.
P. Doreian, "Causality in Social Network Analysis", Sociological Methods and Research, Vol. 30(1), 2001, 81-114.*
P. Doreian and D. Krackhardt, "Pre-Transitive Balance Mechanisms for Signed Networks”, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 25(1), 2001, 43-67*.
P. Doreian, V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj, “Symmetric-Acylic Decompositions of Networks”, Journal of Classification, Vol. 17, 2000 (pp. 3-28)*.
V. Batagelj, A. Ferligoj and P. Doreian, "Generalized Blockmodeling", Informatica, Vol. 23, 1999, 501-506*.
P. Doreian, “An Intuitive Introduction to Blockmodeling with Examples” Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique, N61, January 1999, 5-34*.
Honors/Awards:
Harrison White Outstanding Book Award, Mathematical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2007 for P. Doreian, Batagelj, V. and A. Ferligoj, Generalized Blockmodeling, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Honorary Senator, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Dec 3, 2004)
LSE Centennial Visiting Professorship at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London. (February - July 2002).
Chair, Mathematical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2001-2002.
Keynote Speaker, International Social Networks Conference (Joint 15th Sunbelt and 4th
Project(s):
The World System of Football (aka Soccer)
Three Dimensional Generalized Blockmodeling
Studies of Signed Social Relations
Battling Environmental adn Interorganizational Networks
Social Networks and Police Academy Training