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Steve Borgatti is a Gatton Endowed Chair in the Department of Management at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics. Trained as an anthropologist, his research centers on social network analysis, including network theory, methodology and applications to organizational settings. His interests include centrality, brokerage and structural holes, homophily, equivalence and blockmodeling, and the foundations of network measurement.
He is a co-author of Analyzing Social Networks and of UCINET, a widely used software package for social network analysis, and the developer of Anthropac, a program for cultural domain analysis. His methodological writing addresses the definition and measurement of network concepts and his work has appeared in journals spanning management; sociology and the social sciences more broadly.
He is a past President of INSNA, the professional organization for social network researchers, and currently serves as co-editor of CONNECTIONS, an INSNA journal.
At UK, he teaches doctoral seminars in research methods and network analysis and supervises Ph.D. students.
He received his Ph.D. in social science from the University of California, Irvine in 1989. He received his B.A. degree in anthropology from Cornell University in 1977.
