Christopher McCarty is a Professor in the University of Florida Department of Anthropology and director of the UF Bureau of Economic and Business Research. He has over twenty years of experience conducting primary data collection in both within and outside the U.S. McCarty’s research focus is on social network analysis, and more specifically the analysis of personal networks. He 2001 he developed a software program called Egonet that is designed for the collection and analysis of personal networks. This open source software is freely available at
Biographical Sketch
David P. Redlawsk is Director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling and Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, where directs the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. Professor Redlawsk received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Rutgers University. He also holds an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. from Duke University. His research focuses on campaign, elections, the role of information in voter decision making and on emotional responses to campaign information.
ISSR Spring 2016 - Winners of the Graduate Student Poster Competition!
Spring 2016 Seed Grant Recipients:
Association of Infant Feeding, Maternal and Infant Microbiota, and Infant Temperament
Dr. Katie Hinde, Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Dr. Elizabeth Reifsnider, Associate Dean and Professor, College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Dr. Corrie Whisner, Assistant Professor, School oif Nutrition and Health Promotion
Q: Can a seed grant be used for conference travel?
A: No, conference travel will not be supported. Please apply to your college or school for travel funds.
Q: Does an NSF CAREER grant qualify as the external funding requirement for the ISSR seed grant program?
A: No, this type of grant does not qualifty for ISSR funding.
Q: Is my department required to provide matching funds if I receive an ISSR seed grant?
A: No, matching funds are not required for any seed grant.
Registration is required - most workshops are $50 / both online & face to face.
Workshops are open to faculty, staff, graduate students and undergraduate students both at ASU, and the non ASU community.
Spring 2024 -
Cultural Domain Analysis: Methods for Human Insight Research - perpetual online asynchronous course, Instructor: Rosalyn Negrón, University of Massachusetts Boston. First course in ISSR series of Research Methods courses for the Social Sciences -
Sample List of ASU Undergraduate Courses on Social Science Methods
ACO 100. All About Data: Design, Query, Visualization
ACT 435 Statistics for Risk Modeling
ACT 450 Actuarial Models 1
ALA 235 Intro to Computer Modeling
AML 253, SOS 210 or 294. Introduction to Mathematical Tools and Modeling for the Life and Social Sciences
ASB 430,[CPI 430], or AML 330. Social Simulation.
AML 441 Mathematical Concepts and Tools in Sustainability.
APM 522 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equation
Sample Plans of Study (iPOS)for varied degree concentrations HERE
Sample List of ASU Graduate-level Courses on Social Science Methods
School of Geographical Studies and Urban Planning Courses (GIS/PUP)
GCU 542 Geographical Analysis of Transportation
GCU 585 Geographic Research Design and Proposal Writing
Spring 2024 Graduate Student Poster Contest!
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Graduate Students at ASU: Are you Doing Social Science?
"Anyone studying the causes or consequences of human thought and behavior is doing social science".
—H. Russell Bernard - Director, Institute for Social Science Research, ASU