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Kenneth Frank

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Kenneth Frank

MSU Foundation Professor of Sociometrics

College of Education

Erickson Hall, 462

(517) 355-9567

kenfrank@msu.edu

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Biography

Kenneth Frank received his Ph.D. in measurement, evaluation and statistical analysis from the School of Education at the University of Chicago in 1993. He is MSU Foundation professor of Sociometrics, professor in Counseling, Educational Psychology and Special Education; and adjunct (by courtesy) in Fisheries and Wildlife and Sociology at Michigan State University. His substantive interests include the study of schools as organizations, social structures of students and teachers and school deci

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Education

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1993

Publications

Frank, K.A., Lo, Y., Booth, G.G., Kallunki, J.P. (2019). The Market Dynamics of Socially Embedded Trading. Rationality and Society. Vol 3(2): 153-181.

Frank K.A., Lo Y., Torphy K., Kim J. (2018) Social Networks and Educational Opportunity. pp 297-316 in Schneider B. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Cham.

Frank, K.A. and Xu, Ran. (forthcoming). Causal Inference for Social Network Analysis. James Moody and Ryan Light editors. Oxford Handbook of Social Network Analysis. Oxford, UK.

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