Noshir Contractor
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering
Professor of Management & Organizations
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management and Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is also the former President of the International Communication Association (ICA). Additionally, he is the host of a podcast series titled “Untangling the Web,” where he engages in conversations with thought leaders to explore how the Web is shaping society, and how society in turns is shaping the Web.
Professor Contractor has been at the forefront of three emerging interdisciplines: network science, computational social science and web science. He is investigating how social and knowledge networks form – and perform – in contexts including business, scientific communities, healthcare and space travel. His research has been funded continuously for 25 years by the U.S. National Science Foundation with additional funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, NASA, DARPA, Army Research Laboratory and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
His book Theories of Communication Networks (co-authored with Peter Monge) received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association and the 2021 Fellows Book Award from the International Communication Association (ICA). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Network Science Society, and the International Communication Association (ICA). He also received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association, the Lifetime Service Award from the Communication, Digital Technology, & Organization Division of the Academy of Management, and the Simmel Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). In 2018 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he received a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.
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Ph.D, 1987, Communication, University of Southern California
M.A., 1986, Communication, University of Southern California
B. Tech, 1983, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology -
Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Departments of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Communication Studies, and Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2007-present
Professor of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2007
Director, Team Engineering Collaboratory, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 1991-2007
Director, Computing and Instructional Laboratories, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 1987-2007
Associate Professor of Speech Communication, University of Illi nois at Urbana - Champaign, 1993-2001
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 1987-1993 -
Best Conference Poster Award for "The MyDreamTeam Builder: A Recommender System for Assembling & Enabling Effective Teams", Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research
Top Paper Award for Murase, T., Asencio, R., McDonald, J., Poole, M. S., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2015). The Effect of Entrainment of Group Processes on Multiteam System Effectiveness, National Communication Association
International Communication Association Fellow, International Communication Association -
Member of Editorial Board, Human Communication Research, 2010
Associate Editor, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 2013
Editor for Communication, Engineering & Management, Network Science, 2012
Leading Into the Future
As the world of business changes at breakneck speed, executives must stay at the forefront of management thinking and practice. This program delivers a wealth of new knowledge and insights for managing change with confidence in the 21st century.
Leading Into the Future: Managing in a Changing World
As the world of business changes at breakneck speed, executives must stay at the forefront of management thinking and practice. This program delivers a wealth of new knowledge and insights for managing change with confidence in the in 21 st century.
Social Network Analysis (IEMS-441-0)
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