Paul McLean
Professor of Sociology
Paul McLean (he, him, his) is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences. His research has focused on exploring the connections between multiple kinds of social networks—marriage networks, economic networks, and political patronage networks chiefly—and describing the cultural practices and identities that actors adopt to move within and across them.
Much of this research has concerned the structural properties of networks in Renaissance Florence and 18th century Poland. He teaches courses on social theory, network analysis, and organizations, in addition to teaching Intro to Soc regularly.