His recent work examines competing institutional logics in corporate finance as well as donor-candidate networks in state-level politics. He is interested in quantitative methods and teaches research methods and statistics to sociology, anthropology, and political science majors. He has recently published an online open access textbook covering statistical analysis of social network data with Robert A. Hanneman (Statistical Analysis of Social Networks), and drawing on theories from the imaging sciences, is currently developing a novel matching coefficient to measure the similarity of survey responses across individuals. Ashton, William