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Social Networks and Social Science History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Susan Cotts Watkins
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The title of this presidential address reflects the happy conjunction of my particular interest in social networks and the network structure of the Social Science History Association. My talk will be brief, because I want to reserve most of this “presidential picnic” for the panel that the program chair, Donna Gabaccia, organized. Last year's president, Eric Monkkonen (1994: 166), in his history of the institution of the SSHA, called our meetings “a venue for scholars from different disciplines to learn to talk to one another.” That we have this annual opportunity for conversations is due to the work of our networks that organize the sessions that attract us to the meetings; to program chairs—this year, Donna—who create a program from these sessions; and to our executive director, Erik Austin, whose ability and diligence keeps the organization going from year to year.

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President's Address
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Social Science History , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , Fall 1995 , pp. 295 - 311
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1995 

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