SNA All-Star: Sean F. Everton

Sean F. Everton is an Assistant Professor in the Defense Analysis department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. He is also the Co-Director of the Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Lab. Before joining the faculty of NPS, he was an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University and Stanford University. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Stanford, an MA in Sociology from San Jose State University, an MDiv from Vanderbilt University, and a BS in Accounting from Santa Clara University. His work spans a variety of disciplines, including economic sociology, political sociology, sociology of religion, and notably, social network analysis. 

He recently published a book on the use of social network analysis to both track and disrupt “dark networks,” which are covert or illegal networks, such as criminal or terrorist networks, gangs, drug cartels, or resistance movements. The book, Disrupting Dark Networks, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.Most recently, he has co-authored with Daniel Cunningham and William Fox, both at the Naval Postgraduate School. 

Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional baseball player, a certified public accountant, and as a pastor.

Recent publications include:

2012. Disrupting Dark Networks. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2014. "Dark Network Resilience in a Hostile Environment: Optimizing Centralization and Density.” Forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary Criminology (with Daniel Cunningham). 

2014. “Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Analytical Hierarchy Process to Find Node Influences in a Social Network.” Forthcoming in Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (with William Fox). 

2013. “Mathematical Modeling in Social Network Analysis: Using TOPSIS to Find Node Influences in a Social Network.”  Journal of Mathematics and Systems Science 3:531-541 (with William Fox).