University of Michigan-Flint

Degrees Earned:

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., Sociology, Mississippi State University; B.A., Anthropology, Pomona College

Teaching Interests:

Introduction to Sociology, Research Methodology and Statistics, Political Sociology

Research Interests:

Comparative Political Economy, Interlocking Corporate Directorates, Comparative and Historical Analyses, Network Analyses, The Social Mosaic of Corporate Directors Project.

Recent Publications:

Barnes, Roy C. 2012. Study Guide for Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, 9th Edition, by Joseph R. Healey. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.

Barnes, Roy C. and Tracy Burkett. 2010. “Structural Redundancy and Multiplicity in Corporate Networks,” Connections, Vol. 30, Issue 2, December, pp. 1-20.

Barnes, Roy C. (2001) "The Rise Of Corporatist Regulation In The English And Canadian Dairy Industries." Social Science History 25: 381-406.

Barnes, Roy C. and Emily R. Ritter (2001) "Networks of Corporate Interlocking: 1962-1995." Critical Sociology 27: 192-220.

Barnes, Roy C. (2000) "The Microfoundations of Market Instability: Dairying's Collective Action Problems in Canada and England during the 1930s Depression." Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 37: 421-41.

Recent Presentations:

Barnes, Roy C. 2012. "Structural Redundancy and Multiplicity within Networks of U.S. Corporate Directors," paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, March 14, 2012, Redondo Beach, CA.

Barnes, Roy C. and William K. Carroll. 2010. “From Structural to Brokerage Based Hegemony: U.S. Corporations in a Changing Global Context: 1996 and 2006,”paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, July 3, Riva del Garda, Italy.

__________. 2009. “U.S. Corporations in a Changing Global Context: 1996 and 2006,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, April 2, New Orleans, LA.

Barnes, Roy C. and William K. Carroll. 2008. “Changing Role of Social Clubs in The Global Network of Corporate Interlocks,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, January 24, 2008.

Petts, Leah M., Sarah R. Coughlin, Roy C. Barnes and William K. Carroll. 2007 “Social Ties in Global Corporate Networks: Do They Matter?” Paper presented at the P Annual Meeting of the Michigan Sociological Association, October 27, East Lansing MI.

Barnes, Roy C. 2007. “The Organizational Mosaic of U.S. Corporate Directors,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, May 4, 2007.

Barnes, Roy C. 2006. “The Multiple Affiliations within the Corporate Elite,” Invited paper presented at the conference, “Politics and Interlocking Directorates,” University of Barcelona, September 28-29.