Meet the People of the Irsay

Biography

Ann McCranie is the associate director of research and training at the Irsay Institute, where she is responsible for leading the project management team, proposal development, outreach, and events. She co-leads the Irsay Fellows program and is also the co-managing director of the IU Research Data Commons.

McCranie received her Ph.D. in sociology from IUB. Her research has focused on networks in several domains: personal networks and health decision-making, networks within organizations and how they impact change, and networks between mental health service researchers. She was the managing editor for Network Science and a summer program faculty teaching network analysis for the University of Michigan's ICPSR Summer Program from 2011-2022. She co-authored Recovery in Mental Health: A Critical Sociological Account.

McCranie has served as a lead and co-investigator on several NSF and foundation projects, and she has also served as the general organizer for several academic conferences, including Networks 2021, International Conference on Scientometrics & Infometrics 2023, and World Psychiatric Association's Together Against Stigma 2024. She has served as conference co-chair of the Network Science Society since 2018.