I'm Eun Kyong Shin, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center – Oak Ridge National Lab (UTHSC-ORNL), Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Pediatrics (affiliated with Le Bonheur Children's Hospital). My work focuses on understanding the relational underpinnings of social change and investigates the ways in which social networks are galvanized/utilized/intervened to diminish disparity in political system and social inequality. My areas of research and teaching include social movements and collective action, social network analysis, covert criminal networks and terrorism, introduction to sociology, statistics, and social dimensions of public health.