Brass studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where in 1969 he received his Bachelor in Psychology, in 1975 his Master of Arts in Labor and Industrial Relations,and in 1979 his Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration and Management.
Brass started his academic career as Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University in 1979. In 2000, he moved to the University of Kentucky, where he was appointed J. Henning Hilliard Professor of Innovation Management. He founded the LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis in 2006, and is currently the Director of the LINKS Center and Chair of the Department of Management in the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
His research interests "focus on the antecedents and consequences of social networks in organizations".
P., Mehra, A.
