• M.S., Statistics, Mississippi State University
• M.S., Sociology, Mississippi State University
• B.A., Sociology, Mississippi State University

John McCown serves as a Senior Research Associate at the Social Science Research Center. His research interests include demography, criminology, and urban-rural sociology, with an emphasis on statistical computation and geospatial mapping. During the last 15 years at SSRC, he has worked on a variety of projects as a data analyst, offering expertise in research methods, data management, statistical analyses, and visualization. Before joining SSRC, he was a graduate assistant in the MSU Sociology Department.

McCown's work is supported in part by MAFES.