Urban, Community and Spatial Sociology
People specializing in this area
Faculty
Eric P. Baumer
communities and crime, mobilization of law
Sarah Brothers
Inequality and marginality, ethnography
Francis Dodoo
urban poverty
Corina Graif
Consequences of urban poverty and population diversity on crime and on the dynamics of personal and community social capital
John Iceland
Racial/ ethic residential segregation, immigration and immigrant communities, poverty, social demography
Stephen A. Matthews
Communities, neighborhoods, health, spatial inequality, built environment, human spatial behavior, racial/ethnic residential segregation
Darrell Steffensmeier
theory construction, including development of theories of gender/crime relationship, age/crime relationship, and criminal justice decision making, patterns and predictors of crime, criminal careers and life-course criminality
Scott T. Yabiku
human & ecological communities
Affiliated Faculty
Leif I. Jensen
Immigrants in new destinations, community and regional impacts on poverty and stratification, community economic development
Ann R. Tickamyer
Spatial inequality, rural poverty and welfare, gender, work and development in the US and Southeast Asia
Department Head
Eric P. Baumer
communities and crime, mobilization of law
Emeritus Faculty
Glenn Firebaugh
Neighborhood inequality, residential segregation, methods for studying communities
Barrett Lee
Neighborhood change, racial/ethnic segregation and diversity, urban homelessness, spatial aspects of affluence, community attachment, local social networks
Diane K. McLaughlin
Rural and urban youth outmigration, schooling, work and transitions to adulthood, community economic restructuring, demographic change and poverty/inequality, community development
R.S. Oropesa ("Sal")
Urban social disorder and disorganization, immigrant incorporation and assimilation in new destinations, neighborhood mobilization
Wayne Osgood
Social disorganization and rural crime, adolescents' friendship networks, time use and delinquency rates, multilevel models for studying community effects
Graduate Directors
Stephen A. Matthews
Communities, neighborhoods, health, spatial inequality, built environment, human spatial behavior, racial/ethnic residential segregation