Please note that our regular session will be replaced by the following job talk. This presentation will not take place in Stuart 101, but inSS 305 (12PM-1PM).

TITLE: “Evolution of Racial and Ethnic Segregation: Pace and Place of Neighborhood Change”

Michael Bader is a scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society

Scholars program at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in the summer of 2009. In his research, he investigates why people live where they live, what they think about the places they live, and the consequences of living where they live. Answering these questions in urban areas is particularly interesting because of their potential to help explain the persistent racial inequality that we witness across metropolitan areas and to understand how housing policies and gentrification might affect these persistent inequalities. A significant part of his research has also involved developing methodological tools to help determine residential preferences, measure the reliability of data collection methods, and use spatial patterns to help measure characteristics of residents’ neighborhoods.