The Urban Sociology Research Symposium
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
10:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Manchester Hall Lounge
Please join us for the Urban Sociology Research Symposium which will be held on Tuesday, May 5 from 10:00 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. in the Manchester Hall Lounge on the Storrs campus. The Symposium is a forum for Sociology graduate students interested in urban sociology to present the results of their ongoing research for this semester. The students' projects cover a range of timely topics on urban America and are certain to provide stimulating findings and thought-provoking discussion.
Session 1: 10:00-12:00
Heidi Obach, “The Young and the Creative? Attracting Young, College-educated Residents to U.S. Metropolitan Areas”
Deronta Renard Spencer, “The Long-Term Effects of Elementary School Segregation on Poverty Rates of Young Black and White Adults”
Jason Slappe, “Who Benefits from Income Inequality, Racial Discrimination, and Concentrated Poverty? A Class-Framed Analysis of White and Black Workers”
Angran Li, “Economic Globalization, Labor Market Transformation, and Immigrant and Native Worker Skills in the U.S. Metropolitan Areas”
Discussant: Professor Jeremy Pais
Session 2: 1:00-2:30
Allen Hyde, “Immigration and Local Labor Market Quality in Metropolitan America”
Jordan Rees, “Thriving or Surviving? The Impact of the Great Recession on Urban Health”
Gregory J. Mills, “The Impact of the U.S. Housing Crisis on Marriage, Cohabitation, Fertility, and Divorce”
Discussant: Professor Andrew Deener
Session 3: 2:45-4:15
Joonghyun Kwak, “Globalization and the Transformation of Occupational Structures in U.S. Metropolitan Areas”
Miranda Wu, “The Impact of Immigration on the Quality of Life in U.S. Metropolitan Areas”
D. Matthew Ray, “Mobility for Whom? Metropolitan Mobility Structures and Stratification of Earnings and Poverty”
Discussant: Professor Mary Fischer
For more information, contact: Professor Michael Wallace/Sociology at michael.wallace@uconn.edu