Director
John
R. Logan is Professor of Sociology and Director of the S4
initiative. He came to Brown University in Fall 2004, after 24 years at
the University at Albany, where he served as Chair of the Department of
Sociology, Director of the Lewis Mumford Center, and Director of the Center for
Social and Demographic Analysis. Dr. Logan is co-author, along with Harvey
Molotch, of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. His most
recent edited book, The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform,
was published by Blackwell in 2001.
Staff
Scott
Bell (Associate Director). Scott earned his PhD in
Geography at UC Santa Barbara, and he is currently Associate Professor in the
Department of Geography at the University of Saskatchewan . He has
accepted a 30-month appointment at Brown to help guide S4's development in the
next two years. He will have special responsibility for coordinating
training and workshop activities in spatial analysis. His own research
focuses on spatial learning and spatial cognition, and he expects to pursue
those interests here.
Limei Li
(Postdoctoral Research Associate). Limei got her PhD degree in Geography at Hong Kong Baptist University. Her dissertation examines the everyday life experience of the first generation of homeowners in the privately governed commodity housing estates in urban China using a case study of Panyu, Guangzhou. Her major job at Brown is to analyze the household survey on housing history and residential mobility in Beijing conducted in 2006. She also participates in the American communities project.
Hyoung-jin Shin
(Ph.D. in Sociology, University at Albany) is a Postdoctoral Research Associate of the S4 initiative. His dissertation research was a study of intermarriage patterns of Hispanics and Asians using the census micro data. He will participate in a variety of research projects including a study of the residential and labor market incorporation of immigrants and minorities in U.S. cities at the end of the 19th Century and early 20th Century.
Qiang Cai
is expected to get his Ph.D degree in Geography
from the University of Iowa in December, 2007.
His dissertation title is " Mapping Disease Risk using Spatial Filtering Methods",
which belongs to the areas of spatial epidemiology and spatial statistics.
Qiang Cai's work in S4 includes geocoding historical population survey data
in US cities using GIS and investigating research problems, such residential
segregation patterns among the historical populations, using GIS, spatial
analysis, and statistical methods.
Jason Jindrich
(PhD Geography, UMN-Minneapolis) is a Post-Doctoral
Research Associate assisting in the creation of a census-based HGIS
for the thirty largest US cities in 1880. His dissertation, entitled
"Establishing the Diversity of Late Nineteenth-century Suburbs.",
establishes a quantitative basis to the New Suburban History.
Jennifer Darrah
is a 5th year PhD candidate in Sociology. At S4 she has worked primarily on a project funded by the Russell Sage Foundation on the political incorporation of immigrants in the U.S. This project draws upon data from the U.S. Census and the Current Population Survey to examine the naturalization of immigrants and the political participation of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. She is currently writing a dissertation on the politics of urban development in Hawai’i.
Sukriti
Issar is a 2nd year doctoral student in Sociology
with interests in urban policy and social movements, with a particular focus on
India. She is working primarily on an interdisciplinary S4 project on storm
damage and the Gulf Coast, supported by National Science Foundation: "
Disaster, Resilience and the Built Environment on the Gulf Coast."
Julia Drew is a 4th year graduate student in Sociology. She is working on a collaborative project examining the economic integration of skilled immigrants from the Former Soviet Union. Her research interests include the sociology of disability, disparities in health care access and utilization, reproductive and population health, gender, families and households, and quantitative methodology.
The S4 staff includes three other full-time
professionals with GIS and programming expertise:
Youshe
Li (PHD in Geology, University at Albany) is the GIS and
Computing Manager. He is responsible for the development of a web-based GIS
application for the S4, as well as developing techniques for analysis and
processing of spatial data for applied interdisciplinary research. He is also
responsible for assessing technological needs and coordinating work.
Additionally he provides technical consultation and training.
Juanfang
Lei is the Programmer/Analyst. Her responsibilities
include providing technical assistance for web and desktop application
development, database management, and web-based Geographic Information System
(GIS) projects. She also is responsible for designing, creating and maintaining
the S4 website.
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