Title: Associate Professor

Sociology Office: 4146B BSB

Sociology Phone: 312-996-5575

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Joint Appointments: Institute of Government and Public Affairs

Office: Rice Bldg, Suite 525

Phone: 312-996-6191

Research Interests: racial residential segregation, racial attitudes, survey methods, multi-methods

Recent Courses:

• Sociology 501:   Sociological Research Methods (2nd semester)
• Sociology 509:   Survey Research Methods
• Sociology 520:   Race, Ethnicity, and Residential Segregation
• Sociology 202:   Research Methods (undergraduate)

Web Addresses: http://tigger.cc.uic.edu/~krysan/racialattitudes.htm

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Bio: Maria Krysan (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1995) is an Associate Professor of Sociology whose research focuses on racial residential segregation and racial attitudes. Her investigations of these substantive issues often connect to methodological questions about how to study this sensitive area of social life. She combines standard closed-ended survey analysis with mode of administration experiments, analyses of open-ended survey questions, and depth interviews. She is co-author (with H. Schuman, L. Bobo and C. Steeh) of the book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Harvard University Press, Revised Edition, 1997), and is responsible for a website that updates the data from that book (http://tigger.cc.uic.edu/~krysan/racialattitudes.htm). In addition to a recent edited volume with Amanda Lewis (The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity), her most recent work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, Social Problems, Social Forces. She is a principal investigator on an NSF-funded grant, "Collaborative Research on Race and Rust Belt Revitalization: What Determines Who Lives Where?" a project that continues her interest in racial attitudes and racial residential segregation.