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Table of Contents | Background & Objective | Contributors
Spatially Integrated Social Science: Contributors
Luc Anselin is Professor of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, holds appointments in the Department of Economics and the Department of Geography, and is Senior Research Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL). He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research, is on the faculty of the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of the Interuniversity Consortium on Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and serves on the Executive Committee of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS). His research deals with the development, software implementation and application of spatial analytical methods to social science research questions, with a focus on exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometrics. Dr. Anselin is also the developer of the SpaceStat™ software packages for spatial data analysis. He is an editor of the International Regional Science Review and serves on six other journal editorial boards in regional science and analytical geography.
Paul Bélanger is a geography graduate of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the University of Kentucky (M.A.). He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University at Buffalo - The State University of New York, in 2002. His research interests are in political geography, the electoral geography of Canada, and the application of spatial and GIS-based analysis to the study of political behavior. He has written on electoral districting, the geography of campaign tours, voter turnout, and party financing.
Itzhak Benenson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University. His scientific interests include theoretical and applied urban, social, and ecological modeling and simulation, GIS and its applications in archaeology, social science, demography, urban studies and management, software for agent-based simulation, spatial analysis, and data mining. He is a Deputy Head of the Environmental Simulation Laboratory of the Porter School of Environmental Studies University Tel Aviv, Head of the GIS Special Interest Group of the Israeli Geographic Society.
Brian J.L. Berry is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his B.Sc. (Economics) degree at University College, London in 1955, the M.A. in geography from the University of Washington in 1956 and the Ph.D. in 1958. He was a faculty member at the University of Chicago (1958-1976), where he chaired the geography department and directed the Center for Urban Studies; at Harvard (1976-1981), where he chaired the doctoral program in urban planning and directed the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis; and at Carnegie-Mellon (1981-1986), where he was dean of the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. He joined UTD in 1986, and was the founding director of the Bruton Center for Development Studies. The author of more than 500 books and articles, he was the most-cited geographer for more than 25 years from the early 1960s. In his work he has attempted to bridge theory and practice via involvement in development activities in both advanced and developing countries. When elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 he was the youngest social scientist so honored. Among others he also is a fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1988. In 1999 he was elected a member of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the first geographer to be so honored.
Bruce W. Boucek received both B.A. and M.A. degrees in geography from Temple University in Philadelphia. He is currently a graduate research assistant at the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT) and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at Indiana University. His recent work includes prediction of deforestation at the farm property level for ACT’s study region in the Amazon. His primary research interest is in the link between land use and land cover change and urbanization in the developing world. In the past, he has also worked as a graduate research assistant for the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC) at Indiana University.
Norman M. Bradburn is Assistant Director for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) of the National Science Foundation. He is on leave from the University of Chicago where he is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, and Vice President and Director of Research at the National Opinion Research Center. He served three terms as Director of the center, from 1967 to 1992, and was Provost of the University of Chicago from 1984 to 1989. Dr. Bradburn pioneered applications of cognitive psychology to questionnaire design and methodological problems in survey research. He is a member and former chair of the Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences; and a member of the Panel to Review the Statistical Procedures for the Decennial Census. He also is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the International Statistical Institute, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Ted Bradshaw received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently he is an Associate Professor in the Human and Community Development Department at the University of California, Davis. He teaches community development and economic development, and has recently published Planning Local Economic Development (Third Edition, with Edward Blakely) and journal articles on small business loan guarantees, land use and farmland conversion in the California central valley, complex community development organizations, and the environmental technology industry. He is currently working on a book on the California energy crisis. Prior to joining the faculty at the UC Davis in 1995, Bradshaw was a Research Sociologist at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley where he headed a series of studies on California’s economic development. He is the Editor of the Journal of the Community Development Society.
Hugh Calkins is Research Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo – The State University of New York, and a Research Scientist with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). He received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from the University of Washington in 1972, and recently completed a term as Chair of the Geography Department at UB. His primary research involves the use and value of geographic information in decision-making, and the use of GIS in understanding the human and social capital stock of communities.
Gilberto Câmara is Director for Earth Observation at INPE. He is an Eletronics Engineer (ITA, 1979) with a Ph.D. in Computer Science (INPE, 1995). His research interests are geographical information science, spatial databases, spatial analysis and remote sensing image processing. He has published more than 80 full papers in refereed journals and scientific conferences in Brazil and abroad. He has also been the leader in the development of GIS and image processing technology in Brazil, including the SPRING software, freely available on the Internet.
Jacqueline Cohen is Principal Research Scientist in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research, which spans thirty years, analyzes many aspects of crime and criminal justice policy, including demographic trends in crime and prison populations, criminal careers, and incapacitative effects of incarceration. Her work also examines various aspects of illegal drug use and its relationship to violent offending, and investigations of the effectiveness of policing strategies. Her most recent work pursues issues relating to firearm involvement among youthful offenders, including exploration of its links to youthful violence and the potential effectiveness of various law enforcement strategies pursued by local police. Dr. Cohen also has contributed to the work of several panels convened by the National Research Council to examine research on deterrence and incapacitation, sentencing policy, patterns of offending during criminal careers, and the understanding and control of violent behavior.
Patrick Daly is conducting research at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, focusing upon the development of cultural landscapes from the Late Bronze Age through the Iron Age in South Central England. As part of this research GIS has been used extensively to explore the movement and deposition of material culture across the landscape. His academic interests lie in landscape archaeology, long-term regional development, material culture and social theory, and the practical and theoretical application of GIS in anthropology and archaeology. He has conducted fieldwork and led teams in northern Scandinavia, Karalia, the United Kingdom, Jordan, Syria, Peru, and Borneo. He has published a number of papers on the use of GIS in archaeology and ethnoarchaeology, and is currently editing a volume, Digital Archaeology, for Routledge Press.
Munroe Eagles is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo – The State University of New York. He is also a Research Scientist with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA). He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 1988. His main research interests are in the political and electoral geography of advanced industrial societies.
Guy Engelen is Director of the Research Institute for Knowledge Systems in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Following graduate work in geography at the (Flemish) Free University of Brussels in Belgium, he worked on spatial modeling with the interdisciplinary group headed by Nobel prizewinner I. Prigogine in Brussels. Since coming to Maastricht, he has built the Institute into a leading research and consultancy group in geographical systems. Two of his current areas of interest are the extension of geoinformatics to encompass the effects of dynamic processes, and the development of effective spatial decision support systems.
Edward J. Feser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches courses in urban and regional economics and local development policy. His research focuses on industry cluster analysis and policy, regional influences on process technology adoption in manufacturing, external economies and industrial productivity, regional distress and economic adjustment, and the development of improved data and spatial-analytical techniques for local development practice. The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and state and local development agencies in eight states have funded his research. He is co-author of Understanding Local Economic Development, published by Rutgers' CUPR Press in 1999.
Tony Gatrell is Professor of the Geography of Health at Lancaster University, and also Director of the Institute for Health Research, which was created in 1996. He has a First Class Honours degree from Bristol University and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, where the influence of Peter Gould was considerable. He began his career at Salford University, before subsequently moving to Lancaster. His research interests lie primarily in geographical epidemiology, spatial analysis, and the geography of health care provision, but with an underlying interest in health inequalities. He has recently written Geographies of Health: an Introduction, published by Blackwells in 2002, and is the author or editor of three other books and numerous research papers. Currently, he is involved in several projects, including ‘Cultivating health’, a project that is assessing the mental health and well-being benefits of gardening among older people in deprived areas. Other recent and on-going projects include: care preferences for people with cancer and local geographies of health inequality. He hopes that a spatial imagination informs all this work.
Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Chair of the Executive Committee of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) and Director of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science. He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, and holds honorary doctorates from Laval University and Keele University. He is a past Editor of Geographical Analysis and the current Editor of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Dr. Goodchild is a member of editorial boards for ten other journals and book series and is the author of some 300 scientific papers and several books. He was Chair of the National Research Council’s Mapping Science Committee, and is currently a member of NRC's Committee on Geography. His research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, the future of the library, and uncertainty in geographic data.
Jean-Michel Guldmann is Professor of City and Regional Planning at The Ohio State University (OSU). He holds a Master’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ecole des Mines, Nancy, France, and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He is also a Faculty Associate at Argonne National Laboratory. At OSU, he teaches courses in energy planning and policy, and in quantitative methods. His research interests center on environmental, energy, and telecommunication issues, including: (1) the development of optimization models for air-quality management and pollution sources location, and of statistical models explaining pollution concentrations in urban areas; (2) the development of management, planning, and pricing models for natural gas utilities, and of econometric models of the cost structure of local gas and electricity distribution networks; and (3) the analysis of economies of scale and density of local telephone systems, and the estimation of point-to-point spatial interaction models of telephone traffic at the regional and international scales. The National Science Foundation and the Ameritech Foundation have supported his telecommunications research.
Donald G. Janelle is a Research Professor and Program Director for the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His Ph.D. in geography is from Michigan State University. He is former Chair of the Geography Department at the University of Western Ontario. Research interests include urban-regional spatial-systems development and time-space convergence, information technologies and the transformation of social space, transportation geography, and the time geography of cities and human activity patterns. A recently co-edited book Information, Place, and Cyberspace: Issues in Accessibility (Springer-Verlag, 2000) captures the interrelationship among his research interests. He is the North American co-leader of the STELLA Transatlantic Thematic Network’s focus group on ICT, Innovation and the Transport System, and he is a recipient of the Association of American Geographer’s Ullman Award for career research contributions to transportation geography.
John Kantner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He received his doctoral degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1999, where he studied archaeology, geography, and GIS. His research focuses on how evolutionary theory and human behavioral ecology can help us understand the emergence of sociopolitical differentiation and complexity. These issues are investigated in the prehistoric Southwest, in particular reference to the evolution of the Chaco Anasazi tradition. Dr. Kantner employs a variety of methodological approaches in his research, including geochemical techniques, GIS and geographical analyses, and ceramic stylistic approaches. Publications have appeared in Historical Archaeology, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Human Nature, and in numerous edited volumes. He recently co-edited Great House Communities Across the Chacoan Landscape, published by University of Arizona Press, and he is editor of the Society for American Archaeology’s trade magazine, The SAA Archaeological Record.
Mei-Po Kwan is Associate Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University and holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is currently an associated faculty of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, and the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at OSU. Dr. Kwan is Associate Editor of Geographical Analysis and serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board of The Canadian Geographer. She has also served as the guest editor of special issues for Gender, Place and Culture, Journal of Geographical Systems, and Cartographica. Her research interests include GIS-based geocomputation and 3D geovisualization, qualitative GIS, gender/ethnic issues in transportation and urban geography, new information technologies, feminist methodologies, cybergeography, and cyberspatial cognition. Her recent project explores the impact of Internet use on women’s activity patterns in space-time and the gender division of household labor.
Jiyeong Lee holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the Ohio State University, and is Assistant Professor of Geography at Minnesota State University. He received first prizes in the Association of American Geographers GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition and the Integraph Student Award from the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). His research and teaching interests focus on feature-based 3D GIS data models, land information systems in urban and regional planning, internal spatial structure of urban forms, pedestrian accessibility in 3D urban space, and 3D urban virtual reality systems. His current project develops a Community Geospatial Data Hub, accessed through the Internet.
Gary Lock is a University Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Oxford based in both the Institute of Archaeology and the Department for Continuing Education. He has a long-standing interest in the use of computers in archaeology, especially the application of GIS to landscape studies based on his fieldwork projects in England, Spain, and Italy. He is an editor of the Archaeological Computing Newsletter, has published many papers, written Virtual Pasts: using computers in archaeology (due 2003, Routledge), Digging Numbers: elementary statistics for archaeologists (with Mike Fletcher, 1991, Oxford University and Oxbow Books), and has edited Archaeology and Geographic Information Systems: a European Perspective (with Zoran Stancic, 1995, Taylor and Francis), Beyond the Map: Archaeology and Spatial Technologies (2000, IOS Press), and On the Theory and Practice of Archaeological Computing (with Kayt Brown, 2000, Oxford University and Oxbow Books).
John R. Logan is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY and Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research. His books include Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (California 1987), Beyond the City Limits: Urban Policy and Economic Restructuring in Comparative Perspective (Temple 1990), and The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform (Blackwell 2002). He is a member of the editorial boards of Urban Affairs Review, Sociological Forum, Journal of Urban Affairs, and City and Community. He also founded and directs the Urban China Research Network, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Steven F. Messner is Professor of Sociology and Chair at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR). His research has focused primarily on the relationship between social organization and crime, with a particular emphasis on criminal homicide. Recently, he has been studying the spatial distribution of violent crime, social capital and homicide rates, crime and delinquency in China, and the situational dynamics of violence. In addition to his publications in professional journals, he is co-author of Crime and the American Dream (Wadsworth), Perspectives on Crime and Deviance (Prentice Hall), Criminology: An Introduction Using ExplorIt (MicroCase), and co-editor of Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime (SUNY Press) and Crime and Social Control in a Changing China (Greenwood Press).
Emilio F. Moran is the James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Adjunct Professor of Geography, Director of the Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT), and co-Director of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change (CIPEC). He is also Lead Scientist of the Land Use Cover Change (LUCC) Focus 1-Land Use Dynamics Office. Dr. Moran is the author of six books, nine edited volumes and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is trained in anthropology, tropical ecology, tropical soil science, and remote sensing. His research has focused on the Amazon for the past 30 years.
Jeffrey Morenoff is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Associate at both the Population Studies Center and the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan. His major interests include crime, health, urban neighborhoods, and the analysis of spatial data. He is currently conducting research on the neighborhood context and spatial dynamics of infant health, differences across generations of Mexican immigrants and racial/ethnic groups in adolescent crime and problem behavior, and the systematic social observation of urban neighborhoods.
Brian Muller is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Denver. Brian received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches in the areas of environmental planning, planning methods, and spatial analysis, and his research interests include urban and regional growth dynamics, application of decision support systems, and environmental assessment methods.
David O'Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Geography at The Pennsylvania State University. Research interests include modeling socio-spatial phenomena, particularly urban growth and social change at the micro-scale of parcels, blocks and neighborhoods. He is also interested in developing methods for the detailed representation of spatial configuration in contemporary 'complex' modeling techniques such as cellular automata and multi-agent simulations, while at the same time exploring the rich possibilities of these approaches for the representation of individuals and societies in geographical information science and systems.
Sergio J. Rey earned his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an Associate Professor of Geography at the San Diego State University and an Adjunct Associate Research Professor at the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rey's research interests include regional economic growth and income inequality, spatial econometrics, open source geocomputation, integrated multiregional socioeconomic modeling, and regional industry cluster analysis. He has published widely on these areas in such journals as Geographical Analysis, Regional Studies, Growth and Change, Environment and Planning A, The International Regional Science Review, Economic Systems Research as well as in several edited volumes. His research has been funded from such public agencies as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the California Employment Development Department, and the Southwest Center for Environmental Policy and Research. In 1998 he received the Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Distinguished Young Scholars Award from the North American Regional Science Council. Rey is an editor of the International Regional Science Review and he serves on the editorial boards of Geographical Analysis and Papers in Regional Science.
Jan Rigby’s career as a geographer began in 1990 with the M.Sc. course in GIS at Edinburgh University. After a few years of lecturing in GIS within a business school environment, she moved to Lancaster University to study for a Ph.D. in breast cancer epidemiology, which was completed in 1999. Tony Gatrell, from whom she is still learning, supervised the work. Following lectureships in geography departments at Bristol and Lancaster universities, she moved to New Zealand to develop the GIS courses at Victoria University of Wellington. She is currently working to establish a joint health geoinformatics facility with the Ministry of Health, aimed at public health applications of GIS. Her main research interests are spatial epidemiology, poverty, and the health of underserved populations.
Robert J. Sampson is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation and Scientific Director of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. His book with John Laub, Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life (Harvard, 1993), received the outstanding scholarship award from the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association. For 2002-03, Sampson was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California. He was formerly the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
Qing Shen is Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds a Ph.D. degree in City and Regional Planning from University of California, Berkeley. His areas of research and teaching are urban modeling, analytical methods, and metropolitan planning, with a special interest in the effects of transportation, telecommunication, and information technologies on the spatial structure of cities and regions. Funding for his research has come from various foundations and government agencies, including the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. He is the author of many scholarly publications, which include “A Spatial Analysis of Job Openings and Access in a U.S. Metropolitan Area, ” in Journal of the American Planning Association; “New Telecommunications and Residential Location Flexibility,” in Environment and Planning A; “An Approach to Representing the Spatial Structure of the Information Society,” in Urban Geography; and “Spatial and Social Dimensions of Commuting” in Journal of the American Planning Association. He was formerly Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT.
Aldaíza Sposati is Secretary for Social Services for the City of São Paulo and Full Professor in the Social Services Graduate School at the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC/SP). She holds a Ph.D. in Social Services (PUC/SP, 1987) and a post-doctorate at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Her research deals with public policies for social security, with an emphasis on the use of census data and maps for exploring social inequalities. She has published 10 books, and advised 6 Ph.D. and 28 Ms.C. students at PUC/SP. Bas Straatman took a Master’s degree in mathematics at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and has since worked with the Maastricht Technological Research Institute for Knowledge and Systems, primarily in the area of applications of cellular automata to spatial decision support systems. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Bas Straatman took a Master's degree in mathematics at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, and has since worked with the Maastricht Technological Research Institute for Knowledge and Systems, primarily in the area of applications of cellular automata to spatial decision support systems. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Stuart H. Sweeney is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an executive committee member of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science and a faculty affiliate/advisor for the Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences graduate emphasis at UC Santa Barbara. His research is broadly focused on modeling local labor market dynamics in an interregional setting. Specific research themes related to local labor markets include modeling occupational migration and mobility processes, studying the economic effects of depopulation, and modeling agglomeration as spatial point process. He is currently engaged in research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Science Foundation.
George E. Tita is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at he University of California – Irvine. He received his Ph.D. (1999) from the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon. His research interests include the study of inter-personal violence, urban street gangs, the intersection of social network and spatial analysis, and the community context of crime. Dr. Tita has employed GIS and spatial analysis in his publications focusing on the territories of urban youth gangs, the spatial diffusion of homicide, and the design and implementation of a gun-violence reduction strategy within several neighborhoods of Los Angeles. He (along with Jacqueline Cohen) has served as a guest editor for a special edition of the Journal of Quantitative Criminology dedicated to research examining the diffusion of violence. Dr. Tita is also a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR), a research and training center funded by the National Science Foundation specializing in violence research.
John R. Weeks is Professor of Geography and Director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University. He received his A.B. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966, his M.A. in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, and his Ph.D. in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972. He taught at Michigan State University for three years prior to accepting an appointment at San Diego State University in 1974. He is the author of the best-selling text in demography, Population: Introduction to Concepts and Issues, which is now in its eighth edition, and he is currently the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation funded project that aims to integrate remotely sensed imagery, GIS, and spatial statistical analysis into the study of the Arab fertility transition in Egypt and Jordan.
Roger White is University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and since 1990 has also been associated with the Research Institute for Knowledge Systems in Maastricht, the Netherlands, as Senior Scientist. A geographer, he works primarily in the area of urban and regional modeling, and is interested particularly in developing new approaches to understanding the dynamics and evolution of geographical systems.
Wenquan Zhang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY. He is co-author of several articles on ethnic residential patterns. His dissertation focuses on secondary migration of Asian and Hispanic immigrants, analyzing population flows to areas outside the traditional points of entry in the United States.
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