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
Seth Spielman (Associate Director) is a geographer and an urban planner, he is the
Associate Director of the S4 Initiative. He recently completed a
National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship in Geographic Information
Science at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
in the Geography Department at State University of New York at
Buffalo. From 1999-2006 he was at the Columbia University Graduate
School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, first as a masters
student and later as an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Adjunct
Associate Research Scientist. His writing has appeared in the Journal
of the American Planning Association, The American Journal of Public
Health, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, and other academic
outlets.
Hyoung-jin Shin
( Postdoctoral Research Associate ) is a sociologist and demographer with research interests in immigration, race/ethnicity, and urban sociology. Since the summer of 2007, he has been working on a research project at S4 which investigates the relationship between marital and spatial assimilation of European ethnic groups utilizing newly available complete microdata record of the 1880 Census. Beyond his post-doctoral project, his research interest lies in the topics of immigration studies including bilingualism, ethnic economies, and immigrant labor markets.
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.
Sinem Adar is a 2nd year doctoral student in Sociology. She obtained a masters degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics in 2004. Her research interests are mainly in urban and political sociology, with a particular focus on Turkey. She is working on the project for the creating of a census-based HGIS for the thirty largest US cities in 1880.
Weiwei Zhang is a 4th year graduate student in Sociology. Her primary research interests include immigration assimilation and race/ethnic segregation in the U.S., and spatial demorgaphy in general. Her training at Brown in spatial and other quantitative methods has led to numerous applications using these methods. The focus of her current research is on the impact of recent immigration flows on minority residential patterns. She is also working on historical racial/ethnic residential segregation in U.S. cities using the 1880 Census. At Brown, she is affiliated with both S4 and the Population Studies and Training Center.
The S4 staff includes two 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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