Sociology Professors Publish Research on Race-Related Topics
Two faculty members in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences' Sociology Department have recently had their research published in scholarly journals. The professors and their research are:
- Associate Professor Jeff Timberlake: Sun Belt Rising: Regional Population Change and the Decline in Black Residential Segregation, 1970-2009 published in Pathways
- Assistant Professor Littisha Bates: Does it matter if teachers and schools match the student?: Racial and Ethnic disparities in problem behaviors published in Social Science Research
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at the University of Cincinnati specializes in the study of social inequality. More specifically, its faculty focus on community and urban sociology; health and medicine; race and ethnicity; and gender and sexuality.
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