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Chad R. Farrell

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 2005
M.A., Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 1996
B.A., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 1994

Office: SSB 360
Phone: 907-786-1759
Email: afcrf@uaa.alaska.edu

Research
  • Urban inequality
  • Residential segregation
  • Community and neighborhood change
  • Social demography
Teaching Responsibilites
  • Introduction to Sociology (SOC 101)
  • Demography (SOC 307)
  • Urban Sociology (SOC 309)
  • Social Science Research Methods (SOC/PS 361)
Professional and Departmental Service
  • Chair, Undergraduate Research Grants Social Sciences Award Faculty Panel, University Honors College, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Faculty Senator, Social Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Member, Institutional Review Board, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Member, Task Force on Undergraduate Research & Scholarship, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Member, Dean’s Advisory Council on Scientific Research, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage
  • Reviewer:  American Sociological Review (2), City & Community (1), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1), Journal of Urban Affairs (1), Polar Geography (1), Social Problems (1), The Sociological Quarterly (2), Sociological Methods & Research (1), Social Psychology Quarterly (1), Social Science Research (1), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (5), Urban Geography (1), Urban Studies (2)
Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

2009.  Reardon, S.F., C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews, D. O’Sullivan and K. Bischoff.  “Race and Space in the 1990s: Changes in the Spatial Scale of Racial Residential Segregation, 1990-2000” Social Science Research  38(1):55-70.

2008.  Farrell, C.R. "Bifurcation, Fragmentation, or Integration? The Racial and Geographic Structure of Metropolitan Segregation, 1990-2000." Urban Studies  45(3): 467-499.

2008. Lee, B.A., S.F. Reardon, G. Firebaugh, C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews and D. O’Sullivan. “Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Residential Segregation at Multiple Scales.” American Sociological Review  73(5):766-787.

2008. Reardon, S.F., S.A. Matthews, D. O’Sullivan, B.A. Lee, G. Firebaugh, C.R. Farrell and K. Bischoff.  “The Geographic Scale of Metropolitan Racial Segregation.” Demography  45:489-514.

2005.  Farrell, C.R.  “Sharing Neighborhoods: Order and Disorder in Homeless-Domiciled Encounters.”  American Behavioral Scientist  48(8):1033-1054.

2005. Lee, B.A. and C.R. Farrell.  "The Sheltered Homeless in Metropolitan Neighborhoods: Evidence from the 1990 and 2000 Censuses."  Pp. 285-310 in Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Volume II, edited by Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert E. Lang.  Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

2004. Lee, B.A., C.R. Farrell and B.G. Link.  “Revisiting the Contact Hypothesis: The Case of Public Exposure to Homelessness.” American Sociological Review 69(1):40-63.

2003. Lee, B.A. and C.R. Farrell.  “Buddy Can You Spare a Dime? Panhandling, Homelessness, and the Public.”  Urban Affairs Review  38(3):299-324.

1997. Farrell, C.R.  “Durkheim, Moral Individualism, and the Dreyfus Affair.”  Current Perspectives in Social Theory 17:313-330.


Selected Conference Presentations and Colloquia


2009.
Farrell, C.R. and B.A. Lee.  “When the Majority Doesn’t Rule: Racially Diverse Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Chicago (March 7).

2008.
Farrell, C.R.  “Racial Diversity and Residential Segregation in a Frontier City: Patterns and Trends.”  At the Alaska Visionaries Conference of the Alaska Historical Society, Anchorage (October 17).

2008.
Farrell, C.R. and B.A. Lee.  “Neighborhood Racial Change in the Multiethnic Metropolis.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland (April 12).

2008.  Lee, B.A.,
C.R. Farrell, S.F. Reardon, G. Firebaugh, and S.A. Matthews.  “From Census Tracts to Local Environments: An Egocentric Approach to Neighborhood Change.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Baltimore (April 25).

2008.
Farrell, C.R.  “The Effects of Segregation on Racial Health Disparities.”  At the EPSCoR Social Science Resilience Group Meeting, University of Alaska Anchorage (March 21).

2007.  Lee, B.A.,
C.R. Farrell, and S.F. Reardon.  “Racial Segregation in City and Suburb: Do Patterns Vary by Spatial Scale?”  At the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Seattle (April 28).

2007.  Reardon, S.F., B.A. Lee,
C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews, G. Firebaugh, and K. Bischoff.  “Patterns and Trends in the Spatial Scale and Magnitude of Racial Residential Segregation, 1980-2000.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles (March 29). 

2006.  Lee, B.A., S.F. Reardon, G. Firebaugh,
C.R. Farrell, S.A. Matthews and D. O’Sullivan.  “Beyond the Census Tract: Patterns and Determinants of Racial Residential Segregation at Multiple Scales.”  Colloquium at the Population Research Institute, Penn State University, University Park (November 28).

2006.  Lee, B.A., G. Firebaugh,
C.R. Farrell, S.F. Reardon, and D. O’Sullivan.  “Patterns and Correlates of Racial Residential Segregation: A Spatially Refined Approach.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles (April 1).

2006.  Reardon, S.F., S. Matthews, D. O’Sullivan, G. Firebaugh, B.A. Lee, and
C.R. Farrell.  “Segregation and Scale: The Use and Interpretation of Spatial Segregation Profiles for Investigating the Causes, Patterns, and Consequences of Residential Segregation.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles (March 31).

2005.
Farrell, C.R. and B.A. Lee.  “Side by Side? The Elusive Goal of Racial Integration in an Urban Neighborhood.”  At an invited panel discussion entitled “Perspectives on Racism and Discrimination,” Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska (November 3).

2005.  Lee, B.A. and
C.R. Farrell.  “From Sow's Ear to Silk Purse: The Reconstruction of Community Identity in Gentrifying Neighborhoods.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Salt Lake City.

2003.
Farrell, C.R.  “Displacement or Replacement? Gentrification and Racial Change in a Nashville Neighborhood.”  At the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta.

2003.
Farrell, C.R.  “Immigrant Enclaves or Ethnic Communities? Patterns of Hmong Segregation in the United States.”  At the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Cleveland.
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