Faculty

Office: Manchester Hall 321
Telephone: 860 486-4425
E-Mail: mary.fischer@uconn.edu

Biographical Statement:

Mary Fischer joined the University of Connecticut in the fall of 2004 after completing a post-doc at Princeton University .  Her research interests broadly defined concern processes of stratification, particularly by race and ethnicity.  Some of the topics she has studied include minorities in higher education, residential segregation, and immigration.  She is currently working on a project funded by the Russell Sage Foundation profiling new immigrant destinations.

Education:

PhD 2003 University of Pennsylvania (Demography and Sociology)

AM 1999 University of Pennsylvania (Demography)

BA 1997 College of Wooster (Urban Studies)

Selected Publications:

Fischer, Mary J. Forthcoming 2007 'Shifting Geographies: Examining the Role of Suburbanization in Black's Declining Segregation.' Urban Affairs Review .

Fischer, Mary J. 2007. 'Settling into Campus Life: Differences by Race/Ethnicity in College Involvement and Outcomes.' Journal of Higher Education 78(2): 125-161.

Fischer, Mary J. and Douglas S. Massey. 2007. 'The Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education' Social Science Research 38:531-549.

Fischer, Mary J., and Marta Tienda 2006. 'Redrawing Spatial Color Lines: Hispanic Metropolitan Dispersion, Segregation and Economic Opportunity', pp. 100-137 in Hispanics and the Future of America , National Academies Press.

Fischer, Mary J. 2003. 'The Relative Importance of Class and Race in Determining Residential Outcomes in U.S. Urban Areas, 1970-2000' Urban Affairs Review . 38(5):669-696.

Massey, Douglas S., Camille Z. Charles, Garvey Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer. 2003. Source of the River: The Social Origins of Freshmen at America 's Selective Colleges and Universities . Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press.

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