I am Deputy Provost, Vice Provost for Social Sciences, and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. I am also active in the Center for the Study of Inequality, and as a member of the Cornell University Diversity Council. My work focuses on race and ethnicity, stratification, and public policy. Specific research projects have investigated:

• race, ethnicity, and higher education,
• mixed-race identity and interracial relationships,
• residential mobility, and
• racial differences in suburbanization

My recent book is The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist (co-edited with Ann Lin, 2008).

Here is my curriculum vitae.

On the home front, I have been married since 1993 to Anne. Our first child, Eve, was born 9/24/97. Our second, Olivia, was born 8/27/99.

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