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James Elliott

Associate Professor

Address:
618 PLC
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403 		Phone: (541) 346-5267
Fax: (541) 346-5026
Email: elliott@uoregon.edu

Professor Elliott received his B.A. in Sociology from University of California-Santa Cruz in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Sociology (minor in Geography) from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. He trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina's Population Center from 1997 to 1999 and then took a position in the sociology department at Tulane University from 1999-2006. He joined the University of Oregon faculty as an Associate Professor of sociology in 2006. His scholarship has focused on urban development and social inequalities in the United States, ranging from research on native- and foreign-born migration, racial and gender inequalities in the labor market, struggles over public housing, and social vulnerabilities to environmental hazards. His research has employed a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods and has received funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Science Foundation.

Research Interests

  • racial stratification
  • immigrant networks
  • gender, family and work
  • social and demographic transformation of post-Katrina New Orleans
         

Teaching Areas

  • social inequality
  • urban & community change
  • economic sociology

Courses Taught

SOC 346 Work and Occupations
SOC 451 Social Stratification

Selected Articles

Elliott, James R. and Jeremy Pais. 2006. “Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster.” Social Science Research 35: 295-321.

Elliott, James R. and Ryan A. Smith. 2004. “Race, Gender and Workplace Power.” American Sociological Review 69(3): 365-386.

Elliott, James R., Kevin Fox Gotham and Melinda J. Milligan. 2004. “Framing the Urban: Struggles over HOPE VI and the New Urbanism in an Historic City.” City & Community 3(4): 373-394.

Elliott, James R. and Marilyn S. Joyce. 2004. “The Effects of Race and Family Structure on Women's Spatial Relationship to the Labor Market” Sociological Inquiry 74(3): 411-435.

Elliott, James R. and Marcel Ionescu. 2003. “Post-War Immigration to the Deep South Triad: What Can a Peripheral Region Tell Us about Immigrant Settlement and Employment?” Sociological Spectrum 23: 159-180.

Smith, Ryan and James R. Elliott. 2002. “Does Ethnic Concentration Influence Access to Authority? An Examination of Contemporary Urban Labor Markets.” Social Forces 81(1): 255-279.

lliott, James R. and Mario Sims. 2001. “Ghettos and Barrios: The Impact of Neighborhood Ethnicity and Poverty on Job Matching among Blacks and Latinos.” Social Problems 48(3): 341-361.

Education

Ph.D. -- University of Wisconsin-Madison