ON-GOING RESEARCH

RESEARCH TOWARD PUBLICATION

Segregation by Class

I study residential segregation by class, particularly with in the Chicago metropolitan region. I'm interested in class differences within the trational racial/ethnic groups: black, white, asian, hispanic. I've given several conference presentations on this and published in the Bulletin of the IGS (Spring 2011), and hope to expand my research when the 2010 census is released.

When I work with a student doing a thesis project I expect them to submit their work, in a condensed form, to a juried journal in the end. Most have done that, with good success.

Innovations

For many years I tried to create a NEIU forum for informal communication between students. In the late 1990s I implemented software that allowed anonymous posts. It was called Bughouse, after an early speakeasy held on campus in the 1960s. It ignited. However after several months of exponential growth I had to end the experiment because of the anonymity issue. Years later a student and I created a new version of Bughouse, which required login. The service still exists but has become obsolete in the post-facebook era.

I've made an interactive whiteboard with a Wii remote control and an infrared lightbulb, using software developed by a brilliant Jimmy Lee (see his TED Talk), and hardware I picked up at Home Depot. I'd like to link students for carpooling, and find a good inexpensive cell-phone clicker for classroom use. I haven't published anything in these fields but have spend a lot of time working on them.