April, 2020
CURRICULUM VITAE
John E. Farley
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL 
Telephone: (618) 692-1960 (Home)
Email: jfarley@siue.edu or jfarley@johnefarley.com 

Professional Interests
Race and ethnic relations, urban sociology, human ecology, residential segregation, applied sociology, environmental design and behavior, sociology of health care delivery, social response to disaster predictions, disaster warning processes.

Courses Taught:
Race and Ethnic Relations, Urban Sociology, Introductory Sociology, Research Methods (undergraduate and graduate), Demography, Social Problems, Graduate Seminar in Intergroup Relations, Urban Social Problems, University Experience (Freshman Orientation Course), Sociology Senior Assignment Seminar, Advanced Data Analysis (graduate).

Formal Education:
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1977.
M.U.P., University of Michigan, 1975.
M.A., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1973.
B.A., Political Science, Michigan State University, 1971  ("High Honors," Phi Beta Kappa, Merit Scholar).

Positions Held:
Chair, Department of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE), July 2002 through June, 2005.
Professor of Sociology, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE), July 1986 through May, 2006 (retired and designated Professor Emeritus June 1, 2006). Associate Professor July 1982 - June 1986. Assistant Professor August 1977 - June 1982. Tenure granted May 1981. (See Courses Taught, above.)
Research Associate, Regional Research and Development Services (RRDS) (formerly Center for Urban and Environmental Research and Services), SIUE, fall 1981 - to summer, 1993.
Instructor of Sociology, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Minnesota, fall 1976 - 1977. (Introductory Sociology, Urban Sociology, Population, Social Problems, Social aspects of Planning, Race Relations)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, fall 1974 - spring 1976. (Introductory Sociology)
Interviewer, Department of Sociology, Detroit Area Study, University of Michigan, summer 1973.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, winter 1973. (Urban Research Methods)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, fall 1972. (Study of Cities and Urbanization)

Publications:
2019
“Five Decisive States: Examining How and Why Donald Trump Won the 2016 Election”  The Sociological Quarterly 60, 3: 337-353, DOI 10.1080/00380253.2019.1629847

2018
(with Michael Flota) Sociology, 7th edition.  New York: Routledge.  596 pp.

2012
“Unique Opportunities in Higher Education: Some Thoughts From a Retired Sociology Professor.”  Pp. 159-166 in Larry LaFond, William Ratzlaff, and Aldemaro Romero (eds.), After the Academy: Memories of Teaching and Learning in the Land of Lincoln, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
(with Michael Flota) Sociology, 6th edition.  Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.  640 pp.  Published in August, 2011 with 2012 Copyright.

2010
Majority-Minority Relations, 6th edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson Higher Education.  600 pp.  Published in July, 2009 with 2010 Copyright.
“Urban Underclass.”  Entry in James Thomas and Wanda Rushing (eds.), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 15, Urbanization.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 

2008
“Discrimination, Housing,” “Gautreaux Decision,” “Restrictive Covenants.”  Entries in Richard Schaefer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
“Even Whiter Than We Thought: What Median Residential Exposure Indices Reveal about White Neighborhood Contact with African Americans in U.S. Metropolitan Areas.”  Social Science Research 37, 2 (June): 604-623.

2007
“Call-to-Action Statements in Tornado Warnings: Do They Reflect Recent Developments in Tornado-Safety Research?”  International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 25: 1-36.
“How Not to Crack a Tough Nut” (Review of Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government’s Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs, by Christopher Bonastia.  Contexts 6, 2: 67-69
“The Impact of Earthquake Predictions on Earthquake Awareness and Preparedness: A Focus on the Browning Prediction and the Central United States.  Pp. 852-892 in Eugenie Rovai and Christine M. Rodigue (eds), Earthquakes, London: Routledge Press.  
"Metropolitan Statistical Area." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer, George (ed). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing and Blackwell Reference Online.  

2006
“School Integration and Its Consequences for Social Integration and Educational Opportunity.”  Pp. 57-67 in Friedrich Heckmann and Richard Wolf (eds.), Immigrant Integration and Education: The Role of State and Civil Society in Germany and the U.S.  Proceedings of Transatlantic Discourse on Migration Conference, July, 2005, Nuremberg, Germany. Conference Sponsored by European Forum for Migration Studies, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany.  

2005.
Majority-Minority Relations, fifth edition.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.  Published September 2004 with 2005 copyright.
(with Gregory D. Squires) “Fences and Neighbors: Segregation in 21st Century America”  Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, vol. 4, issue 1 (Winter, 2005), pp. 33-39.
“Residential Interracial Exposure and Isolation Indices: Mean vs. Median Indices, and the Difference It Makes.”  The Sociological Quarterly 46 (February, 2005): 19-45.
“Minority.”  Entry in Marrianne Klein Horowitz (ed.), New Dictionary of the History of Ideas.  Farmington Hills, Michigan: Charles Scribner and Sons (An Imprint of Thompson-Gale).
“Race, Not Class: Explaining Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 2000.” Sociological Focus 38, 2 (May, 2005): pp. 133-150.

2004
"Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area: Past, Present, and Future."  Pp. 193-216 in Brady Babeck and E. Terrence Jones (eds.), St. Louis Metromorphosis: Past Trends and Future Directions. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press.  (earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meetings of the Illinois Sociological Association, Chicago, October 23-24, 2003.)
“Spatial Mismatch and Access to Physicians Among African Americans: 
Initial Findings and Directions for Future Research” Edwardsville Journal of Sociology, vol. 4 (July, 2004).  World Wide Web, http://www.siue.edu/SOCIOLOGY/journal/v4farley.htm 

2003
Sociology, fifth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.  (602 pp.) [Published in July, 2002 with Copyright 2003.]
“An Attack on Iraq is Not Justified.”  Pp. 27-31 in William Dudley (ed.), Iraq: Opposing Viewpoints.  San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Thompson-Gale, 2003.

2002
"Contesting Our Everyday Work Lives: The Retention of Minority and Working Class Sociology Undergraduates" (2001 Midwest Sociological Society Presidential Address). The Sociological Quarterly 43 (Winter): 1-25.  
"Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 2000."  Edwardsville Journal of Sociology 2.  Available online at http://www.siue.edu/SOCIOLOGY/journal/FARLEYV2.HTM

2000
"Using the Prime Time Live 'True Colors' Video with a Survey on Beliefs About Race and Equal Opportunity." 2000. Pp. 100-108 in Howard J. Ehrlich and Regina Fidazzo (eds.), Teaching About Ethnoviolence and Hate Crime: A Resource Guide. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
Majority-Minority Relations, Fourth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (594 pp., available August 1, 1999).

1998
Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America. Carbondale and Edwardville: Southern Illinois University Press. (Hardcover and paperback editions, 198 pp.).
Sociology, fourth edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
"Down but Not Out: Earthquake Awareness and Preparedness Trends in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 1990-1997." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 16, 3 (November, 1998).
 
1995
"Race Still Matters: The Minimal Role of Income and Housing Cost as Causes of Housing Segregation in St. Louis, 1990." Urban Affairs Review (formerly Urban Affairs Quarterly) 31 (November): 244-254.
Majority-Minority Relations, third edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (516 pp.)
(with Cui-xia Zhang) "Gender and the Distribution of Household Work: A Comparison of Self-Reports by Female College Faculty in the United States and China." Journal of Comparative Family Studies 26, 2 (Summer, 1995): 195-205.

1994
Sociology, third edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (660 pp.)
"Twentieth Century Wars: Some Short-Term Effects on Intergroup Relations in the United States." Sociological Inquiry 64, 2 (Spring): 214-237.
"Sustained Preparedness or Cry Wolf?: New Madrid Earthquake Awareness and Preparedness Trends, October, 1990 - May, 1993." Pp. 1055-1065 in Earthquake Awareness and Mitigation Across the Nation: Proceedings, Fifth U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Chicago, July 10-14, Volume III. Oakland, CA: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
 
1993
"Public, Media, and Institutional Responses to the Iben Browning Earthquake Prediction: Editor's Introduction." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 11, 3 (November): 271-277.
(with Hugh D. Barlow, Marvin S. Finkelstein, and Larry Riley) "Earthquake Hysteria, Before and After: A Survey and Follow-up on Public Response to the Browning Forecast." International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 11, 3 (November): 305-321.
"Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 1980-1990: Comparing Trends at the Block and Census Tract Level." Journal of Urban Affairs 15, 6 (November): 515-527.
(with Marvin S. Finkelstein) "A Retention Program for Sociology Majors: Two Years of Experience with the ABle Program." Michigan Sociological Review 7: 48-59.
(with 14 co-authors; Committee on Preparedness, Awareness, and Public Education), Preparedness, Awareness, and Public Education, 1993 National Earthquake Conference, Monograph 3. Memphis, TN: Central United States Earthquake Consortium.

1992
American Social Problems: An Institutional Analysis, second edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (626 pp.)
Sociology, second edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. (698 pp.)

1991
"Combating Racial Polarization: A Sociologist's Contribution." Sociological Practice Review 2, 4 (October): 287-297.
"Housing Segregation in the City of St. Louis: A 1988 Update." Urban Affairs Quarterly 26 (March): 442-450.

1990
Sociology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. 680 pp.
"Substance Abuse Trends - Data Outlining Substance Abuse Prevalence." Chapter 2 in Substance Abuse Trends and Prevention Programs: A National and Local Perspective. Regional Research and Development Services Report to the United Ways of Madison County, Illinois.
"Evaluation." Chapter 6 in Fordyce Two: A Leadership Summit Sponsored by Confluence St. Louis. Report of St. Louis Leadership Summit on Racial Polarization. St. Louis: Confluence St. Louis.
 
1989
Black-White Housing Segregation in the City of St. Louis: a 1988 Update. Regional Research and Development Services Report. 35 pp. Content of this report was also presented at a research colloquium jointly sponsored by Regional Research and Development Services and Department of Sociology and Social Work at SIUE, November 29.

1988
Majority-Minority Relations, second edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Prentice Hall. 396 pp.

1987
American Social Problems: An Institutional Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. January, 1987; 589 pp.
"Suburbanization and Central City Crime Rates: New Evidence and a Reinterpretation." American Journal of Sociology 93,3: 688-700.
"Disproportionate Black and Hispanic Unemployment in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: The Roles of Racial Inequality, Segregation and Discrimination in Male Joblessness." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 46:129-150.
"Segregation in 1980: How Segregated are American Metropolitan Areas?" Pp. 95-114 in Gary Tobin (ed.), Divided Neighborhoods. Sage Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Vol. 32. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

1986
"Health Care." Pp. 43-47 in Ann Ruwitch (ed.), St. Louis Currents: The Community and Its Resources. St. Louis, MO.: Leadership St. Louis.
"Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville." Pp. 35-45 in Defining and Assessing Baccalaureate Skills: Ten Case Studies. Co-authored with Janet McReynolds and Robert Anderson. Washington, D.C.: American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
"Segregated City, Segregated Suburbs: To What Extent Are They Products of Black-White Socioeconomic Differentials?" Urban Geography, 7,2 (March): pp. 180-87.
"Activities and Pastimes of Children and Youth: Age, Sex and Parental Effects." In George Kurian (ed.), Parent-Child Interaction in Transition. Westport, CT: Greenwoods Press. (Reprint of my 1979 article of the same title.)
 
1984
"P* Segregation Indices: What Can They Tell Us About Housing Segregation in 1980?" Urban Studies 21 (August), pp. 331-336.
"Housing Segregation in the School-Age Population and the Link Between Housing and School Segregation: A St. Louis Case Study," Journal of Urban Affairs 6, 4 (Fall), pp. 65-80.

1983
"Housing Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980: The St.Louis Case," Urban Affairs Quarterly 18 (March), pp. 347-359.

1982
American Housing in Transition, Co-authored with Robert Mendelson. Edwardsville, IL: CUERS Report No. 18, SIUE Center for Urban and Environmental Research and Services, July.
Segregated City, Segregated Suburbs: Are They the Products of Black-White Socioeconomic Differentials? Edwardsville, IL: CUERS Report No. 19, SIUE Center for Urban and Environmental Research and Services.
Majority-Minority Relations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. March 1982, 451 pp.
Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area: 1980. Edwardsville, IL: CUERS Report No. 17. SIUE Center for Urban and Environmental Research and Services, April.
"Has Public Housing Gotten a Bum Rap? The Incidence of Crime in St. Louis Public Housing Developments," Environment and Behavior 14, 4 (July), pp. 443-477.
"Black Male Unemployment in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: The Role of Black Central City Segregation and Job Decentralization," Journal of Urban Affairs 4 (Summer): 19-34.
"Effects of Higher Density Living on Children." Pp. 50-60 in Proceedings: The Impact of Energy Policy and Technology on the Family. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee, August.
 
1981
"The Ecological Context of Urban Crime: A Further Exploration." Co-authored with Mark Hansel. Urban Affairs Quarterly 17, 1, September 1981. 

1980
Disabled Persons in Madison County, Illinois and Their Housing Needs. Edwardsville, IL: CUERS report to Office of Community Development, Madison County, IL, January 1980.
 
1979
"Activities and Pastimes of Children and Youth: Age, Sex, and Parental Effects," Journal of Comparative Family Studies 10, 3: 385-410. Earlier version presented at Tri-College Sociology-Anthropology Convention, Moorhead, MN, 1977.
"High Rise Apartment or Detached House: What Are the Implications for Children's Behavior?" Pp. 145-161 in Walter E. Rogers and William H. Ittelson (eds.), New Directions in Environmental Design Research(EDRA9 Proceedings). Washington, DC: Environmental Design Research Association.
Effects of Residential Setting, Parental Lifestyle and Demographic Characteristics on Children's Activity Patterns: A Summary. Report to Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada), 78 pp.
 
1977
Effects of Residential Setting, Parental Lifestyle, and Demographic Characteristics on Children's Activity Patterns. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Michigan. (Under supervision of Charles Tilly.) Earlier version submitted as a report to Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada), 1976.

Academic Conference Presentations and Other Academic Papers.

2016
“Sociology to the People: Public, Applied, and Activist Sociology.”  Presentation to Sociology Club Symposium, St. Louis Community College Meramec Valley, April 7. 
2011
“How Much of What You Think You Know About Immigration is Really True?”  Presentation for “Dialogue With an SIUE Professor,” Main Street Community Center, Edwardsville, IL, June 23.
2009
“Observations in China Following the May 12, 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake.”  Roundtable presentation at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, IA, April 2.
2008
“Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area: Past, Present, and Future.”  Presentation at St. Louis Community College, Meramec, February.  Similar presentations were also given at Greenville College in 2006 and at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2004.
“SIUE: Is it Still Our Fount of Opportunity?  Changes in Access to an SIUE Education Over the Past Two Decades.”  Presentation to Panel on “Extending Opportunities, Achieving Excellence?: Exploring the Tension Between Accessible Admissions and Academic Excellence,” College of Arts and Sciences Symposium on “Thinking About the University,” April 10.  (Note: This is a revised and updated version of the presentation at Sociology and Criminal Justice Week in 2007.)
2007
“Anti-Discrimination, Diversity Management, and Affirmative Action Policies in the United States.”  Invited Presentation at Transatlantic Discourse on Migration, Workshop on Anti-Discrimination Policies in Germany and the U.S, Organized by the European Forum for Migration Studies and sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, July 13, Munich, Germany. 
“SIUE: Is it Still ‘Our Fount of Opportunity?’  Changes in Access to an SIUE Education Over the Past Two Decades.”  Paper presented at SIUE Sociology and Criminal Justice Week, Faculty and Student Research Session, April 10.
2006
“Call-to-Action Statements in Tornado Warnings: Do They Reflect Recent Developments in Tornado-Safety Research?”  Paper presented at the 2006 annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha, NE, March 30-April 2.  

“Institutionalized Racial and Economic Inequality, Poverty, Hurricane Katrina, and George Bush.”  Presentation at Symposium on the Thesis that “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People,” Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, February.
“Some Thoughts on the Past, Present, and Future of Sociology.”  Keynote Address, Sociology and Criminal Justice Week, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, April 6.  Subsequently presented as Keynote Address, Illinois Sociological Association Annual Meeting, October 5, Rock Island, IL.
2005
“School Integration and Its Consequences for Social Integration and Educational Opportunity.”   Presentation at "Integration and Education of Migrants: The Role of State and Civil Society,“ Transatlantic Discourse on Migration, Nuremberg, Germany, July 11-12. Conference organized by the European Forum for Migration Studies and sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
“Even Whiter Than we Thought: What Median Residential Exposure Indices Reveal about White Neighborhood Contact with African Americans.”  Paper presented at 2005 Joint Annual Meetings of the Illinois and Wisconsin Sociological Associations and the Wisconsin Political Science Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 13-14.
2004
“Racism and Discrimination: A Sociological Perspective.” Invited keynote address to conference on “Barriers to Integration and Efforts to Remove Them: Racism, Discrimination, and Anti-discrimination,” Berlin Germany, November 2, 2004.  Conference organized by the European Forum for Migration Studies and sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
“Call-to-action Statements in Tornado Warnings: To What Extent do they Reflect Recent Developments in Tornado Safety Research?”  Paper presented at annual meetings of the Illinois Sociological Association, October 14-15, Glen Ellyn, IL.
2003
“Residential Interracial Exposure Indices: Mean vs. Median Indices and the Difference it Makes.”  Paper presented at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, August 16-19.
“Race, Not Class: Explaining Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 2000.”  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, April 16-19, 2003.
2002
"Interracial Exposure Indices: A Case Where Average is Not Typical?"  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Milwaukee, WI, April.
"The Impact of the Social Movements of the 1960s and 70s on Race Relations in America Today: What Has Changed and What Has Not?"  Invited presentation at Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD (February), as part of semester-long symposium, "Rights and Riots - Wars and Watergate: American Democracy in the 1960s and 70s."
"Spatial Mismatch and Access to Physicians Among the African American Population of the Metro East Region: A Preliminary Analysis and Directions for Future Research."  Paper presented at the 2002 annual meetings of the Illinois Sociological Association, East St. Louis, October.
2001
"Contesting Our Everyday Work Lives: The Retention and Graduation of Minority and Working Class Sociology Majors." Presidential Address, Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, St. Louis, April 5-8. 
"Knowledge, Awareness, and Social Change: Joe Feagin, Sociology, and the Sociology of Race." Paper presented at special session, "Race, Racism, and Resistance: Papers in Honor of Joe R. Feagin," Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, St. Louis, April 5-8. 
"Teaching Techniques and Tools for Courses in Race and Ethnic Relations." Paper presented at Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, St. Louis, April 5-8.
"Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 2000."  Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Illinois Sociological Association, Rockford, October.  Versions of this paper were also presented at an SIUE Institute for Urban Research seminar (June, 2001) and in presentations at the annual conference of the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council (October, 2001), to the North County Churches United (January, 2002), and to St. Clair County Racial Harmony (April, 2002).
2000
"Community Diversity Effort Revisited: Focus St. Louis Takes On Race Again 10 Years Later." Presentation at the Annual Meetings of the Illinois Sociological Association, Joliet, IL, October 12-13. 
1999
"Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America." Invited Luncheon address at Mid-America Highway Seismic Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 1, 1999.
"Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America." Presentation to Departmental Symposium, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, St. Louis University, March 5, 1999.
1998
"Earthquake Awareness and Preparedness in Metropolitan St. Louis: A 1997 Update." Paper presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society.
"Using Powerpoint in a Graduate Statistics Course." Presentation at Annual Meeting of the Illinois Sociological Association, East St. Louis, IL, October 14-15.
"Earthquake Awareness and Household Preparedness Trends in the Central United States, 1990-97." Presentation to Mid-American Earthquake Center Fall Symposium, Rend Lake Resort, October 31.
1997
"Trends in Housing Segregation in Illinois Between African Americans and Whites, 1860-1990." Paper presented at Conference on African Americans in Illinois History: Community Building and Resistance in the Land of Lincoln, sponsored by Department of Historical Studies, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL.
"Teaching Urban Sociology in a 2-Week Workshop Format." Paper presented at annual meeting of the Illinois Sociological Association, Rockford, IL, October 30.
1996
"Forming and Funding a Non-Profit Fair Housing Organization: A Sociologist's Role." Paper presented at 1996 annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April 3-6.
1995
"The Klan is Coming; What Do We Do?: A Case Study and Some Key Issues in Response to Hate Group Activity." Paper presented at 1995 annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April 6-9.
1994
"Forming and Funding a Fair Housing Organization." Paper accepted for presentation at 1994 annual meetings of the Missouri Sociological Association, Osage Beach, MO, November 5. (Note: I was unable to make the presentation due to a death in the family).
1993
(with Marvin S. Finkelstein) "A Retention Program for Sociology Majors: Two Years of Experience with the ABle Program." Paper presented at Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology, St. Louis, MO, October 15-17.
"Is There Preparedness After Browning?: Earthquake Awareness, Knowledge, and Preparedness in Metropolitan St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, MO, and Sikeston, MO, July, 1992." Paper presented at Annual Meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology, St. Louis, MO, October 15-17. 
1992
"Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 1980-1990: Comparing Trends at the Block and Census Tract Level." Paper presented at the Fifth International Research Conference on Housing, Montreal, July 6-10.
"Twentieth Century Wars: Some Effects on Intergroup Relations in the United States." Paper invited and presented at Thematic Session on The Reconstruction of Society in the Aftermath of War, at 1992 Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 20-24.
(with Cui-Xia Zhang) "College Women Faculty and Household Work in the United States and China." Paper presented at 1992 annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, April 2-5. 
"White Voter Support for Black Political Candidates in Central and Southwest Illinois." Paper presented at 1992 annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City, April 2-5.
1991
"Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 1990." Paper presented at 1991 Annual Meeting of the Illinois Sociological Association, Chicago (October 18). 
(with Hugh D. Barlow, Marvin S. Finkelstein, Larry Riley, and Lewis G. Bender), "1990 Midwest Earthquake Scare: Public Response to a Psuedoscientific Forecast of Disaster." Paper presented at UCLA International Conference on the Impact of Natural Disasters: Agenda for Future Action, Los Angeles (July 10).
(with Hugh D. Barlow, Lewis Bender, Marvin Finkelstein, and Larry Riley), "Earthquake Hysteria, Before and After: A Survey and Follow-Up on Public Response to the Browning Forecast." Paper presented at Research Conference on Public and Media Response to Earthquake Forecasts, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL (May 16-18).
(with Hugh D. Barlow, Lewis Bender, Marvin Finkelstein, and Larry Riley), "Earthquake Hysteria: Public Response to a Psuedoscientific Forecast of Disaster." Paper presented at 1991 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines (April).
"The Role of a Sociologist in a Community Effort to Reduce Racial Polarization and Inequality." Paper presented at 1991 Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Dearborn, MI (April).
1990
"The White Vote for Jesse Jackson in the 1988 Democratic Primaries and Caucuses." Paper presented at 1990 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April 11-14.
"Geographic Information System: New Tool in Urban Sociology." Co-authored with Hugh D. Barlow. Paper Presented at 1990 Joint Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association and the Southern Sociological Society, Louisville, KY, March 22-25. Revised version submitted for publication.

1989
"Racial Segregation in Housing: 1980 and Beyond." Paper presented at 1989 Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Akron, OH, April. Earlier version presented at Wayne State University Sociology Department Colloquium, February, Detroit, Michigan.
"Black-White Housing Segregation in St. Louis, MO: A 1988 Update." Paper presented at 1989 Joint Annual Meeting of the Illinois Sociological Association and the Wisconsin Sociological Association, Beloit, Wisconsin, October.
"The Black Male Revisited Before the Year 2000: Developing Viable Educational Options." Invited presentation to Fall Regional Seminar, Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education, Edwardsville, IL, November 15. 
1988
"Visual Urban Sociology: Using Video Technology to Teach About the City." Paper presented at annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, April.
"Projections of the Racial and Ethnic Composition of the School and College Age Populations, 1990-2040: Some Implications." Presentation to SIUE Commencement Symposium and Roundtable: Educating an Emerging Majority.
1987
"The Relationship Between Housing Segregation and Disproportionate Black Unemployment: Is it Different Among Females than Among Males?" Paper presented at annual meeting of the Midwest Sociology Society, Chicago, April 15-18.
1986
"A Decade of Open Housing Law in the United States: An Evaluation," Paper presented at International Research Conference on Housing Policy, Gavle, Sweden, June 10-13.
"The Relationship Between Suburbanization and Central City Crime: Some New Evidence," paper presented at 1986 Annual Meeting, Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, IA. March 16-19.
1985
"The Factorial Ecology and Social Areas of Metropolitan St. Louis: 1980," Paper presented at Annual Meeting, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis, MO., April.
"Disproportionate Black and Hispanic Unemployment Among Metropolitan Males: A Test of Three Explanations," paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August.
1984
"Characteristics of Movers To, From, and Within St. Louis City, 1975-1980," paper presented at Illinois Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, October.
1983
"Housing Segregation in the School Age Population and the Link Between Housing and School Segregation," paper presented at Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, April. 
1982
"Housing Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: The St. Louis Case." Paper presented at Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Des Moines, IA, April 1982.
"The Theory of Aggregate, Multi-Criteria Discrimination." Paper co-authored with John Angle. Presented at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA., September.
"The Factorial Ecology of Metropolitan St. Louis, 1980: A Preliminary Investigation." Paper presented at the Illinois Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Normal, IL, October 1982.
Black Unemployment in Metropolitan America: An Ecological Analysis, unpublished manuscript, 185 pp.
1981
"Black Male Unemployment in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: The Effects of Black Central City Segregation and Job Decentralization." Paper presented at Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, August 1981. 
"Estimates of the Racial Composition of the Population Age 21 and Over, City of St. Louis, 1980." Paper prepared for expert testimony in St. Louis Municipal Court, May 1981.
1980
"Ecological Correlates of Central City Crime." Paper presented at Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, April 1980.
"Has Public Housing Gotten a Bum Rap? The Incidence of Crime in St. Louis Public Housing Developments." Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August.

1979
"The Ecological Context of Urban Crime: A Further Exploration," with Mark Hansel. Presented at Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN, April 19
1972
"Recruitment Channels and Application and Hiring Rates for Blacks in Detroit Area Work Organizations." Working paper, Detroit Area Study.

Honors and Major Professional Activities:
Invited speaker, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Fair Housing Conference, Workshop on Segregation and Concentration in Central Cities, June, 2004.
President, Midwest Sociological Society, 2000-2001. (As President-elect in 1999-2000, I served as Program Chair for 2000 Annual Meeting, held in Chicago, April 19-22. I was responsible for organizing the program, which included a record number of 199 sessions. As President, I was responsible for planning and chairing Board of Directors meetings, for oversight of the Society's activities, for appointment of personnel to committees and appointive offices, and for preparing the annual Presidential Address.)
Member, Focus St. Louis Valuing Our Diversity Task Force, fall, 1999-summer, 2001. Task force studied and made recommendations on race relations and equal opportunity in the greater St. Louis metropolitan area. Report issued in August, 2001.
President, Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing Opportunity Council (EHOC), 1992 - 1998. Vice President, 2000-2005.  Board member, 1992-present. Wrote or co-authored two H.U.D. grant proposals for FY 1994 Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) resulting in grants to EHOC of over $400,000. Also, EHOC provided fair housing testers used by U.S. Department of Justice in investigation of housing discrimination in St. Louis area.
Guest Editor, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, special issue on social response to the 1990 New Madrid earthquake forecast, November, 1993.
President, Illinois Sociological Association, 1997-98 (Board member, 1996-1999). Planned 1998 Annual Meeting held in East St. Louis, IL, October 14 and 15.
1997 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. University Humanitarian Award, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE), awarded for humanitarian activities in the University and community.
SIUE Faculty Senate President, May, 1994 - April, 1995.  President-Elect, and member of Executive Committee, May, 1993 - May, 1994.  Chair, Curriculum Council Ad-Hoc Committee on Inter-group Relations Education, 1990
Member of Faculty Senate, 1982-85, 1992-1996, 2002-2004.  Curriculum Council Member, 1982-83, 2002-2004.  Welfare Council Member, 1983-85, 1992-1993.	
1995 Outstanding Scholar Award, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE). Annual award to faculty member for contributions to knowledge in his/her field, awarded by SIUE Graduate School.
1995 Kimmel Community Service Award for SIUE Faculty and Staff, awarded for activities on behalf of fair housing and civil rights.
Social Problems course syllabus, published by American Sociological Association Projects on Teaching Undergraduate Sociology, 1979.

Other Professional Activities:
Organizer and Presider, Session on “Using the Media to Take Sociology Public,” Annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines, IA, April 3.
Advisory Editor, The Sociological Quarterly, 2006-2008.
Organizer and Presider, Session on “Beyond Times Beach: Dioxin, Corporate Crime, and Public Health in the St. Louis Area,” Joint meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association, Chicago, April 7, 2008.

Discussant, Session on “Ulrich Beck’s Risk Society: Preventing, Mitigating & Channeling Dangers,” Joint meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association, Chicago, April 7, 2008.
Organizer and presider, session on Urban Sociology, 2005 joint Illinois Sociological Association/Wisconsin Sociological Association/Wisconsin Political Science Association annual meetings, Milwaukee, WI, October 13-14.
Co-organizer, session on creating spaces for activism in sociology departments, Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, Minneapolis, March 31-April 3, 2005, Minneapolis.
Organizer and presider, session on disaster research, Illinois Sociological Association annual meetings, Glen Ellyn, IL, October 14-15, 2004.
Discussant, session on political sociology, Midwest Sociological Society annual meetings, Kansas City, MO, April, 2004.
Organizer and presider, session on urban sociology, Illinois Sociological Association annual meetings, Chicago, October 23-24, 2003.
Organizer and presider, session on race and ethnic relations, annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, IL, April 16-19, 2003.
Panelist, “Breaking the Barrier for Minorities in Academia,” annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society, Milwaukee, WI, April 4-7, 2003.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee, fall, 2000 - spring, 2001. This committee recruited and reviewed applicants for the position of Dean, conducted campus interviews with six candidates, and recommended the top four candidates to Provost Sharon Hahs with the Dean to be selected from this short list.
Presenter, Mayor's Regional Conference on Racial Harmony and Justice, St. Louis, October 27, 2000; sessions on Higher Education and on the Focus St. Louis Valuing Our Diversity Task Force.
Member, Coordinating Council, SIUE Institute for Urban Research, 1999-2004.
Panelist: Panel on "Textbook Quality: A Continuing and Important Issue." American Sociological Association annual meetings, Washington, DC, August 12-16, 2000.
Facilitator, SIUE "Pathways to Harmony" diversity education program, 1997-2006. Also was part of a 5-person team that trained facilitators for a similar program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, 1998.
Organizer and Presider, Sessions on Urban Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, Midwest Sociological Society, 1999 Annual Meetings, Minneapolis, April 8-11.
Presenter, SIUE Community Forum on Diversity, Edwardsville, IL, September, 1998.
SIUE Representative, Illinois Board of Higher Education Faculty Advisory Committee, 1996-1999.
Chairperson, Exhibits and Advertising Committee, Midwest Sociological Society, 1993-95. Committee Member, 1990-1996.
Faculty Advisor, SIUE Sociology Club, Fall, 1990 to 1996. Advisor to SIUE College Democrats, Fall, 1993 to 1996.
Panelist, programs on housing segregation, KMOV-TV Eye on St. Louis (October, 1990), KPLR-TV Urban Affairs (December, 1990), and KSDK-TV, St. Louis Sunday (July, 1996).
Member of Editorial Board, Urban Affairs Quarterly (1989-1992) and of Review Board, Michigan Sociological Review (1992-1995).
Organizer and Presider, Session on Response to Hate Group Activity, 1995 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Chicago, April 6-9.
Presenter, Plenary Session on Effects of the Media, National Oak Park Exchange Congress, Ferguson, MO, October 14, 1994.
Resource Faculty Member, National Lewis University: Made guest presentations on diversity to masters-level classes for K-12 teachers, 1992-1994.
Panelist, Fall Regional Seminar, Illinois Committee on Black Concerns in Higher Education, "Effective Strategies for Teaching, Mentoring, and Serving the Black Male." Edwardsville, IL, December 10, 1991.
Panelist, Session on The Aftermath of the New Madrid Earthquake Forecast: The Research Perspective, 16th Annual University of Colorado Natural Hazards Workshop, Boulder, CO, July 14-17, 1991.
Presenter, "The Vision of Racial Unity," Community forum sponsored by B'Hai Community of Edwardsville, IL, October, 1992.
Presenter, "Mutli-Cultural Awareness," SIUE Student Leadership Development Program, March, 1992.
Member, Valuing our Diversity Implementation Committee, Confluence St. Louis. Designed evaluation instruments and process for 1990 Leadership Summit on racial polarization (Fordyce II Conference). Also served as co-chair of Housing Subcommittee; made presentations on housing segregation and discrimination to World of Difference Neighborhood Conference (November, 1990), Coldwell Banker Realty Company (December, 1990), St. Louis Mortgage Bankers Association (April, 1991).
Presenter, Community Forum on Diversity, Sponsored by Alton YWCA, 1991.
Presenter, Missouri Chamber of Commerce 1990 Leadership Missouri program, "Hypersegregation: What Impact in Missouri?"
Co-leader, SIUE 1990 New Student Orientation, Workshop on Celebrating Cultural Diversity.
Organizer, North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Three Sessions on Urban Sociology (also Presider for two of these sessions), March, 1990.
Member, Committee to Scan the Social Environment for University System Plan, Southern Illinois University System, January-April, 1990.
Conducted Urban Sociology Neighborhood Tour, Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April, 1989.
Resource, Confluence St. Louis "Racial Polarization" Task Force, 1988-89.
Panelist, SIUE Commencement Symposium, "Educating an Emerging Majority," June, 1988. Made presentation titled, "Projections of the Racial and Ethnic Composition of the School and College Age Population, 1990-2040: Some Implications."
Organizer and Presider, North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Session on Urban Sociology, April, 1988.
Panelist, SIUE Department of Economics Election Forum, "Economic Issues of the 1988 Presidential Campaign," November 2, 1988.
Co-director of exploratory committee to develop Community-Based Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Project, St. Louis, MO, 1987-88.
Panelist, "Meet the Authors" Session sponsored by Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August, Chicago, Illinois.
Organizer and Presider, Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Session on Race and Housing, April 1987.
Signatory, Interdisciplinary Social Science Statement on the Costs of Housing Discrimination, May 1987.
Conducted National Issues Forums Concerning Immigration, October 1986 and January 1987.
Resource for Confluence St. Louis' "Structural Unemployment" Task Force, 1987.
Presenter, Confluence St. Louis' "Too Many Governments?" Task Force concerning effects of governmental consolidation on housing segregation, July 1986.
Researcher, RRDS contract research project for St. Louis University Medical Center: marketing research concerning sites for physician practices, 1986-87.
Paper discussant, International Research Conference on Housing Policy, Gavle, Sweden, June 1986.
Conducted National Issues Forum Concerning Welfare, Fall 1985.
Conducted Urban Sociology Neighborhood Tour of St. Louis at Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, April 1985.
Undergraduate Programs Review Committee, SIUE, member, 1983. Included review, prioritization and resource allocation recommendation for all SIUE undergraduate programs.
Co-organizer, Illinois Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Session on Urban Migration, October, 1984.
Expert testimony:
State of Missouri Circuit Court, 1995
U.S. Federal District Court 1983, 1984, 1985. 
St. Louis City Civil Courts, 1983.
Prepared numerous segregation indices for Kansas City metropolitan area which were entered into evidence for use in Kansas City school desegregation case, 1983-84.
Member, All-University Committee for American Association of State Colleges and Universities Academic Program Evaluation project, SIUE, 1979-82.
Manuscript Reviewer/Referee for: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Geography, Urban Affairs Quarterly and Urban Affairs Review, Sociological Forum, Journal of Urban Affairs, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Sociological Quarterly, Social Problems, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Prentice Hall, St. Martins Press, Alfred Publishers, Westview Press, Sage Publications, and MacMillan. 
Proposal Reviewer for National Science Foundation research grant proposals, Sociology Program and Earthquake Mitigation Program.
Book reviews published: Contemporary Sociology and Social Science Quarterly, 1983; Choice, 1985 (3 reviews), 1986, 1987, and 1988.
Session Chair, 1978 Annual Meeting, Environmental Design Research Association.
Consultant, Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation of Canada, 1975-1977.
Member, Committee on Pre-Planning Individualized Major, Moorhead State University, 1977.
Co-director, Sociology Teaching Effectiveness Workshop, University of Michigan, Summer 1975.
Graduate Student Representative, Department of Sociology Committee on Educational Policy, University of Michigan, 1971-72. 
 
Professional Memberships: 
American Sociological Association, Midwest Sociological Society, North Central Sociological Association, Illinois Sociological Association, Focus St. Louis, Population Reference Bureau.
 
Grants, Contracts, and Fellowships:
(with Marvin Finkelstein and Jennifer Hamer) SIUE Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grant, FY 2002, "ABle Student Retention Program for Sociology Majors."
Assigned Time for Research Grant, SIUE Graduate School, Spring, 2001, "Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 2000, and the Impact of the New Census Bureau Racial Classification System on the Measurement of Housing Segregation."
SIUE Institute for Urban Research Faculty Research Fellowship, Fall, 2001, "Geographic Distribution of Metro East Region's African American Population and Racial Housing Segregation in Relation to the Geographic Distribution of Health Care Providers in the Metro East Region."
Funded University Research Grant, "Earthquake Awareness and Preparedness in Metropolitan St. Louis - 1997 Follow-up Survey," 1997-98 academic year. 
(with Marvin Finkelstein) 1996-97 and 1995-96 SIUE Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grant, "The ABle Program: A Retention Program for Sociology Majors." Continuing funding for the 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000, and 2000-01 school years has been provided by the SIUE Office of Cultural and Social Diversity.
National Science Foundation Grant No. BCS-9203475, "Earthquake Preparedness in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Sikeston, Missouri," 1992-93.
Funded University Research Grant, "Racial Housing Segregation in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, 1990," 1992-93 academic year.
Funded University Research Grant, "White Support for Jesse Jackson and Other Black Political Candidates," 1990-91 academic year.
(with Hugh D. Barlow, Lewis Bender, Marvin Finkelstein, and Larry Riley), Research Contract, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, "Public Response to Iben Browning Earthquake Forecast," 1990-91.
(with Robert Blain, Marvin Finkelstein, and Larry Riley), Excellence in Undergraduate Education Grant, "Retention Program for Undergraduate Sociology Majors" (ABle Program), 1990-91; 1991-92. Program re-funded through Provost's Minority Initiatives Fund, 1994-95.
SIUE New Investigator Seed Money Grant, "Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program Development," Spring, 1988.
Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award, "Computer Projection Equipment," SIUE, 1986-87.
Summer Research Grant, "Disproportionate Black and Hispanic Unemployment Among Metropolitan Females," SIUE, 1986.
Summer New Course Grant, "Learning and Doing Sociology Using the Computer," SIUE, 1985.
Research Grant Number MH32646, National Institute of Mental Health, "Housing Segregation, Job Access and Black Unemployment," FY1980-81.
National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, August 1975 (Fellowship declined.)
Rackham Prize Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1973-74.
National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship, University of Michigan, 1971-72.