Faculty Biography - Kyle Crowder

Professor
Sociology Department
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9081
Arntzen Hall 528
Phone: (360) 650-7213
Fax: 360-650-7295
Kyle.Crowder@wwu.edu

Kyle Crowder is a Professor in the Department of Sociology. After graduating from the University of Washington in 1990 he spent two years working as probation officer and youth counselor in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany in 1997 and, after completing an appointment as Research Fellow at the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis in Albany, he joined the faculty at WWU in Fall, 1998.

Professor Crowder remains intensely interested in the impact of neighborhood conditions on youth and their families, and in the processes of residential segregation and attainment. He has published articles on a variety of related topics including residential mobility, segregation, premarital childbearing, and racial intermarriage. He is currently engaged in projects examining the effects of residential mobility patterns and industrial siting decisions on racial and ethnic differences in exposure to environmental hazards, and the effects of local and extralocal neighborhood conditions on residential mobility and adolescent development.

Recent Publications

South, Scott J., Kyle Crowder, and Jeremy Pais. 2007. “Inter-Neighborhood Migration and Spatial Assimilation in a Multi-Ethnic World: Comparing Latinos, Blacks, and Anglos.” Social Forces (forthcoming).

Crowder, Kyle, Scott J. South, and Erick Chavez. 2006. “Wealth, Race, and Inter-Neighborhood Migration.” American Sociological Review 71(1): 72-94.

South, Scott J., Kyle Crowder, and Erick Chavez. 2005. “Exiting and Entering Poor Neighborhoods: Latinos, Blacks, and Anglos Compared.” Social Forces 84(2): 873-900.

Crowder, Kyle and Scott J. South. 2005. "Race, Class, and Changing Migration Patterns between Poor and Nonpoor Neighborhoods." American Journal of Sociology 110(6): 1715-1763

Tolnay, Stewart E., Katherine Curtis White, Kyle Crowder, and Robert M. Adelman. 2005. “Distances Traveled During the ‘Great Migration’: An Analysis of Racial Differences Among Male Migrants.” Social Science History 29(4): 523-548.

South, Scott J., Kyle Crowder, and Erick Chavez. 2005. “Migration and Spatial Assimilation Among U.S. Latinos: Classical Versus Segmented Trajectories.” Demography 42(3): 497-521.

Crowder, Kyle and Jay Teachman. 2004. "Do Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Context Explain the Impact of Childhood Living Arrangements on Adolescent Risk Behavior?" Journal of Marriage and the Family 66: 721-738.

Crowder, Kyle and Scott J. South. 2003. "Neighborhood Distress and School Dropout: The Variable Significance of Community Context." Social Science Research 32: 659-698.

Crowder, Kyle D., Stewart E. Tolnay, and Robert M. Adelman. 2001. "Inter-Metropolitan Migration and Locational Improvement for African American Males, 1970-1990." Social Science Research 30: 449-472.

Crowder, Kyle D. 2001. “Racial Stratification in the Actuation of Mobility Expectations: Micro-level Impacts of Racially Restrictive Housing Markets.” Social Forces 79(4): 1377-1396.