Maria Krysan

Maria Krysan is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, whose research focuses on racial residential segregation and racial attitudes. She is on sabbatical during the 2010-2011 academic year.

She is co-author (with H. Schuman, L. Bobo and C. Steeh) of the book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Harvard University Press, Revised Edition, 1997), and is responsible for a website that updates the data from that book.

In addition to a recent edited volume with Amanda Lewis, called The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity, her most recent work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, Social Problems, Social Forces. She is a principal investigator on an NSF-funded grant, "Collaborative Research on Race and Rust Belt Revitalization: What Determines Who Lives Where?" a project that continues her interest in racial attitudes and racial residential segregation.

Krysan received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1995.

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