Maria Krysan
Maria Krysan
Senior Scholar, IGPA
Professor, Department of Sociology
Department of Sociology
University of Illinois Chicago
Maria Krysan focuses her research on racial residential segregation and racial attitudes. She is the primary author of Tracking Trends in Racial Attitudes, a website that compiles results of several national surveys that have been tracking Americans’ racial attitudes from as early as the 1940s. Professor Krysan's investigations of these substantive issues often connect to methodological questions about how to study this sensitive area of social life. She combines standard closed-ended survey analysis with mode of administration experiments, analyses of open-ended survey questions, focus groups, and in-depth interviews. In addition to an edited volume with Amanda Lewis, The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity, her most recent work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Science Research, Social Problems, and The DuBois Review. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Russell Sage Foundation, and Ford Foundation. Her most recent work focuses on understanding the causes of residential segregation, particularly as viewed through the question of how people end up living where they do.
Associated IGPA Projects
Racial Attitudes and Inequality
Professional Appointments
Editorial Board Member, Public Opinion Quarterly
Editorial Board Member, Rose Series
Social Science Advisory Board Member, Poverty and Race Research Action Council
Education
PhD, MA: The University of Michigan, 1995, 1992
Undergraduate: Stanford University, 1988
IGPA Research By Maria Krysan
April 21, 2021Tracking Trends in Racial Attitudes
September 9, 2016A portrait of African American and White Racial Attitudes
December 3, 2015Racial residential segregation and the housing search process
March 18, 2014How do childcare centers and preschools weather funding disruptions?
February 20, 2014Foreclosing on community
February 20, 2014The Illinois Report 2014
May 28, 2013Chicago Area Study 2012 Research Brief #5
May 28, 2013Chicago Area Study 2012 Research Brief #4
April 5, 2013Immigration ambivalence in suburbia
February 21, 2013Chicago Area Study 2012 Research Brief #3
February 21, 2013Chicago Area Study 2012 Research Brief #2
February 8, 2013Chicago Area Study 2012 Brief #1
January 21, 2009Racial segregation and exclusion in Illinois
February 1, 2008Racial segregation in metropolitan Chicago housing