Maria Krysan

Maria Krysan

Primary Affiliation: Education, Learning, and Child and Family Well-Being Working Group; Equity, Justice, and Human Flourishing Working Group

Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago

Milestones

Anti-discrimination legislation
Spent a month in residence with the Utah legislature, helping Utah state lawmakers to pass anti-discrimination legislation that balances
religious liberty and LGBT rights. In 2019, Professor Wilson assisted the governor of Utah to craft regulations banning gay conversion therapy.
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EXPERIENCE &
BACKGROUND

ABOUT

Maria Krysan, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Senior Scholar at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. She focuses her research on racial residential segregation and racial attitudes. Her 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. Her most recent book, with co-author Kyle Crowder, is Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017). In this award-winning book, the authors draw on in-depth interviews, large-scale survey data, and previously published research to propose an innovative framework for understanding the causes of racial residential segregation. Krysan is co-editor (with Amanda Lewis) of an edited volume with Amanda Lewis (The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), and a 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).

She is also responsible for a website that updates the data from that book. Her research has also appeared in a range of journals, including the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The DuBois Review, Demography, Social Problems, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Science Research, Population Research and Policy Review, and others. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Russell Sage Foundation, and Ford Foundation.  Krysan serves on the editorial board of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Science Research and Social Problems and has been a member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey.

Public Opinion Quarterly.

Editorial Board Member, 2000 – 2015. 

American Sociological Association’s Rose Series. 

Editorial Board Member, 2013 – 2015. 

Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Washington D.C.

Social Science Advisory Board Member, 2013 to Present. 

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Ph.D. in Sociology, 1995. 

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; M.A. in Sociology, 1992. 

Stanford University, Stanford, California; A.B. with Distinction in Social Sciences: Sociology, 1988. 

$234K

Maria Krysan, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Senior Scholar at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs. research racial residential segregation and racial attitudes.  often connect to methodological questions about this sensitive area. She combines standard closed-ended survey analysis with mode of administration experiments, analyses of open-ended survey questions, focus groups, and in-depth interviews. most recent book, with co-author Kyle Crowder, is Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017). In this award-winning book, the authors draw on in-depth interviews, large-scale survey data, and previously published research to propose an innovative framework for understanding the causes of racial residential segregation. Krysan is co-editor (with Amanda Lewis) of an edited volume (The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), and a 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).
 is also responsible for a website that updates the data from that book. research has appeared in a range of journals, including the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The DuBois Review, Demography, Social Problems, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Science Research, Population Research and Policy Review, and others. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Russell Sage Foundation, and Ford Foundation. Krysan serves on the editorial board of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Science Research and Social Problems and has been a member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey.

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HONORS & AWARDS

2021: Selected as a University Scholar. The University Scholars Program was created to honor and reward outstanding faculty members at the University of Illinois.
2019: Recipient (with co-author Kyle Crowder) of the 2019 Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award from the Section on Sociology of Population of the American Sociological Association for "Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification" (Russell Sage Foundation 2017).
2018: Recipient (with co-author Kyle Crowder) of the 2018 Robert E. Park Award for the Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association for "Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017).
2018: Recipient (with co-author Kyle Crowder) of the 2018 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the Section on Racial And Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association for “Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017).
2018: Recipient (with co-author Kyle Crowder) of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association for “Cycle of Segregation: Social Processes and Residential Stratification” (Russell Sage Foundation, 2017).