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John Iceland
Associate Professor

 

Ph.D. Brown University, 1997

 

Office: 3129 Art-Sociology Building
Phone:301-405-6430
Email: jiceland@umd.edu

Departmental Specialty Areas:
Demography, Stratification

 

Additional Research Interests:
Poverty and Inequality, Residential Segregation and Social Policy

 

Personal Homepage:

http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/jiceland/

 

John Iceland is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland-College Park and a Faculty Associate of the Maryland Population Research Center. He was Chief of the Poverty and Health Statistics Branch at the U.S. Census Bureau before joining the Maryland faculty in 2003.

 

Professor Iceland's research focuses on poverty and residential segregation issues. His book, Poverty in America (University of California Press) is now in its second edition. He has authored numerous papers and reports on poverty patterns, causes, and measurement. His work on residential segregation examines general trends among various groups using a variety of measures, and he is currently examining the residential patterns of immigrants.

 

John Iceland's Research Page contains links to his latest research, including a wide array of poverty and residential segregation reports, papers, and data.

 

Course Syllabi:

 

Sociology 498B:  Poverty in America

 

Sociology 627: Migration

 

Sociology 666: Poverty and Welfare

Other Links:

 

Maryland Population Research Center

 

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