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John Iceland
Professor of Sociology and Demography
614 Oswald Tower
Department of Sociology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-6207 Office Phone: (814) 867-2821 Fax: (814) 863-7216 Email: jiceland@pop.psu.edu http://www.pop.psu.edu/~jiceland/index.html CV |
Ph.D., Brown University, 1997
Professor Iceland's research is in social demography, poverty, residential segregation, and immigration. His latest book is Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States (2009, University of California Press). His previous book, Poverty in America (2003, 2006, University of California Press), is now in its second edition.
Advisory Board, Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality project on “Measuring the Effect of Poverty-Reducing Policies” (2008-)
The Public Understanding of Sociology Award Selection Committee, American Sociological Association (2007-2009)
Secretary-Treaurer, Population Association of America (2005-2008)
Editorial Boards: Demography (2004-2007), Social Problems (2008-), Social Science Quarterly (2006-)
Grant Review Panels: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2007-2011), NSF (2008)
Grants: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2006-09, PI; 2008-2011, Co-PI), U.S. Census Bureau (2003-08, PI), Russell Sage Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation (1997-2000, Co-PI)
Consultant, New York City Office of the Mayor, “Measuring Poverty in New York City” (2007-08)
Member, National Academies Committee to review the Census Bureau Dynamics of Economic Well-Being Data Collection Program (2007-08)
Testimony, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcomittee on Income Security and Family Support, Hearing on Measuring Poverty in America (2007)
Consultant and Rapporteur, National Academies Workshop on Experimental Measures of Poverty (2004)
Iceland, John. 2009. Where We Live Now: Immigration and Race in the United States. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Iceland, John and Kyle Anne Nelson. 2008. “Hispanic Segregation in Metropolitan America: Exploring the Multiple Forms of Spatial Assimilation.” American Sociological Review 73, 5: 741-765.
Iceland, John and Melissa Scopilliti. 2008. "Immigrant Residential Segregation inU.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1990-2000.” Demography 45, 1: 79-94.
Scopilliti, Melissa and John Iceland. 2008. “Residential Patterns of Black Immigrants and Native-Born Blacks in the United States.” Social Science Quarterly 89, 3: 547-572.
Timberlake, Jeffrey and John Iceland. 2007. “Change in Racial and Ethnic Residential Inequality in American Cities, 1970-2000.” City and Community 6, 4: 335-365.
Iceland, John and Kurt J. Bauman. 2007. “Income Poverty and Material Hardship.” The Journal of Socio-Economics 36, 3: 376-96.
Iceland, John. 2006. Poverty in America (2nd Edition). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press --1st Edition published in 2003.
Iceland, John and Rima Wilkes. 2006. “Does Socioeconomic Status Matter? Race, Class, and Residential Segregation.” Social Problems 52, 2: 248-273.
Iceland, John (Rapporteur). 2005. Workshop on Experimental Poverty Measures. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Iceland, John. 2005. “Measuring Poverty: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations.” Measurement 3, 4: 199-235.
Iceland, John. 2005. “Measuring Poverty: A Rejoinder.” Measurement 3, 4: 261-66.
Iceland, John, Cicely Sharpe, and Erika Steinmetz. 2005. “Class Differences in African American Residential Patterns in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: 1990-2000.” Social Science Research 34, 1: 252-266.
Iceland, John. 2004. “Beyond Black and White: Residential Segregation in Multiethnic America.” Social Science Research 33, 2: 248-271.
Wilkes, Rima and John Iceland. 2004. “Hypersegregation in the Twenty-First Century: An Update and Analysis.” Demography 41, 1: 23-36.
Iceland, John. 2003. “Why Poverty Remains High: The Role of Income Growth, Economic Inequality, and Changes in Family Structure, 1949-1999.” Demography 40, 3: 499-519.
Iceland, John, Daniel H. Weinberg, and Erika Steinmetz. 2002. Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the United States, 1980-2000. U.S. Census Bureau, Special Report Series, CENSR # 3.