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Dr. Logan's latest project is a study of the social impacts of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast. He has also undertaken studies of neighborhood change and individual mobility in U.S. cities in the period 1880-1920, as well as residential and labor market segregation in the current period. Since the early 1990s, Dr. Logan has studied social change in China, especially impacts of market transition. Another interest is support relationships between parents and adult children in both nations.
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Dr. Logan completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. Before coming to Brown he was Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University at Albany, SUNY; Director of the Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research; and Director of the Urban China Research Network. Since 2005 he has served at Brown as Director of the research initiative on Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences. Dr. Logan is co-author, along with Harvey Molotch, of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. His most recent edited book, Urban China in Transition, was published by Blackwell in 2007.
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