The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Lincoln Quillian

On Wednesday, November 29, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Lincoln Quillian. Lincoln Quillian is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1997. He is interested in social stratification, race and ethnicity, urban sociology, and quantitative research methods. Most of his research has focused on how social structure and group demography influence inequality, intergroup attitudes, discrimination, and neighborhood segregation. In recent years, he has published on how multiple forms of segregation combine to produce neighborhood poverty concentration and on understanding racial discrimination in hiring through meta-analysis of field experiments. His work has appeared as publications in journals including the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Demography, and Social Forces. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. He is the chair-elect of the American Sociological Association Section on Methodology.