The Department of Sociology Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Presents: Dr. Samuel Kye

On Thursday, October 26, 2023, the Sociology Colloquium Series will feature Dr. Samuel Kye. Dr. Kye is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Baylor University, where he is also an External Faculty Affiliate of the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the department in the Fall of 2021 after completing a year of postdoctoral research with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2020 from Indiana University. Sam’s research examines racial inequality in the metropolitan United States. He is particularly interested in the mechanisms that facilitate or prevent the formation of racially diverse and integrated neighborhoods. His primary work involves analysis of both U.S. Census and individual-level data to understand how and why residential segregation persists. His other projects have examined—and sought to improve—the methods researchers use to assess neighborhood racial/ethnic change and stability. He also researches trends in Asian American (racialized) assimilation, with a keen interest in the rise of “ethnoburb” communities. You can find some of his published work in Demography, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Methods & Research, Social Science Research, and Annual Review of Sociology. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation GRFP and the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University.