Professor Kye's research uses demographic methods to better understand how U.S. neighborhoods and metropolitan areas have endured as sites of power, struggle, and stratification.
His main area of study focuses on residential segregation and the mechanisms that facilitate or prevent the formation of racially diverse and integrated neighborhoods. He also researches trends in Asian American assimilation, with a particular interest in the rise of Asian "ethnoburb" communities. Uniting all of his work is a critical awareness of the powerful ways data can shape public and policy perceptions of racial progress.
Sam completed his Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University in 2020. He joins the department after spending several years as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University and, before that, as a postdoctoral research associate with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. His work can be found in outlets such as Demography, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Sociological Methods & Research, and Annual Review of Sociology.
