Samantha Friedman
Associate Professor
Sociology
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
Samantha Friedman's research focuses on racial/ethnic disparities in housing and neighborhood quality and on minority success in overcoming such inequality. She is researching minority homeowners' access to racially integrated and predominantly white neighborhoods, as well as the neighborhood quality of middle-class whites, blacks, and Hispanics. Friedman is co-author of The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market (New York University Press, 2007) and has published articles in Social Problems, Urban Affairs Review and Social Science Quarterly, among others.
Research Interest
Residential segregation; racial and ethnic disparities in housing and neighborhood quality; immigration
Publications
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Friedman, Samantha. "Bringing proximate neighbours into the study of US residential segregation." Urban Studies 48.4 (2011): 611-639.
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Friedman, Samantha, Joseph Gibbons, and Chris Galvan. "Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality: Does middle-class and affluent status bring equality?." Social science research 46 (2014): 155-168.
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Friedman, Samantha, Hui-shien Tsao, and Cheng Chen. "Housing tenure and residential segregation in metropolitan America." Demography 50.4 (2013): 1477-1498.
