Social and Spatial Patterning in Minority Communities in Nineteenth Century America

My work intersects with the theme of “racial and social segregation” in my efforts to identify and utilize data types that allow us to explore dimensions of segregation (social, ethnic and racial) in the American past. I am also interested in the scale at which such separation and segmentation occurred, a theme that will be pursued in the work ahead. Above all I am interested in using new data and the combination of that data with new technologies and new ideas to understand in new ways the political effects of such spatial patterning on American political development.