The Department of Urban Studies welcomes Dr. Danielle Xiaodan Morales to our faculty. A demographer, she was born in China and later earned her Baccalaureate degree at the Renmin University of China. Completing her graduate training at Texas A & M under Dr. Dudley Poston, her dissertation looked at residential segregation between same-sex couples and heterosexual couples in 100 metropolitan areas in the United States. Dr. Morales comes to us from the University of Texas-El Paso where she was part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. We know she will be a good fit for our interdisciplinary department, and she is happy to have landed where she can continue to look at population issues and social issues in an urban context. (She is pictured here in the desert near her previous job. We look forward to posting a picture of her knee-deep in snow within 6 months.) Joining us officially on September 1, 2022, Dr. Morales takes up her position exactly 50 years after Worceste
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