Marcus Britton

Associate Professor, Sociology
Affiliated Professor, Urban Studies

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern University

Office Hours

Bolton Hall, Office #728
N/A for 2024-25 (On Sabaticcal)

Courses Taught

SOCIOL 324: Race and Ethnicity in Global Contexts
SOCIOL 330: Economy and Society
SOCIOL 361: Research Methods in Sociology
SOCIOL 901: Urban Social Structure
SOCIOL 982: Advanced Quantitative Analysis

Research Interests

Urban Sociology
Racial Segregation & Integration
Racial & Place-based Inequality

Selected Publications

Shin, H. , Aliaga-Linares, L. , & Britton, M. L. (2017) Misconceived equity? Health care resources, contextual poverty, and child health disparities in Peru. Social Science Research , 66, 234-247.

Goldsmith, P. R., Britton, M. L., Reese, B. , & Velez, W. (2017) Will Moving to a Better Neighborhood Help? Teenage Residential Mobility, Change of Context and Young-Adult Educational Attainment. Urban Affairs Review , 53(2), 305–337.

Britton, M. L. (2016) Review of Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas. 15(3), 338–340. City & Community.

Britton, M. L., & Velez, W. (2015) Boricuas, Barrios and Birth Outcomes: Residential Segregation and Preterm Birth among Puerto Ricans in the United States. CENTRO Journal , 26(1).

Britton, M. L. (2014) Latino Spatial and Structural Assimilation: Close Intergroup Friendships among Houston-Area Latinos. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 40(8), 1192-1216.

Britton, M. L., & Shin, H. (2013) Metropolitan Residential Segregation and Very Preterm Birth Among African American and Mexican-Origin Women. Social Science & Medicine , 98, 37-45.

Britton, M. L. (2013) Race/Ethnicity, Attitudes and Living with Parents during Young Adulthood. Journal of Marriage and Family , 75, 995-1013.

Britton, M. L., & Goldsmith, P. R. (2013) Keeping People in Their Place? Young-Adult Mobility and the Persistence of Residential Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Urban Studies , 50(14), 2886-2903.

Britton, M. L. (2012) Review of Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy by David Imbroscio. City & Community , 11(2), 224, 225. Wiley Blackwell.

Britton, M. L. (2011) Close Together but Worlds Apart? Residential Integration and Interethnic Friendship in Houston. Silver, H. (Ed). City & Community, Wiley , 10(2), 182-204.

Britton, M. L. (2008) "My Regular Spot": Race and Territory in Urban Public Space. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography , 37(4), 442-468.

Britton, M. L. (2007) Urbanization and Spatial Organization: Hospital and Orphanage Location in Chicago, 1848-1916. Social Forces , 85, 1303-1317.