Robert Wagmiller
Assistant Professor
Education: Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago (2004)
Research Interests: Urban Poverty, Male Joblessness, Racial and Economic Residential Segregation, Child Development, Quantitative Methods
Recent Courses:
Sociology 294 Basic Statistics for the Social Sciences
Sociology 348 Sociology of Poverty
Sociology 607 General Linear Model
Sociology 608 Causal Models
Bio:
Robert L. Wagmiller, Jr. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. His publications examine the causes and consequences of child poverty and the changing social ecology of urban disadvantage in the post-Civil Rights era. His research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Housing Policy Debate, and Urban Affairs Review. He has received research funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institute of Child Health and Development.
Recent Publications:
Wagmiller, Robert. 2008. “Male Nonemployment in White, Black, Hispanic, and Multiethnic Neighborhoods, 1970-2000.” Urban Affairs Review 44(1): 85-125.
Wagmiller, Robert. 2008. “The Changing Geography of Male Joblessness in Urban America: 1970 to 2000.” Housing Policy Debate 19(1): 93-135.
Wagmiller, Robert, Mary Clare Lennon, and Li Kuang. 2008. “Changes in Parental Health and Children’s Economic Well-Being.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49(1): 37-55.
Wagmiller, Robert. 2007. “Race and the Spatial Segregation of Jobless Men in Urban America.” Demography 44(3): 539-562.
Wagmiller, Robert, Mary Clare Lennon, Li Kuang, Philip Alberti, and J. Lawrence Aber. 2006. “Dynamics of Family Economic Disadvantage and Children’s Life Chances.” American Sociological Review 71(5): 847-866.
Carter, Alice S., Jennifer Bender Berz, Robert Wagmiller, Sarah M. Horwitz, Karla Klein Murdock, and Margaret Briggs-Gowan. 2006. “Prevalence and Correlates of Early Onset Asthma and Wheezing in a Healthy Birth Cohort of 2- to 3-Year Olds.” Journal of Pediatric Psychology 5: 1-13.
Wagmiller, Robert. 2007. “Children and the Changing Social Ecology of Economic Disadvantage in Urban America.” Pp. 163-181 in David Maume and Barbara Arrighi (eds.), Children and Poverty Today: Volume 1, Westport, Ct.: Praeger.
E-mail: rw26 [at] buffalo [dot] edu