Elizabeth Roberto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the founding Co-Director of the Center for Computational Insights on Inequality and Society at Rice University (CIISR). She has broad research interests in social and spatial inequality, a substantive focus on residential segregation, and methodological expertise in computational social science and quantitative methods. Her research uses innovative methods to examine the complex relationship between the social and built environment of cities. Dr. Roberto received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. She was awarded a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems, which supported her postdoctoral research at Princeton University. Her research has also been supported by the American Sociological Association and the National Academies, and she is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
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Research Areas
Social and Spatial Inequality, Urban Sociology, Residential Segregation, Sociological Research Methods, Computational Social Science, Quantitative Methods, Spatial Analysis
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology, Yale University, 2015
M.Phil in Sociology, Yale University, 2011
M.A in Sociology, Yale University, 2011
M.P.A. in Education and Social Policy, The George Washington University, 2002
B.A. in Human Services, The George Washington University, 2000
Societies & Organizations
American Sociological Association
Population Association of America
International Network of Analytic Sociologists
Social Science History Association