Ruby Mendenhall

Ruby Mendenhall

Associate Director

Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor, Sociology

Areas of Research

Sociology

Research Program and Theme

  • Program: Cancer Engineering and Biological Systems
  • Theme: Mechanistic and Quantitative Biology

Research Focus

Ruby Mendenhall is an Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For her dissertation, Black Women in Gautreaux’s Housing Desegregation Program: The Role of Neighborhoods and Networks in Economic Independence, she used administrative welfare and employment data, census information, and in-depth interviews to examine the long-run effects of placement neighborhood conditions/resources on economic independence. 

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