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.
Other Campus Affiliations
- Professor, African American Studies
- Associate Dean, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
- Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
- Professor, Urban and Regional Planning
- Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute