June 18, 2015 | Categories: About FHC | Tags: Alexandra Murphy, fair housing center of southeastern michigan, FHC Board of Directors, University of Michigan
Please join us in welcoming Alexandra Murphy to Fair Housing Center’s Board of Directors. Alexandra Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Associate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She received her B.A. in Urban Studies from Barnard College and her PhD in Sociology & Social Policy from Princeton University. Before joining the Sociology Department, Alex was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Poverty Center at UM. One line of Alex’s research draws on ethnographic methods to understand the new suburban poverty. Another line examines transportation insecurity among low income Americans. She teaches courses on urban inequality, poverty, social policy, and qualitative methods. Welcome, Alex!