Professor, Department of Sociology

Email: ndenton@albany.edu
Phone: (518)442-4460
Office: Arts & Sciences 337

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Denton is best known for her work on residential segregation with Douglas Massey that culminated in the book American Apartheid (Harvard, 1993).  Since that time she has continued to study segregation but also done research on immigration, particularly the neighborhood environments of children as well as the new immigrants to the Hudson Valley;  issues facing children in immigrant families, including language and pre-school; and methodological issues surrounding race and ethnicity as well as racial identity among Puerto Ricans.  Her latest research is focusing on upstate New York, home to one third of the population of New York State who live in a wide variety of circumstances from very rural to very urban. 

Denton is currently the Director of the Lewis Mumford Center for Urban and Regional Research as well as Associate Director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis.  In the former role she has been actively developing the upstate New York research, while in the latter she has directed the development core, helping new scholars become active population researchers and helping organize the CSDA and Mumford colloquia series.  She is an active member of PAA, having served on its Executive Board and she often organizes and chairs sessions at the annual meeting.  She frequently serves on ad hoc panels for NICHD.  She is also very active in the Eastern Sociological Society, currently serving as Publications Committee Chair which oversees the society’s journal Sociological Forum.  In addition, she is a deputy editor of City and Community, which was the first ASA approved section journal.