The Department of Sociology Colloquium Series presents Chenoa A. Flippen, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Flippen received her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. She is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

 Her research addresses the connection between racial and ethnic inequality and contextual forces at the neighborhood, metropolitan, and national level. Her work falls into three broad categories: 

 1) racial and ethnic inequality in the United States 

2) life-course and aging, particularly as it relates to minority well-being

3) Hispanic immigrant adaptation, especially in new areas of destination across the American South.  

Her research combines quantitative and qualitative methods, drawing upon diverse sources of existing data as well as collecting original survey and ethnographic data. She has applied these methods to diverse topics such as the relationship between housing appreciation and neighborhood composition, the relationship between residential segregation and minority homeownership, pathways to retirement for black and Hispanic elders, and the impact of migration on men’s HIV risk behaviors and women’s interpersonal power. 

informal savings groups such as “la tanda.” Her work has been published in American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Social Forces, and Population Research and Policy Review, among other outlets.