Michael White

Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies, Professor of Sociology
Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences Sociology

Areas of Interest: Migration and population distribution: from urban residential segregation, to rural-urban migration in developing societies, to contemporary international migration and immigrant assimilation.

Biography

Michael White is the Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies at Brown University, where he is also Professor of Sociology and Director of the initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences.   

White's research covers a wide array of topics within the broad area of migration and population distribution: from urban residential segregation, to rural-urban migration in developing societies, to contemporary international migration and immigrant assimilation. He has previously carried out collaborative field research projects in Ghana and Ethiopia. White currently leads an international team of researchers on a NIH-sponsored longitudinal survey examining the relationships among migration, urbanization, and health outcomes in South Africa.