Dylan Connor
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Mail code: 5302Campus: Tempe
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[Photo courtesy of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences]
Dr. Connor is currently on sabbatical as a CASBS fellow at Stanford University.
Dylan Connor is an associate professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU and core faculty at the Spatial Analysis Research Center (SPARC).
As a computational social scientist and geographer, Dr. Connor studies how places shape human development, social inequality, and the transmission of advantages and disadvantages over extended historical periods. He specializes in causal inference and historical and spatial data infrastructure. In addition to his methodological contributions, he has published extensively on topics including the changing geography of the American Dream and spatial wealth inequality, the rural social mobility advantage, and on the economic history of Irish and Jewish immigration.
His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health, and discussed in popular outlets including Brookings, Business Insider, RTE, Marginal Revolution, and on prime-time radio.
Selected academic publications
Connor, D. S., & Storper, M. (2020). The changing geography of social mobility in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(48), 30309-30317.
Suss, J., Kemeny, T., & Connor, D. S. (2024). GEOWEALTH-US: Spatial wealth inequality data for the United States, 1960–2020. Scientific Data, 11(1), 253.
Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., & Connor, D. S. (2024). Leaving the enclave: Historical evidence on immigrant mobility from the industrial removal office. The Journal of Economic History, 84(2), 352-394.
Connor, D. S. (2019). The cream of the crop? Geography, networks, and Irish migrant selection in the age of mass migration. The Journal of Economic History, 79(1), 139-175.
Connor, D. S., Hunter, L., Jang, J., & Uhl, J. H. (2023). Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 87, 100844.
Connor, D. S., Xie, S., et al. (2024). Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America. Population, Space and Place. e2802.
Selected popular articles, blogs, op-eds
What Irish Children's names reveal about us. RTE Brainstorm, 01/11/2022.
Growing up in a “left behind” place can have a major impact on long-term income prospects. American Politics and Policy Blog, London School of Economics and Political Science, 01/25/2024.
New data reveals 60 years of rising local wealth inequality across the United States. Inequalities Blog, London School of Economics and Political Science, 03/07/2024.
Cultural diversity in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire a century ago. Ireland After NAMA Blog, 09/02/2019.
Links
- PhD Geography, University of California Los Angeles
- MSc Statistics, University of Leuven
- MA Geography, University College Dublin
- BA Economics & Geography, University College Dublin
Published
Hu, Y., Connor, D.S., Stuhlmacher, M., Peng, J., Turner, B. L. More urbanization, more polarization: evidence from two decades of urban expansion in China. npj Urban Sustainability, 4, 33 (2024).
Goodchild, M. F., Connor, D., Fotheringham, A. S., Frazier, A., Kedron, P., Li, W., & Tong, D. (2024). Digital twins in urban informatics. Urban Informatics, 3(1), 1-9.
Berg, A. K., Connor, D. S., Kedron, P., & Frazier, A. E. (2024). Remapping California's wildland urban interface: A property-level time-space framework, 2000–2020. Applied Geography, 167, 103271.
Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., & Connor, D. S. (2024). Leaving the enclave: Historical evidence on immigrant mobility from the industrial removal office. The Journal of Economic History, 84(2), 352-394.
Connor, D. S., Kemeny, T., & Storper, M. (2024). Frontier workers and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity. Journal of Economic Geography, 24(3), 393-414.
Connor, D. S., Berg, A. K., Kemeny, T., & Kedron, P. J. (2024). Who gets left behind by left behind places?. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 17(1), 37-58.
Suss, J., Kemeny, T., & Connor, D. S. (2024). GEOWEALTH: spatial wealth inequality data for the United States, 1960-2020. Scientific Data. Volume 11, article number 253.
Connor, D. S., Xie, S., Uhl, J. H., Talbot, C., Hester, C., Jaworski, T., ... & Hunter, L. (2024), Spatial poverty dynamics and social mobility in rural America. Population, Space and Place, e2802.
Ó Gráda, C., Anbinder, T., Connor, D., & Wegge, S. A. (2023). The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 56(4), 240-259.
Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., Catron, P., Connor, D., & Voigt, R. (2023). The refugee advantage: English-language attainment in the early twentieth century. Sociological Science, 10, 769-805.
Connor, D. S., Hunter, L., Jang, J., & Uhl, J. H. (2023). Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 87, 100844.
Jamme, H. T., & Connor, D. S. (2023). Diffusion of the Internet-of-Things (IoT): A framework based on smart retail technology. Applied Geography, 161, 103122.
Uhl, J. H., Hunter, L. M., Leyk, S., Connor, D. S., Nieves, J. J., Hester, C., ... & Gutmann, M. (2023), Place-level urban–rural indices for the United States from 1930 to 2018, Landscape and Urban Planning, 236, 104762.
Braswell A. E., Leyk S, Connor D. S., Uhl J. H. (2022), Creeping disaster along the U.S. coastline: Understanding exposure to sea level rise and hurricanes through historical development, PLoS ONE 17(8): e0269741.
Sheehan, C., Zajacova, A., Connor, D., & Montez, J. K. (2022), State-level variation in the association between educational attainment and sleep, Population Research and Policy Review, 41(3), 1137-1160.
Connor, D. (2021), In the name of the father? Fertility, religion and child naming in the demographic transition, Demography 58 (5), 1793-1815.
Uhl, J., Connor, D. S., Leyk, S., Braswell A. (2021), A century of decoupling size and structure of urban spaces in the United States, Communications Earth and Environment, 2, article 20.
Uhl, J. H., Leyk, S., McShane, C. M., Braswell, A. E., Connor, D. S., & Balk, D. (2021), Fine-grained, spatio-temporal datasets measuring 200 years of land development in the United States, Earth System Science Data, 13, 119-153.
Connor, D. S., Storper, M. (2020), The changing geography of social mobility in the United States, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (48).
Hunter, L. M., Talbot, C. B., Connor, D. S., Counterman, M., Uhl, J. H., Gutmann, M. P., & Leyk, S. (2020), Change in US Small Town Community Capitals, 1980–2010, Population Research and Policy Review, 39, 913-940.
Leyk, S., Uhl, J. H., Connor, D. S., Braswell, A. E., Mietkiewicz, N., Balch, J. K., & Gutmann, M. (2020), Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States, Science Advances, 6(23), eaba2937.
Connor, D. S. (2020), Class background, reception context and intergenerational mobility: A record linkage and surname analysis of the children of Irish immigrants, International Migration Review, 54(1), 4-34.
Connor, D. S., Gutmann, M., Clement, K., Cunningham, A., Leyk, S. (2020), How entrenched is the spatial structure of inequality in cities? Integrating Census and Zillow building data for Denver from 1940-2016, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 110(4), 1022-1039.
Connor, D. S. (2019), The cream of the crop? Geography, networks and Irish migrant selection in the Age of Mass Migration, The Journal of Economic History, 79(1), 139-175.
Connor, D. S. (2018), A review of Do We Need Economic Inequality? by Danny Dorling, Economic Geography, 94(3), 321-323.
Connor, D. S. (2017), Poverty, religious differences and child mortality in the early 20th Century: The case of Dublin, Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107(3), 625-646.
Connor, D. S., G., Mills, and N., Moore-Cherry, (2011), The 1911 Census and Dublin City: A spatial analysis, Irish Geography, 44(2-3), 245-263.
Courses
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 692 | Research |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 598 | Special Topics |
GIS 469 | Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci |
SOC 469 | Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci |
CDE 469 | Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci |
GCU 351 | Population Geography |
GCU 351 | Population Geography |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 469 | Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci |
SOC 469 | Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci |
GIS 598 | Special Topics |
CDE 469 | Multivariate Stats for Soc Sci |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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GCU 496 | Geographic Research Methods |
GIS 494 | Special Topics |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
CDE 498 | Pro-Seminar |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
CDE 498 | Pro-Seminar |
GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
GIS 494 | Special Topics |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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CDE 498 | Pro-Seminar |
GCU 496 | Geographic Research Methods |
GIS 494 | Special Topics |