Dylan Connor
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Mail code: 5302Campus: Tempe
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Dylan Connor is an associate professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. As a computational social scientist, he studies how cities and communities shape social mobility, inequality, and the transmission of advantage and disadvantage over long periods of time. He is a specialist in causal inference and the application of big data analytics to historical and spatial data.
He has written on a wide range of topics, including the changing geography of the American Dream, immigrant selectivity and refugees, rural America, Irish fertility, Jewish economic mobility and, even, historical trends in baby naming.
His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health, and he has published in leading outlets including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, Demography, Journal of Economic History, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. His findings have been discussed in popular outlets including Brookings, Business Insider, RTE, Marginal Revolution, and on prime-time radio.
For further information on his work, visit his Google Scholar profile or his research website.
- PhD Geography, University of California Los Angeles
- MSc Statistics, University of Leuven
- MA Geography, University College Dublin
- BA Economics & Geography, University College Dublin
Published
Connor, D. S., Berg, A., Kemeny T., Kedron, P. (2024), Who gets left behind by left behind places?, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L. P., & Connor, D. S. (2024), Leaving the enclave: Historical evidence on immigrant mobility from the industrial removal office, Journal of Economic History. (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper w27372).
Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L. P., Catron, P., Connor, D. S., Voigt, R. (2023), The Refugee Advantage: English-Language Attainment in the Early Twentieth Century, Sociological Science.
Connor, D. S., Hunter, L., Jang, J., & Uhl, J. (2023). Family, Community, and the Rural Social Mobility Advantage. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Connor, D. S., Kemeny T., Storper, M. (2023), Frontier workers, and the seedbeds of inequality and prosperity. Journal of Economic Geography.
Anbinder, T., Connor, D. S., Ó Gráda, C., & Wegge, S. (2023), The Problem of False Positives in Automated Census Linking: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century New York's Irish Immigrants. Historical Methods.
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
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 |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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GIS 470 | Adv Stats Geography & Planning |
CDE 498 | Pro-Seminar |
GIS 494 | Special Topics |