Mark Ellis

About

Mark Ellis is a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington. His fields of interest include labor, migration, population segregation, statistical methods, and urban biography. He earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1988. His research involves exploring themes such as neighborhood imaginaries, residential eviction and displacement, spatial and socioeconomic contributions to hospital charge markup, and racial change in neighborhoods. Ellis has taught courses on internal migration in the United States, immigrant trends and policies, and the geography of the world economy. His work contributes to understanding social and spatial dynamics within urban environments, with a focus on migration patterns, neighborhood change, and social segregation.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Demography
• Geography
• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Regional science
• Statistics
• Socioeconomics
• Anthropology
• Gender studies

Selected publications

• A Prospective on Zelinsky's Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition

  Geographical Review · 2018-07-19 · 69 citations

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  Wilbur Zelinsky's 1971 paper in Geographical Review entitled the “Hypothesis of the Mobility Transition” was both forward‐looking and offered innovative ideas regarding human geographic mobility. One of the most interesting aspects of the paper was a set of predictions for mobility in a “future superadvanced society”. Many of these predictions have now come to pass, including a general decline in international and internal migration and residential change, the increasing regulation of migration…

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• Remaking white residential segregation: metropolitan diversity and neighborhood change in the United States

  Urban Geography · 2017-08-16 · 53 citations

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  Between 1990 and 2010, the white population share in US metropolitan areas fell from 73.5 percent to 60.3 percent. This paper explores how this decline affected the number and composition of white census tracts (tracts in which non-Latino whites constitute the largest group). In 1990, white tracts comprised 82 percent of all metropolitan tracts. By 2010, this percentage had fallen to 70 percent, paralleling the percentage point drop in white population share. This loss was concentrated among the…

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• Ethnic diversification and neighbourhood mixing: A rapid response analysis of the 2021 Census of England and Wales

  Geographical Journal · 2023 · 47 citations

  Abstract This paper provides a rapid response analysis of the changing geographies of ethnic diversity and segregation in England and Wales using Census data covering the last 30 years (1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021), a period of significant social, economic and political change. Presenting the first detailed analysis of 2021 Census small area ethnic group data, we find that the growth of ethnic diversity at the national level is mirrored across residential neighbourhoods. Increasing numbers of neig…

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• The evolution and stability of multi‐ethnic residential neighbourhoods in England

  Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers · 2020 · 35 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  This paper analyses the most ethnically diverse spaces in England. We define multi-ethnic neighbourhoods as spaces where no one group is in a majority and at least five ethnic groups have representation. Around 4% of all English neighbourhoods (Lower Layer Super Output Areas) met these criteria in 2011. Often mislabelled as "segregated" spaces, the growth of ethnically diverse neighbourhoods helps benchmark increased inter-ethnic contact, yet we know very little about their spatial extent and th…

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• The Instability of Highly Racially Diverse Residential Neighborhoods in the United States

  Sociology of Race and Ethnicity · 2018-12-21 · 23 citations

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  This research concerns the location and stability of highly racially diverse census tracts in the United States. Like some other scholars, the authors define such tracts conservatively, requiring the significant presence of at least three racialized groups. Of the approximately 65,000 tracts in the country, there were 197 highly diverse tracts in 1990 and 998 in 2010. Most were located in large metropolitan areas. Stably integrated highly diverse tracts were the exception rather than the rule. T…

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Enclaves, Labor Markets, and the Locational Choices of U.S. Immigrants in Economic Boom and Bust

  NSF · $304k · 2010–2016

Frequent coauthors

• Richard Wright

  Pacific Heart Institute

  75 shared

• Steven R. Holloway

  University of Georgia

  21 shared

• Lee Fiorio

  University of Washington

  9 shared

• John Odland

  9 shared

• Gemma Catney

  Queen's University Belfast

  6 shared

• Leonard J. Cole

  6 shared

• Jamie Goodwin‐White

  University of California, Los Angeles

  6 shared

• Kathy Campbell

  5 shared

Labs

• Department of Geography, University of WashingtonPI

Awards & honors

• 2021 Awards, Honors and Achievements (June 8, 2021)
• Announcing Our 2021 Halmo Geography Scholar: Elizabeth Their…
• 2020 Awards, Honors and Achievements (June 16, 2020)
• Ph.D. Candidate Caitlin Alcorn Wins AAG's Geographic Perspec…

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