Mark Ellis

Faculty Affiliate Mark Ellis is a Professor of Geography at the University of Washington who studies issues of migration, ethnicity, and local labor markets. His most recent poverty-related research includes a study of residential segregation and spatial divisions of labor among immigrants and an investigation of the dynamics of industrial, occupational and regional employment concentrations for native and immigrant populations.

Major Research Projects:

• "Marrying Out" and Fitting In: Interracial Households, Residential Segregation and the Identity of Multiracial Children.
• The Mixed-Race Household in Residential Space: Neighborhood Context, Segregation, and Multiracial identities, 1990-2000.
• Residential Segregation and the Spatial Division of Immigrant Labor in Los Angeles.

Sample Publications:

Ellis, M., Holloway, S. R., Wright, R., and M. East. 2007, The Effects of Mixed-Race Households in Residential Segregation,Urban Geography, 28(6): 554-577.


Ellis, M.; Wright, R.; Parks, V., (2007), Geography and the Immigrant Division of Labor, Economic Geography, 83(3): 255-282.


Wright, R.; Ellis, M., (2006), Mapping others, Progress in Human Geography, 30: 3, 285-288.


Ellis, Mark, Wright, Richard, and Virginia Parks (2006), The Immigrant Household and Spatial Assimilation: Partnership, Nativity, and Neighborhood Location, Urban Geography, 27(1): 1-19.


Ellis, Mark (2006), Unsettling Immigrant Geographies: US Immigration and the Politics of Scale, Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 97: 49-58.

For a complete list of publications by Mark Ellis, visit his page in the poverty research section of the website.

Relevant Courses:

• GEOG 208: Geography of the World Economy: Regional Fortunes and the Rise of Global Markets.
• GEOG 310: Immigrant America
• GEOG 439: Gender, Race and the Geography of Environment
• GEOG 479: Race, Ethnicity and the American City
• GEOG 543: Immigration, Ethnicity and Employment
• GEOG 578: Theorizing the City

Contact Information:

Mark Ellis
Email: ellism@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/ellism
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