Corina Graif

Graif’s research addresses questions related to how immigration and ethnic diversity shape urban development and impact neighborhood well-being and growth in the US and Europe. She also examines individual-level and structural-level processes underlying the urban geography of inequality shaping the social and spatial paths of opportunity for inner-city dwellers, focusing particularly on the urban poor and on racial, ethnic and immigrant inequalities in neighborhood effects. In her work she deals with theoretical and methodological aspects related to measuring urban diversity, social networks, spatial mobility, crime, ecological systems and spatial interdependencies. In 2007 she received the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science.