Robert Manduca received his PhD in sociology and public policy from Harvard University, and currently is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. Robert has published more than a dozen scholarly articles on economic inequality. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Review, and more. Robert is the co-host of the podcast Reviving Growth Keynesianism, a project to explore the history of U.S. economic thought.
Robert Manduca
Assistant Professor
Robert Manduca
Assistant Professor
Education
PhD, Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University (2020)
MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014)
BA with High Honors, Economics, Swarthmore College (2010)
Areas of Study
Housing, Sociology, Spatial Inequality
Related Projects
- Reviving Growth Keynesianism (2020) – Effort to republish forgotten works of economics, and a podcast focusing on interviews with current scholars working on political economy, economic history, and the history of economic thought.
- Tomorrow Without Fear (2017) – Republication of a lost classic of postwar American Keynesian economics, in plain language. Read more here, and an interview with the author’s son, economist Sam Bowles, here.
- Where Are The Jobs (2015) – Web visualization of all jobs in the United States, mapped at the block level. Sourced from the Census LODES dataset.
- US Migration Patterns (2014) – Web visualization of gross migration flows between metros based on IRS change of address forms.
Manduca, R. 2023. “I Was Open to Anywhere, It’s Just This Was Easier:” Social Structure, Location Preferences, and the Geographic Concentration of Elite College Graduates. Qualitative Sociology.
Fritz, B. S. L., and Manduca, R. A. 2021. The Economic Complexity of US Metropolitan Areas. Regional Studies 55(7):1299-1310.
Manduca, R., and Sampson, R.J. 2021. Childhood Exposure to Polluted Environments and Intergenerational Income Mobility, Teenage Birth, and Incarceration in the USA. Population and Environment 42(4):501-523.
Manduca, R. 2021. The Spatial Structure of US Metropolitan Employment: New Insights from Administrative Data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48(5):1357:1372.
Spicer, J., Manduca, R., and Kay, T. 2020. National Living Wage Movements in a Regional World: The Fight for $15 in the United States. In Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment (Labor and Employment Relations Association Annual Research Volume).