Population Research Discovery Seminars
The Guest Lecture - From Human Ecology to Social Ties to Assimilation: The Legacy of Pete Guest
Susan Brown, Professor of Sociology, University of California Irvine
Parrington Hall Room 360
To Join By Zoom: Register HERE
Follow this link to sign up for a 1:1 meeting with Dr. Brown during their visit on October 17th
10/17/2025
12:30-1:30 PM PT
360 Parrington Hall
Co-Sponsor(s):
Avery M. “Pete” Guest was one of the last giants of the traditional field of human ecology. His interests ranged from neighborhood persistence to social ties, to the structure and social importance of suburbanization, to assimilation, and more, with a strong historical bent. While his students have taken his interests in multiple directions, I focus on how Pete Guest influenced my work in the field of immigrant integration, with a focus on traditional structural and spatial integration and ultimately on legal status and other types of restrictions to social inclusion.
Susan K. Brown is professor emerita of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She is co-author of Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration (2015), winner of the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the American Sociological Association, and author of Beyond the Immigrant Enclave: Network Change and Assimilation (2004). Her research focuses on the integration of immigrant groups across generations in the United States, residential segregation, and inequality of access to higher education. She directed the UCI master’s program in Demographic and Social Analysis