Chenoa Flippen, Ph.D.

Chenoa Flippen is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research centers on racial and ethnic inequality and immigrant incorporation in the United States. Within these broad areas, her work focuses on the connection between geographic and social mobility, particularly the implications for stratification of the geographic dispersion of the U.S. minority population via internal migration and new areas of immigrant settlement; the contextual forces shaping ethno-racial inequality in wealth, particularly homeownership; the link between gender and migration; life-course and aging, especially as it relates to minority well-being; and Latino immigrant incorporation and health in new areas of destination in the American South.