Pat Rubio Goldsmith
Associate Professor of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies
Office: Bolton Hall 716
Phone: (414) 229-6945
E-mail: goldsmit@uwm.edu
Fall Office Hours: MW 10:00-10:50 and by appointment
Degree: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Research Interests: Education; Race and Ethnicity; Sociology of Sport; Quantitative Methods.
Teaching Interests: Graduate methods Sociology of Education; Statistics for the Social Sciences; Latinos and Latinas in the U.S.; Racial and Ethnic Relations; Sport in Society
Spring 2010 Course
SOCIOL 261-402: Introduction to Statistical Thinking in Sociology
Fall 2009 Courses
SOCIOL 261-402: Introduction to Statistical Thinking in Sociology (pdf)
SOCIOL 750-001: Research Methods in Sociology (pdf)
Selected Publications:
Forthcoming, 2010 “Learning Apart, Living Apart: How the Racial and Ethnic Segregation of Schools and Colleges Perpetuates Residential Segregation.” Teachers College Record.
2009 “Schools, Neighborhoods, or Both? Educational Attainment and Race and Ethnic Segregation.” Social Forces 87(4):1913-43.
2009 with Saylor Breckenridge, Wake Forest University. “Spectacle, Distance, and Threat: Attendance and Integration of Major League Baseball, 1930-1961.” Sociology of Sport Journal 26:296-319.
2009 with Raquel Rubio Goldsmith, Manual Escobedo, Mary Romero, and Laura Khoury. “Ethnic Profiling, Barrios, and State Violence.” Aztlan 34(1):93-123.
2008 With Mary Romero. “’Aliens,’ ‘Illegals,’, and other Types of ‘Mexicanness’: Examination of Racial Profiling in Border Policing.” In Race, Human Rights and Inequality edited by Angela J. Hattery, David Embrick and Earl Smith. Rowan and Littlefield.
2006 “Learning to Understand Diversity: Getting Students Past Ideology.” Teaching Sociology 34:263-77.
2004 “Schools’ Role in Shaping Race Relations: Evidence on Friendliness and Conflict.” Social Problems 51:587-612.
2004 "Schools’ Racial Mix, Students’ Optimism, and the Black-White and Latino-White Achievement Gaps.” Sociology of Education 77:121-147.