Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
Graduate Chair, Sociology
PhD, Sociology, University of Washington
Patrick Denice is a sociologist who studies inequality in education and in the workplace. Some of his recent work looks at the potential of school choice policies to attenuate or exacerbate patterns of segregation in urban public education systems. He is also interested in students' nontraditional pathways to and through postsecondary education, including a focus on older adults who return to school. Additional projects examine the implications of workplace institutions and practices -- including labour unions and policies barring workers from discussing their earnings with their colleagues -- for workers' wages.
Areas of Specialization
- Social inequality and mobility
- Education
- Labour markets
- Determinants of wages
- Life course
- Quantitative methods
Selected Publications
- Oswalt, Michael, Jake Rosenfeld, and Patrick Denice. 2024. “Power and pay secrecy.” Indiana Law Journal 99(1): 43-125.
- Choi, Kate H., and Patrick Denice. 2023. “Racial/ethnic variation in the relationship between educational assortative mating and wives’ income trajectories.” Demography 60(1): 227-254.
- Denice, Patrick. 2022. “Spatial mismatch and the share of Black, Hispanic, and White students enrolled in charter schools.” Sociology of Education 95(4): 276-301.
- Denice, Patrick, Michael DeArmond, and Matthew Carr. 2021. "When schools open: Student mobility and racial sorting across new charter schools in Kansas City, Missouri." Journal of Urban Affairs DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2020.1770605.
- Denice, Patrick A. 2021. "Choosing and Changing Course: Postsecondary Students and the Process of Selecting a Major Field of Study." Sociological Perspectives 64(1): 82-108.
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Contact Information
Dr. Patrick Denice
Department of Sociology
Room 5407, Social Science Centre
- 519-661-2111 ext. 85725
- fax: 519-661-3200
- pdenice@uwo.ca
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