William A.V. Clark

Professor William A.V. Clark is the Research Professor of Geography at University of California Los Angeles. He has provided fundamental insights into the role of preferences, discrimination, and public intervention in generating ethnic and racial separation in America's large urban regions. Additionally, he has crafted multiple survey-based tests of the Schelling segregation model and contributed innovative analyses of the connections among mobility, migration, and housing choice. His current research is focused on three broad research topics – (1) residential segregation and residential selection with urban areas, (2) the neighborhood context of housing choice and community attachment, and (3) patterns of migration, mobility, and labor force participation across cities and regions.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1992.