Amber R. Crowell is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fresno. She has previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center. She earned her PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M University. Her research is on residential segregation, racial and ethnic inequality, housing, and quantitative research methods. She has co-authored articles in professional journals on the micro-level determinants of metropolitan residential segregation patterns using innovative new methods of measurement and analysis. She has also published on evictions and inequalities in the rental housing market. She has received numerous grants to support research in the areas of residential segregation and housing.

Mark Fossett is Professor of Sociology and College of Liberal Arts Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas where he has served as Department Head, Founding Director of the Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center, and President of the Southwestern Sociological Association and the Southern Demographic Association. His research on urban and spatial demography, racial-ethnic segregation and inequality, and quantitative research methods has been supported by major funding agencies and has been published in multiple books and in many dozens of book chapters and articles in professional journals. His bookNew Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation(Springer 2017) introduces methods used in this work.