Heather A. O’Connell

Louisiana State University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

13h-index623citations42works1.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies(21), Homelessness and Social Issues(5), American History and Culture(5), Migration, Refugees, and Integration(4), Spatial and Panel Data Analysis(4)

Publications42 total

Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Geographic Distribution of Registered Sex Offender Concentration: Another Dimension of Racial Inequality?
Race and Social Problems·2025Open Access
Contested Confederate Monument Inscriptions
2025
Contested Confederate Monument Inscriptions
2025
Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews·2024· 4 cited
Confederate Monuments and Anti-Black Stereotypes in the U.S. South
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery
Demography·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Race and Racism in Family Research
National symposium on family issues·2023
Monuments, Movements, and Race
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements·2022
Structural racism, family structure, and Black–White inequality: The differential impact of the legacy of slavery on poverty among single mother and married parent households
Journal of Marriage and the Family·2022· 39 citedOpen Access
(Re)Emerging from the Shadows: Charles S. Johnson and His Research on the Black Belt
2022
Racism and Confederate Monument Construction: Temporal Regimes Distinguishing the 1900s, 1960s, and Contemporary Decades
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity·2021· 11 citedOpen Access
More than Just Independent Subfields: An Introduction to a Special Issue on Race and Space
Spatial Demography·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
More than Rocks and Stone: Confederate Monuments, Memory Movements, and Race
Social Forces·2021· 19 citedOpen Access
<i>Immigration and the Remaking of Black America</i>. By Tod G. Hamilton. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2019. Pp. xxvi+287. $35.00 (paper).
American Journal of Sociology·2020
One drop on the move: historical legal context, racial classification, and migration
Ethnic and Racial Studies·2020· 12 citedOpen Access
Hispanic Population Growth and Black–White Inequality: Changing Demographics, Changing Social Positions?
Spatial Demography·2020
Population change and the legacy of slavery
Social Science Research·2020· 23 citedOpen Access
CONFEDERATE MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS
Du Bois Review Social Science Research on Race·2020· 14 citedOpen Access
Monuments outlive history: Confederate monuments, the legacy of slavery, and black-white inequality
Ethnic and Racial Studies·2019· 53 citedOpen Access
Streetlights in the City: Understanding the Distribution of Houston Streetlights
Rice Digital Scholarship Archive (Rice University)·2019· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Katherine J. Curtis(6), Jenifer L. Bratter(4), Robert L. Reece(2), Junho Lee(2), Jun Zhu(2), Jack DeWaard(2), Regina Baker(1), Perla E. Reyes(1), Adam Slez(1), Danequa L. Forrest(1), Raul S. Casarez(1), Carla Shoff(1), Kiara Wyndham Douds(1), Megan M. Wisniewski(1), Ethan J. Raker(1), Junia Howell(1), Lester O. King(1), Alex Mikulas(1), Marcus Venable(1), KayLynn Marie Larrison(1)