Noli Brazil

Noli Brazil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He received his doctorate in Demography from the University of California Berkeley in 2013 and has established himself as a prominent researcher examining neighborhood dynamics and their social consequences.

Dr. Brazil's research focuses on the causes and consequences of neighborhood inequality, with particular attention to:

• Interactions between neighborhoods and schools
• Determinants of residential mobility and attainment during young adulthood
• Hispanic US internal migration patterns
• Neighborhood gentrification and place-based policies

His recent work has examined how place-based improvement programs often favor gentrifying neighborhoods over those most in need, how school closures disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities, and how residential mobility among young adults can decrease neighborhood poverty gaps. Dr. Brazil employs sophisticated spatial analysis techniques to understand urban mobility patterns and their social implications, with publications in journals including Urban Studies, Social Science & Medicine, and Geographical Analysis.

Dr. Brazil has received media coverage for his work, including from the Wall Street Journal, and is actively involved in the academic community through organizing sessions at the Spatial Data Science Symposium on the use of granular spatial data to examine geospatial mobility in social science research.