Brian Levy

Brian Levy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina, studying urban inequality through neighborhood networks and mobility patterns. His research examines how connections between neighborhoods influence crime, health outcomes, and socioeconomic inequality.

Current projects analyze neighborhood mobility networks using big data, developing measures of city-level integration that reveal new dimensions of racial and ethnic inequality. As Co-PI on NSF-funded projects, he investigates pandemic impacts on social isolation and nuisance flooding effects on mobility inequalities.

He teaches courses on urban sociology, inequality, and research methods. Recent publications appear in Science Advances, Demography, and American Sociological Review. His work demonstrates how neighborhood networks significantly predict COVID-19 infection rates and wealth inequality.