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Richard Williams is Full Professor and former Chair of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame's College of Arts and Letters. His research explores quantitative methods, demography, urban sociology, and social psychology with specialized focus on racial disparities in housing markets, methodological issues in categorical data analysis, and bibliometric assessment of academic productivity.
Professor Williams has secured over $300,000 in research funding from agencies including NSF and HUD, leading studies on mortgage lending discrimination and demographic patterns. His methodological innovations include developing Stata modules for ordinal regression and panel data analysis that have been widely adopted in social science research.
Honors include the Stata Journal Editors' Prize (2015) for his work on marginal effects estimation, the Ganey Community-Based Research Award (2003), and Distinguished Service Award from Notre Dame's Faculty Senate (2018). His recent publications demonstrate sustained focus on advancing statistical methodologies for social science applications.
As graduate advisor, Professor Williams has supervised 15 Master's theses and 9 doctoral dissertations examining topics ranging from housing segregation to fertility transitions. He maintains extensive professional service as Associate Editor for The Sociological Quarterly and Stata Journal, while previously chairing the ASA's Lazarsfeld Award Committee.
