John R. Logan

John R. Logan
Born
John Richard Logan

1946 (age 7879)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisIndustrialization, Repression, and Working Class Militancy in Spain (1974)
Doctoral advisorArthur Stinchcombe
Other advisorsImmanuel Wallerstein
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Doctoral studentsMin Zhou
Main interestsHousing discrimination in the United States
Notable worksUrban Fortunes (1987)

John Richard Logan (born 1946) is a professor of sociology at Brown University, where he has taught since 2004. The courses he teaches primarily focus on urban sociology, urban policy and spatial analysis.

Before joining Brown, he was a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University at Albany. He also served as Director of the Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research and the Urban China Research Network. At Brown, he served as the director of research initiative on spatial structure in the social sciences, from 2004-2016. His research on studying the changes in residential patterns utilizes contemporary and historical census data. This framework was utilized to approach his other research projects focusing on urban sociology, immigration, segregation, and studies related to the People's Republic of China.