Paul A. Jargowsky, PhD, is Professor of Public Policy at Rutgers University – Camden and Director of the Center for Urban Research and Education. His principal research interests are inequality, the geographic concentration of poverty, and residential segregation by race and class. His book, Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City (1997), is a comprehensive examination of poverty at the neighborhood level in U.S. metropolitan areas between 1970 and 1990. The Urban Affairs Association named it the “Best Book in Urban Affairs Published in 1997 or 1998.” His Century Foundation report, The Architecture of Segregation: Civil Unrest, the Concentration of Poverty, and Public Policy, detailed the re-concentration of poverty since 2000.

Jargowsky received a Ph.D. in Public Policy in 1991 from Harvard University, where he was also a visiting Professor in 1997-1998. Jargowsky was a 2016-2017 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Current areas of research include racial and economic segregation, the impacts of economic and spatial inequality, and the consequences of exclusionary suburban development patterns.

At Rutgers University – Camden, he teaches courses on social policy and empirical methods in the Public Affairs program.