Dr. Friedman is an Associate Professor and Internship Director of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. Her research focuses on housing market discrimination, racial and ethnic segregation, and disparities in residential attainment by race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nativity status, and religion. In 2015, Dr. Friedman completed a yearlong Fulbright fellowship in Turkey studying residential segregation and housing inequality by socioeconomic status. She is currently studying racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in New York City and in pediatric asthma in metropolitan America. Dr. Friedman is also examining racial and ethnic disparities in eviction among renters and the role of housing tenure as it relates to disaster preparedness among Hispanics. Dr. Friedman has published articles in several journals including Demography, City & Community, and Urban Studies and is co-author of The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York’s Housing Market (2007).