Dr Sonya Glavac
Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
B.A. (Hons) M.A. (Queensland), PhD (Arizona)
Contact
| Email: | sglavac@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Earth Sciences (C2) 322 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3124 (or +61 2 6773 3124 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3030 |
Sonya is a population /urban geographer who has held academic positions at universities in both Australia and the United States over the past fifteen years. Her PhD research was on the propensity of return migration from Australia.
Research interests
Sonya’s teaching and research interests focus on international, seasonal and intra-urban migration, population forecasting, and the role of these factors on land-use change. Her recent research is centered on three topics: (1) the impact of seasonal migration to lakeshore communities in the Ozarks, U.S.A.; (2) the attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy held by U.S. citizens and those on the front lines of the immigration debates, namely those in the civilian border patrol Minuteman Project, and the desert humanitarian groups Samaritans/No More Deaths; and (3) an empirical study undertaken in Phoenix, AZ on neighborliness. The goal of the work has been to assess whether there are social differences between private neighborhoods managed via a Home Owner Association (HOA), and more traditional neighborhoods based on voluntary associations.