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Dr. Clark received his PhD from the Sociology Department at the University of Georgia in 2024. He is interested in how social inequalities are reproduced through institutional and governmental structures, policies, and practices. He engages with quantitative and qualitative methods.
Dr. Clark’s pedagogical approach focuses on training sociologists. His courses involve a semester long research paper, where students build up a project over the semester to produce a final product. As writing is an important part of the learning process, he trains students how to write various pieces of a research paper and his students learn beyond the course material through their writing. Fernando takes a holistic approach to teaching and continuously provides information about resources around campus that help with various personal and academic needs.
His work tests racial invariances thesis’s applicability to the Latinx community by examining the role of racial segregation and immigration concentration on violent crime. In addition, he is also analyzing the effect of crime on residential mobility and the moderating effect of political factors. He uses multilevel and longitudinal methods to analyze data from the National Neighborhood Crime Study 2 (1999-2013). 

Research and Teaching Interests

Urban Criminology
Latinx Sociology
Social Stratification
Mental Health
History of Sociology
Methods and Methodology