Max Besbris
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Email: besbris@wisc.edu
Website: Max Besbris's website
I am a sociologist of housing and I have published widely on topics such as real estate agents’ role in the housing market, discrimination in housing and consumer markets, and how people make housing decisions after a climate-related disaster. I have a BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Sociology from NYU.
Research areas: Housing, Discrimination, Markets, Disaster recovery
IDS Research
2023 Seed Grant Project: Ethnoracial Variation in Neighborhood Knowledge and Neighborhood Desirability in the Market for Rental Housing: Survey and Experimental Evidence Across Five U.S. Cities