Suzanne Davies Withers

Associate Professor

Suzanne Withers

Contact Information

swithers@uw.edu

Smith 12

Office Hours

By appointment

Personal Website

Fields of Interest

Population Poverty Research Methods Urban Studies

Biography

Ph.D., UCLA, 1992

M.A., Queen's University, Canada, 1988

B.A., Queen's University, Canada, 1986

Research

Selected Research

Clark, William AV, and Suzanne Davies Withers. "Fertility, mobility and labour‐force participation: A study of synchronicity." Population, Space and Place 15, no. 4 (2009): 305-321.
Withers, Suzanne Davies, William A. V. Clark, and Tricia Ruiz. "Demographic Variation in Housing Cost Adjustments with US Family Migration." Population, Space and Place 14, no. 4 (2008): 305-25.
Withers, Suzanne Davies, and William AV Clark. "Housing costs and the geography of family migration outcomes." Population, Space and Place 12, no. 4 (2006): 273-289.
Clark, William AV, Youqin Huang, and Suzanne Withers. "Does commuting distance matter?: Commuting tolerance and residential change." Regional Science and Urban Economics 33, no. 2 (2003): 199-221.
S. Davies Withers. "Quantitative Methods: Advancement in Ecological Inference." Progress in Human Geography 25, no. 1 (2001): 87-96.

Research Advised

Bowditch, E., & Withers, S. D. (2012). Youth rights, truancy and Washington State’s Becca Bill. University of Washington.

Courses Taught

Spring 2025

Winter 2025

Autumn 2024

GEOG 245 A: Geodemographics: Population, Diversity, and Place

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Autumn 2022

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

Affiliations

Home Department

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