O’Connell, Heather A. 2012. “The Legacy of Slavery and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the Contemporary South.” Social Forces 90: 713-734.

Katherine J. Curtis, Perla Reyes, Heather A. O’Connell, and Jun Zhu. “Disentangling the Spatial Concentration and Temporal Persistence of Poverty: Industrial Structure, Racial/Ethnic Composition, and the Complex Links to Poverty.” In Press at Spatial Demography

O’Connell, Heather A. and Carla Shoff. “Spatial Variation in Relationships and the Meaning of Hispanic Concentration for County Poverty.” Forthcoming at Spatial Demography