Public Sociology. Ethnography. Community. Engagement.
​Urban Environments.

As a public urban sociologist, I am passionate about studying people, environments and communities, comparing that with what we already know to create new perspectives on our society and sharing that with both the academic and public world. 
I teach my students how we can understand our society and encourage them as well as myself to make that knowledge practical, applicable and useful on the ground via service learning and experiential learning.

What's New

Crown Series (in conjunction with Mural Arts)


I am honored to be part of Russell Craig's Crown series mural dedicated to honoring BIPOC activists in Philadelphia fighting to end and heal from systematic racism and inequality. 

Review of Book:
Stay Woke: A Peoples Guide To Making All Black Lives Matter

I write: "We aren’t ‘‘almost there’’ when we live with the impact and vestiges of decades-old logic and policies like vagrancy laws, the Thirteenth Amendment, and residential and school segregation that require a full account of the ways they support a second-class citizenship for Black Americans and other minorities. "

Check out the review and get your copy today!

Book Out!
Black In America: The Paradox of the Color Line (2019)