Public Sociology. Ethnography. Community. Engagement.
Urban Environment
Photo Credit: Kim Fleisher
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.
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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.
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What's New
“Why Can’t Gentrification Fix What’s Already Here?”
Check out the new article recently published with a recent Sociology and Anthropology undergraduate. "Advertisements and slogans of “new and improved” places either bypass older residents already living there in a kind of Columbus-style or colonial way, or they repackage the culture that was there in ways to promote more consumerism, like in the cases of Atlantic City." |
The Green New Deal in South Jersey
All are invited to a few talks about environmental justice and the implications of the AOC's Green New Deal in South Jersey at Stockton.
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New Volume is Out!
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The Public Meeting: Embodied Dissent in Urban SpacesRead my short piece featured on an embodiment blog about public discourse around protest using redevelopment and gentrification in San Francisco as examples but also extending how we think about "rioting" vs "celebration" here in Philly with the Eagles vs national BLM protests.
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