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

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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. 

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

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In Atlantic City, the Legacy of Segregation and Redlining Endures

Check out my article published with Shelterforce about redlining, segregation and disinvestment in the Northside of Atlantic City. 

Check out zines that my freshman seminar made about other narratives in Atlantic City.                

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Atlantic City and County Food Insecurity Poll

Atlantic County faces food insecurity issues prior to the pandemic. Check out a new poll I aided with.

Recent 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!

New Book Out!
Black In America: The Paradox of the Color Line