Professor Michael Lens (UCLA) recently published Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods (Russel Sage), which “examines the characteristics and trajectories of Black neighborhoods across the United States over the 50 years since passage of the Fair Housing Act.”
Willow Lung Amam (U.MD) published The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge (University of California Press), “investigates how marginalized communities in the suburbs of Washington, DC—one of the most intensely gentrifying metropolitan regions in the United States—have battled the uneven costs and benefits of redevelopment.
NYU Professor Ingrid Gould Ellen co-authored “Race, Space, and Take-Up: Explaining Housing Voucher Lease-up Rates” in the Journal of Housing Economics and “Neighborhoods And Health: Interventions at The Neighborhood Level Could Help Advance Health Equity.” in Health Affairs.
GWU Professor Greg Squires published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice titled “Wins, Losses, and Lessons of Engaged Social Justice Research: How Academic Institutions Nurture and Undermine Collaborative Community-Based Scholarship”
Along with artist Tonika Lewis Johnson, Maria Krysan (U.Illinois-Chicago) has just published Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It (Polity Press), a “collection of intimate stories and evocative photos that uncover the hidden influence of both subtle and overt ‘don’t go’ messages and the segregation they perpetuate in Chicago.”
Jacob Faber (NYU Wagner School) co-authored “Still Victimized in a Thousand Ways: Segregation as a Tool for Exploitation in the Twenty-First Century” (Annual Review of Sociology, 2024).
Stefanie DeLuca (Johns Hopkins) coauthored “Increasing Residential Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders: The Importance of Supportive Staff for Families and Landlords” in HUD’s Summer 2024 Cityscape journal.
Ann Owens (USC) coauthored “60 Years after Brown: Trends and consequences of school segregation,” in the Annual Review of Sociology.
Professor Jamila Michener will direct Cornell University’s new Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures. https://equitablefutures.cornell.edu/
