Social Sciences Division
Professor
Faculty
Rachel Carson College Academic Building
208
Wednesdays 9-12
Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
Urban sociology, geography, urban environmental studies, urban political ecology, disaster and crisis, sustainability studies, housing, media and cultural studies, social movements, social theory, California studies.
Articles:
2024. “Relational Geographies of Urban Unsustainability: The entanglement of California’s Housing Crisis with WUI Growth and Climate Change,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. July 29. Co-authored with Hillary Angelo, Elena Losada, and Christopher C. Wilmers, For special issue on climate change in California.
2023. “Environmentalizing Urban Sociology” City & Community, 22(4), 257-265. Co-authored with Hillary Angelo.
2021. “Seeking Shelter: How Housing and Urban Exclusion Shape Exurban Disaster” in Sociologica, 15(1), 67–89.
2021. “The Progressive Disjuncture on Land Use and Housing: Learning from the Leftmost City.” New Labor Forum, Fall 2021
Chapters in books:
2025. “De-Naturing the City: Race, Real Estate, and the Genealogy of “Urban Ecology” as Metaphor and Practice.” in Ryan Centner and Leonard Nevarez eds. Oxford Handbook of Urban Sociology. Co-authored with Hillary Angelo. forthcoming.
2021. “First Publics’ as Knowledge Producers: Integrating Students into Organic Public Sociology” in L. Hossfeld, E. B. Kelly, and C. Hossfeld (eds). The Routledge International Handbook of Public Sociology. London and New York: Routledge Press, Co-authored with R. London and S. McKay
Books:
2017. The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age. Cornell University Press.
2014. Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans. Oxford University Press. Co-authored with Kevin Fox Gotham.
2008. Branding New York: How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World. Routledge.
