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Affiliated PhD Student

Caitlin Gorback

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PhD Candidate, Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Areas of Interest

    About

    Caitlin is a fifth year doctoral student in Wharton's Applied Economics program, specializing in urban and real estate economics. Her ongoing research includes how ride-sharing platforms reshape the commercial landscape of cities by changing residents' consumption patterns, and how liquid global capital flows influence illiquid local markets through housing transactions (joint with Professor Benjamin Keys). Other interests include issues of income and skill distributions in cities, and urban decline and revitalization. Prior to graduate school, Caitlin worked as a research associate at the Federal Research Bank of New York in the capital markets research function. She worked on researching underwater mortgages, the introduction of floating rate treasury notes, and drivers of stock market flash crashes. Caitlin earned her bachelor's degree at Duke University, majoring in Economics, where she wrote her honors thesis on trailer parks and low-income housing options. 

    Faculty Fellow

    Andrea Goulet

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    Professor of French and Francophone Studies

    FIGS Department Chair

    About

    Andrea Goulet is Professor of Romance Languages in the School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to coming to Penn, she served as Associate Professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of two books on French fiction and literature. Her current research interests include 19th and 20th century French fiction, critical theory, science and literature, detective fiction, and nouveau roman literature. She is currently co-chair of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association.

    Selected Publications

    Goulet, Andrea. Forthcoming. “Teaching Les Misérables: Crime and the Popular Press.” In MLA Approaches to Teaching Hugo’s Les Misérables, edited by Michal Ginsburg and Bradley Stephens.

    Goulet, Andrea. 2016. Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Space and Science in French Crime Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

    Goulet, Andrea. 2016. “Du massacre de la rue Transnonain aux ‘drames de la rue: Politique et théâtre de l’espace.” Romantisme 171(2016): 53-64.

    Goulet, Andrea. 2006. Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

    Faculty Fellow

    David Grazian

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    Associate Professor of Sociology and Communication

    About

    David Grazian is Associate Professor of Sociology and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Grazian received his B.A. from Rutgers University in 1994, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2000. He teaches courses on popular culture, mass media and the arts; cities and urban sociology; classical sociological theory; and ethnographic methods. In his research he employs a variety of ethnographic and other qualitative methods to study the production and consumption of commercial entertainment in the urban milieu. He is the author of four books: Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs (Univ. Chicago Press, 2003), On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife (Univ. Chicago Press, 2008), Mix It Up: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society (W.W. Norton, 2010; 2017), and American Zoo: A Sociological Safari (Princeton Univ. Press, 2015).

    Selected Publications

    Grazian, David. 2017. Mix it Up: Popular Culture, Mass Media, and Society, 2nd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton.

    Grazian, David. 2016. American Zoo: A Sociological Safari. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Garner, Betsie and David Grazian. 2016. “Naturalizing Gender through Childhood Socialization Messages in a Zoo.” Social Psychology Quarterly 79(3): 181-198.

    Grazian, David. 2011. On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Grazian, David. 2005. Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Wilson Hernandez

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    PhD Student, Criminology, School of Arts & Sciences

    About

    Wilson is a researcher interested in how urban and social interventions impact crime victimization. He focuses on Latin America, and in particular Peru, in an effort to analyze the side effects of interventions and policies that, by improving neighborhoods, create advantages or negative outcomes in people’s lives, with an emphasis on gender and racial inequalities.

    Currently, Wilson is a Ph.D. student in Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied Economics in Peru and obtained a master’s degree in comparative development studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Wilson has worked as a researcher at GRADE (Peru) on issues related to policing, gender-based violence, and justice, where he led studies that achieved key policy changes.

    Faculty Fellow

    John Jackson, Jr.

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    Penn Provost

    Richard Perry University Professor

    About

    John L. Jackson, Jr., is Walter H. Annenburg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Jackson received his BA in Communication (Radio/TV/Film) summa cum laude from Howard University (1993), earned his PhD in Anthropology with distinction from Columbia University (2000), and served as a junior fellow at the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1999-2002). He is the author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America (University of Chicago Press, 2001); Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity (University of Chicago Press, 2005); Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness (Basic Civitas, 2008); Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem (Harvard University Press, 2013); Impolite Conversations: On Race, Politics, Sex, Money, and Religion, co-written with Cora Daniels (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2014), and Televised Redemption: Black Religious Media and Racial Empowerment (NYU Press, 2016), co-written with Carolyn Rouse and Marla Frederick. His is also editor of Social Policy and Social Justice (2016), distributed by the University of Pennsylvania Press. His most recently completed film, co-directed with Deborah A. Thomas, is Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens (Third World Newsreel, 2012). Jackson previously served as Senior Advisor to the Provost on Diversity and Associate Dean of Administration in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. 

    Selected Publications

    Jackson, John L. 2016. Social Policy and Social Justice. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

    Jackson, John L., Carolyn Rouse, and Marla Frederick. 2016. Televised Redemption: The Media Production of Black Muslims, Jews, and Christians. New York City: New York University Press.

    Jackson, John L. and Cora Daniels. 2014. Impolite Conversations: On Race, Class, Sex, Religion, and Politics. New York City: Atria Books [Simon and Schuster imprint].

    Jackson, John L. 2013. Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Jackson, John L. 2008. Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness. New York City: Basic Civitas.

    Penn IUR Scholar

    Devesh Kapur

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    Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor

    Director of Asia Programs, Johns Hopkins University

    About

    Devesh Kapur is Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor and Director of Asia Programs for Johns Hopkins University. He is formerly the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India and Professor of Political Science in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to arriving at Penn, Kapur was Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and before that the Frederick Danziger Associate Professor of Government at Harvard. His research focuses on human capital, national and international public institutions, and the ways in which local-global linkages, especially international migration and international institutions, affect political and economic change in developing countries, especially India. 

    Selected Publications

    Kapur, Devesh, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav, eds. 2017. Rethinking Public Institutions in India. Oxford University Press.

    Kapur, Devesh, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, eds. 2017. Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Education. Orient BlackSwan.

    Chakravorty, Sanjoy, Devesh Kapur, Nirvikar Singh. 2016. The Other One Percent: Indians in America. Oxford University Press.

    Kapur, Devesh, D. Shyam Babu, and Chandra Bhan Prasad. 2014. Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs.  Random House India. 

    Kapur, Devesh. 2010. Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India. Princeton University Press.

    Faculty Fellow

    David Young Kim

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    Associate Professor of History of Art

    About

    David Young Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art in the School of Arts and Sciences. He teaches and researches Southern Renaissance art, with a focus on art literature, transcultural exchange, and material culture. He received his B.A. in English and French literature from Amherst College (1999) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard (2009), in addition to attending the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7. Before joining the Penn faculty in 2013, he was a postdoctoral faculty fellow (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (2009-2013) and a visiting faculty member at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo in Brazil (2011-2013). In May 2017, he delivered the Tomàs Harris Lectures at the University College London. He received the 2017 Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching for his contributions to undergraduate education.

    Selected Publications

    Kim, David. 2014. The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press.

    Kim, David Y, ed. 2013. Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period. Berlin: Edition Imorde.

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Austin Lee

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    PhD Candidate, Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Philadelphia

    About

    Austin Lee is a current Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Black Studies from Amherst College. Her research focuses on Black people’s use of digital platforms to discuss changes in their physical communities. She’s also interested in neighborhood change and how Black women navigate public space.

    Emerging Scholar

    Desen Lin

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    Assistant Professor of Finance, California State University, Fullerton

    About

    Desen is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the California State University, Fullerton. He received a PhD in Economics at Penn. His research interests include macroeconomics and finance, household finance, and real estate economics. His ongoing research develops a general equilibrium model to examine the land use regulatory impacts on housing prices through the supply restriction and the amenity channels in California. Before attending the University of Pennsylvania, Desen received an undergraduate degree in mathematical economics from Fudan University in China and a master’s degree in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.

    Selected Publications

    Levitin, A. J., Lin D., & Wachter S. M. (forthcoming). Mortgage Risk Premiums during the Housing Bubble. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

    Acolin, A., Lin D., & Wachter S. M. (forthcoming). Endowments and minority homeownership. Cityscape.

    Faculty Fellow

    John MacDonald

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    Professor of Criminology and Sociology

    Director of the Master of Science in Criminology

    About

    John M. MacDonald is a Professor of Criminology and Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences. He focuses primarily on the study of interpersonal violence, race, and ethnic disparities in criminal justice, and the effect of public policy responses on crime. His contributions to public policy research include numerous studies using rigorous, quasi-experimental and experimental designs showing the effects of social policies on crime, of institutional social justice reforms on crime, and the health effects of various policy interventions. He was awarded the Young Experimental Scholar Award by the Academy of Experimental Criminology for significant contributions to experimental research. He also received the David N. Kershaw Award for distinguished contribution to the field of public policy analysis and management from the American Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.

    Selected Publications

    MacDonald, J., Branas, C., & Stokes, R. (2019). Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning. Princeton University Press.

    Ridgeway, Greg and John M MacDonald. 2017. “Effect of Rail Transit on Crime: A Study of Los Angeles from 1988 to 2014.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 33 (2): 277-291.

    Chirico, Michael, Robert Inman, Charles Loeffler, John MacDonald, and Holger Sieg. 2017 “Procrastination and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from a Field Experiment.” National Bureau of Economic Research 23243.

    Kondo, MC, SH Han, GH Donovan, and JM MacDonald. 2017. “The association between urban trees and crime: Evidence from the spread of the emerald ash borer in Cincinnati.” Landscape and Urban Planning 157: 193-199

    MacDonald, JM, N Nicosia, and BD Ukert. 2017. “Do Schools Cause Crime in Neighborhoods? Evidence from the Opening of Schools in Philadelphia.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 1-24.

    Branas, CC, MC Kondo, SM Murphy, EC South, D Polsky, and JM MacDonald. 2016. “Urban blight remediation as a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence.” American Journal of Public Health 106(12): 2158-2164.

    Faculty Fellow

    Iourii Manovskii

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    Professor of Economics

    About

    Professor Manovskii is Professor of Economics at Penn, Associate Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics, Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research, Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. His research encompasses the fields of macroeconomics and labor economics, focusing on the quantitative study of labor markets (employment, unemployment, vacancies, human capital accumulation and destruction, the determination of wages, worker mobility across jobs and occupations, and the behavior of these variables over the business cycle) using dynamic general equilibrium models developed mostly in the field of macroeconomics. These calibrated models are used to study the effects of policies, such as progressive taxes, employer-based health insurance system, and government worker training programs.

    Selected Publications

    Hagedorn, Marcus, Tzuo Hann Law, and Iourii Manovskii. 2017. “Identifying Equilibrium Models of Labor Market Sorting.” Econometrica 85(1): 29-65.

    Hagedorn, Marcus, Iourii Manovskii, and Sergiy Stetsenko. 2016. “Taxation and Unemployment in Models with Heterogeneous Workers.” Review of Economic Dynamics 19(1): 161-189.

    Groess, Fane, Iourii Manovskii, and Philipp Kircher. 2015. “The U-Shapes of Occupational Mobility.” Review of Economic Studies 82(2):  659-692.

    Jeong, Hyeok, Yong Kim, and Iourii Manovskii. 2015. “The Price of Experience.” American Economic Review 105(2): 784-815.

    Hagedorn, Marcus and Iourii Manovskii. 2013. “Job Selection and Wages Over the Business Cycle.” American Economic Review 103(2): 771-803.

    Affiliated PhD Student

    Samuel Ostroff

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    Joint Doctoral Candidate in History and South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania

    About

    Samuel Ostroff is a joint Doctoral Candidate in History and South Asia Studies at Penn. He is currently writing his dissertation on the economic, environmental and imperial aspects of the Indian Ocean pearl trade in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the field of urban studies, his work focuses on port-cities and urban networking across oceanic and global spaces in the early modern world. Aside from his dissertation research, Samuel is interested in urban planning, transportation, and policy in the global cities of the 21st century. Prior to Penn, Samuel completed his B.A. in History at Bucknell University and M.A. in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

     

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