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Affiliated PhD Student

Tayeba Batool

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Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology

About

Tayeba Batool is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation research focuses on the urban and political ecologies of Miyawaki urban forests in Islamabad, Pakistan, by examining the impacts and transformations of a transnational ecological method on local practices, politics, knowledges, and experiences of greening in a postcolonial planned city. She employs participant and institutional ethnography as well multi-modal methods and spatial mapping in her analysis of how the Miyawaki urban forests are discoursed and adapted towards urban climatic resilience, landscape management, or spatial affect and aesthetic. Her preliminary dissertation work piloted methods to study tree care and practices in arboretums and urban spaces, as well as how landscapes shape forest imaginaries, and was supported by the Humanities, Urbanism, and Design Initiative, and Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn. Tayeba holds a MA in International Affairs from American University, Washington DC. Her master's thesis investigated the politics of conservation, urban heritage, and community identity in the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan. Prior to her time at Penn, she worked on international development projects in Pakistan that facilitated institutional capacity building, gender equity in economic participation, and private-public sector collaboration.

Affiliated PhD Student

Jane Abell

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Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

About

Jane Lief Abell is a thirdyear doctoral student in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research explores Islam in the United States, with a particular focus on how race and religion inform relations among “native” and immigrant Muslim groups. Currently, she is working with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, an Arabic language and arts organization based in West Philly, and conducting fieldwork in Northeast Philadelphia. Prior to entering graduate school, Jane held several research and editorial positions at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University; Harvard Divinity School; the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; the Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights; and Law People Management, LLC. Jane holds a BA with High Honors in Sociology & Anthropology and Islamic Studies from Swarthmore College. 

Penn IUR Scholar

Elijah Anderson

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Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Yale University

About

Elijah Anderson is the Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale University. He is one of the leading urban ethnographers in the United States. His publications include Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City (1999), winner of the Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological Society; Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (1990), winner of the American Sociological Association’s Robert E. Park Award for the best published book in the area of Urban Sociology; and the classic sociological work, A Place on the Corner (1978; 2nd ed., 2003). Anderson’s most recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life, was published by WW Norton in 2011. Professor Anderson is the recipient of two prestigious awards from the American Sociological Association, the 2013 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award and the 2018 W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, as well as the 2017 Merit Award from the Eastern Sociological Society.

Dr. Anderson has served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is formerly a vice-president of the American Sociological Association. He has served in an editorial capacity for a wide range of professional journals and special publications, including Qualitative Sociology, Ethnography, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, City & Community, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He has also served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies, including the White House, the United States Congress, the National Academy of Science and the National Science Foundation. Additionally, he was a member of the National Research Council’s Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior.

Selected Publications

Anderson, Elijah, Dana Asbury, Duke W. Austin, Esther Chihye Kim, and Vani Kulkarni, eds. 2012. Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642 (June). Sage Press.

Anderson, Elijah. 2012. The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

Anderson, Elijah, ed. 2009. Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions and Its Future. Ethnography 10(4), Special Double Issue. Sage Press. 

Anderson, Elijah, ed. 2008. Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Anderson, Elijah, Scott N. Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones, eds. 2004. Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 595 (September). New York: Sage Press.

Faculty Fellow

Jere Behrman

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William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

About

Jere R. Behrman is W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences. A leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics with a focus on developing economies, Behrman has been Chair of Economics, Research Associate and Director of Penn’s Population Studies Center, Associate Director of the Lauder Institute, and Associate Director of Penn’s Population Aging Research Center, among other positions in the University. He has been an investigator on over 160 research projects, including 42 National Institutes of Health (NIH) and 14 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, and has published over 400 articles and 35 books. The unifying dimension of much of this research is to improve empirical knowledge of the determinants of and the impacts of human resources given unobserved factors such as innate health and ability, the functioning of various institutions such as households and imperfect markets, and information imperfections. 

Selected Publications

Behrman, Jere R., Susan W. Parker, Petra E. Todd, and Kenneth I. Wolpin. 2015. “Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools.” Journal of Political Economy 123(2): 325-64.

Richter, Linda M., Bernadette Daelmans, Joan Lombardi, Jody Heymann, Florencia Lopez Boo, Jere R. Behrman, Chunling Lu, Jane E. Lucas, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Tarun Dua, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Karin Stenberg, Paul Gertler, and Gary L. Darmstadt. “Investing in the Foundation of Sustainable Development: Pathways to Scale up for Early Childhood Development. 2017. “ The Lancet.

Allen, Franklin, Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, Shahrokh Fardoust, Dani Rodrik, Andrew Steer, and Arvind Subramanian. 2014. Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Global Citizens in the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Almedia, Rita, Jere Behrman, and David Robalino, editors. 2012. The Right Skills for the Job? Rethinking Effective Training Policies for Workers. Washington, DC: Social Protection, Human Development Network, World Bank. 

Penn IUR Scholar

Carolyn Chernoff

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Graduate Faculty, Moore College of Art and Design

About

Carolyn Chernoff is a Graduate Faculty at Moore College of Art and Design. She is an urban and cultural sociologist specializing in the role of culture in reproducing and transforming urban inequality. While a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, Chernoff received the 2013 Arnold Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Doctoral Student from the Graduate School of Education, the Dean’s Scholarship (GSE), and served as a 2012-2013 Graduate Fellow for Teaching Excellence at Penn’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Chernoff’s work focuses on cities, arts, and social change, particularly on the level of social interaction and the production of community. Her dissertation, “Imagining the City: Ritual and Conflict in the Urban Art Democracy,” is based on ethnographic research conducted over a period of eight years at three different community-arts organizations in a major Mid-Atlantic city. 

Selected Publications

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2015. “Black Faces, White Voices/White Faces, Black Voices: The implications of “race fail” for community-based arts education.” Visual Arts Research, 41(1): 96-110.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2014. “Of Women and Queens: Gender Realities and Re-Education in RuPaul’s Drag Empire.” In Jim Deams, ed., RuPaul’s Drag Race: Drag and Reality TV. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2013. “Spelling It Out: Difference and Diversity in Public Conversation.” Michigan Sociological Review, 27.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2013. “Conflict Theory in Education.” In Sociology of Education, James Ainsworth and Geoffrey J. Golson, eds. Sage Publications.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2013. “Waldorf Education.” In Sociology of Education, James Ainsworth and Geoffrey J. Golson, eds. Sage Publications.

Chernoff, Carolyn. 2010. Objectifying Measures: The Dominance of High-Stakes Testing and the Politics of Schooling – By Amanda Walker Johnson. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 41: 212–213.

Chernoff, Carolyn.  2009. On Culture, Art, and Experience. Perspectives on Urban Education (Penn GSE electronic journal), 6(2): 77-78.

Penn IUR Scholar

Daniel Aldana Cohen

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Director of the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative

Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California

About

Daniel Aldana Cohen is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, where he directs the Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2, and co-directs the climate + community project. He is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal (Verso 2019), which received glowing reviews in The New York Review of BooksForeign Policy, the Los Angeles Review of BooksScience for the People, and elsewhere. He works on the politics of climate change, investigating the intersections of climate change, housing, political economy, social movements, and inequalities of race and class in the United States and Brazil. As Director of (SC)2, he is leading qualitative and quantitative research projects on Whole Community Climate Mapping, green political economy, and eco-apartheid. In 2018-19, he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He was also co-founder and co-PI of the Superstorm Research Lab, in New York City. 

Selected Publications

Wachsmuth, David, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Hillary Angelo. 2016. “Expand the frontiers of urban sustainability: Social equity and global impacts are missing from measures of cities’ environments friendliness.” Nature 536(7618): 391-393.

Cohen, Daniel Aldana. 2016. “The Rationed City: The politics of water, housing, and land use in drought-parched São Paulo.” Public Culture 28(2): 261-289.

Penn IUR Scholar

Stefanie DeLuca

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James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

About

Stefanie DeLuca is the James Coleman Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Social Policy Program and the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab. Her research uses sociological perspectives to inform education and housing policy. She has conducted mixed-methods studies that incorporate qualitative research into experimental or quasi-experimental designs. Some of her work focuses on the long-term effects of programs to help low-income families relocate to safer neighborhoods and better schools through housing vouchers. Based on some of this work with young adults in the Baltimore site of the Moving to Opportunity program, Dr. DeLuca wrote a book, Coming of Age in the Other America (with Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin), which was named an Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association, and won the William F. Goode Award from the American Sociological Association. She has also been awarded a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Fellowship and a William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Award. Her work has been funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Spencer Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Abell Foundation, National Academy of Education, Gates Foundation and the Department of Education.

Dr. DeLuca contributes frequently to national and local media, including the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Governing, and National Public Radio. She currently serves on a Federal Research Advisory Commission at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and was recently named Scholar of the Year by the National Alliance of Resident Services in Assisted and Affordable Housing. She has been invited to share her research to support policy recommendations at the federal level at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and has provided briefings and testimony for several state legislatures and in federal court on behalf of the plaintiffs in the Baltimore Thompson v. HUD housing desegregation case. She has presented her work as part of an exhibit at the National Museum of American History, and has received the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Excellence in Teaching Award.

Selected Publications

DeLuca, Stefanie and Peter Rosenblatt. 2017. “Walking Away From The Wire Housing Mobility and Neighborhood Opportunity in Baltimore.” Housing Policy Debate 27: 519-546.

Boyd, Melody L. and Stefanie DeLuca. 2017. “Fieldwork with In-Depth Interviews: How to Get Strangers in the City to Tell You Their Stories.” In Michael J. Oakes and Jay Kaufman (Eds.), Methods In Social Epidemiology (Wiley/Jossey-Bass).

DeLuca, Stefanie, Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Kathryn Edin. 2016. Coming of Age in the Other America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Holland, Megan and Stefanie DeLuca. 2016. “Why Wait Years to Become Something_Low Income African American Youth and the Costly Search for Careers in For-Profit Programs” Sociology of Education 89: 261-278.

Rosenblatt, Peter and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “What Happened in Sandtown-Winchester_Understanding the Impacts of a Comprehensive Community Initiative.” Urban Affairs Review 1-32.

Condliffe, Barbara, Melody Boyd and Stefanie DeLuca. 2015. “Stuck in School_How School Choice Policies Interact with Social Context to Shape Inner City Students.” Teachers College Record 117: 1-36.

Penn IUR Scholar

Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores

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Associate Professor, Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University

About

Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. She was previously the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow on Race, Crime, and Justice at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. Dinzey-Flores has a number of research interests including urban and community sociology, urban planning, race and ethnicity, space and place, qualitative and quantitative methods, social policy, and Latin America and Caribbean Studies. Dinzey-Flores has published articles on public housing policy and design in Puerto Rico, race and class segregation and inequality in Puerto Rico, reggaetón music and culture as an urban phenomenon, and what it means to acknowledge Latinos in the urban intellectual history of the United States. Her recent book, Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) looks at questions of race and class inequality as they are recreated and contained in the physical built environment.

 

Selected Publications

Dinzey-Flores, Zaire Zenit. 2013. Locked In, Locked Out. 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.

Faculty Fellow

Kathleen Hall

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Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology

Chair, Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division

About

Kathleen Hall is Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology in the Education, Culture, and Society Division and Chair of the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division in the Graduate School of Education with a secondary appointment in the Department of Anthropology. She is a member of the graduate groups in Sociology, Folklore, Social Policy & Practice, and South Asia Studies and is affiliated with the Urban Studies and Asian American Studies programs. She received the Michael Katz Excellence in Teaching Award in the Urban Studies Program in 2001 and the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D Teaching and Mentoring in 2009. Her research and publications focus on immigration, citizenship, racial and class inequality, and national incorporation in the United Kingdom and the United States; the politics of knowledge in public sector policy and governance; risk management, human rights, and anti-terrorism law in the United Kingdom; and concepts of “global citizenship” and related efforts to “internationalize” K-16 education in the U.S. and the U.K. Before joining the GSE faculty in 1995, Hall was a postdoctoral Fellow at Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, where she conducted research on community-based poverty initiatives. 

Selected Publications

Stambach, Amy and Kathleen D. Hall, eds. 2017. Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures: Youth and the Politics of Possibility. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hall, K. D. 2012. “Security and the Risk Management State: British Anti-Terrorism Policies After 7/7.” In Politics, Publics, Personhood: New Ethnographies at the Limits of Neoliberalism, edited by C. Greenhouse. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 

Hall, K. D. 2009. British Sikh Lives Lived in Translation. Everyday Life in South Asia, 2nd Edition. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

McDermott, R., and K.D. Hall. 2007. “Scientifically Debased Research on Learning, 1854-2006.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly 38(11): 82-88.

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

Christian Krohn-Hansen

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Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

About

Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo in Norway. Krohn-Hansen is currently the department’s Vice Chair and Head of the doctoral program. He also is a member of the steering committee of the interdisciplinary research area Livelihoods in Developing Countries (LEVE) at the university and a member of the advisory board of Ethnos. Krohn-Hansen’s research interests include the anthropology of politics, economic anthropology, urban ethnography, and regional and international migration and span the Caribbean, Latin America, and New York. He has performed long-term fieldwork in the southwestern Dominican Republic in close proximity to the border with Haiti, and in northeastern Colombia. 

Selected Publications

Krohn-Hansen, Christian. 2015. “Political Anthropology.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd Edition), James D. Wright, ed. Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.

Krohn-Hansen, Christian. 2013. Making New York Dominican: Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Krohn-Hansen, Christian. 2007. “The Understanding of Migration and the Discourse of Nationalism: Dominicans in New York City.” In Holding Worlds Together: Ethnographies of Knowing and Belonging, 77-102, Marianne Lien and Marit Melhuus, eds.. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

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