People
Core Faculty
Neil Brenner
Critical urban theory; urban political economy; cities and globalization; comparative urban and regional development.
Betts Brown
Internships; experiential education; urban policy.
Harvey Molotch
Political economy; urban ethnography; nature and design
Anne Rademacher
The intersection of natural and social processes in cities; the political and cultural dimensions of urban sustainability; cities in the developing world.
Daniel Walkowitz
American social history; labor history; public history; film and history
Caitlin Zaloom
Social theory; cities and globalization; financial markets; technology and cities
Other key faculty within SCA
Arlene Davila (American Studies)
Race and ethnicity; nationalism; media studies; political economy, globalization; the politics of museum and visual representation; urban studies; consumption; Latinos in the U.S.
Andrew Ross (American Studies)
Labor and work; urban and suburban studies; intellectual history; social and political theory; science; ecology and technology; cultural studies
Sukhdev Sandhu (Asian/Pacific/American Studies)
Toil; avant pulp; off-kilter Englishness; popular and techno cultures; metropolitan and immigrant history; cinema studies; black and Asian literatures; poetics and sociology of sport
Lok Siu (Asian/Pacific/American Studies)
Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, cultural citizenship, race and gender, Chinese diaspora, Central America and Panama, Asians in the Americas
John Tchen (Asian/Pacific/American Studies)
Interethnic and interracial relations of Asian and Americans
Affiliated Faculty within NYU
Thomas Bender (History)
Mosette Broderick (Fine Arts)
19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism
Marion Casey (Ireland Center)
Robert Cohen (Steinhardt School of Education)
20th century German literature; Weimar modernism and avant garde; literary representations of the Holocaust; Marxist literary theory; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Weiss
Dalton Conley (Sociology)
Stratification/mobility; race; urban sociology; social policy; health and society
Ruth Horowitz (Sociology)
Social control; deviance; juvenile delinquency; urban communities; field research methods
Eric Klinenberg (Sociology)
Urban studies; media and cultural production; disaster and social violence; race; theory
Mitchell Moss (Wagner Graduate School of Public Service)
Urban government and politics, telecommunications and economic development, and the future of urban regions
Robin Nagle (Draper)
Rene Francisco Poitevin (Gallatin School)
Xudong Zhang (Comparative Literature/East Asian Studies)
Literary theory and aesthetics; political and philosophical discourses on modernity; twentieth-century Chinese literature, film, and intellectual movements
Adjunct Faculty (Fall 2006-present)
Eric Brettschneider, Executive Director, Agenda for Children Tomorrow
Douglas Lasdon, Executive Director, Urban Justice Center
Samantha MacBride
Steve Silberblatt, Supervising Attorney, Legal Aid Society Queens Criminal Practice
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