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Sociology Faculty

Title
- Professor and Chair
Division Social Sciences Division
Department
- Sociology Department
Phone
831-459-3516 (msg)
Email
- miriam@ucsc.edu
Website
Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 208
Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
Faculty Areas of Expertise Sociology, Urban studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies
Courses SOCY 105A Classical Sociological Theory; SOCY 177 Urban Sociology; SOCY 177E Eco-Metropolis; SOCY 260 Culture, Knowledge, Power; SOCY 201 The Making of Classical Theory

Research Interests

Urban sociology, geography, urban environmental studies, urban political ecology, disaster and crisis, sustainability studies, housing, media and cultural studies, social movements, social theory, and the social, cultural, and environmental history of New York City, Buenos Aires, and California.

Selected Publications

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.