CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Kevin Fox Gotham, Ph.D

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

 

            Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

            School of Liberal Arts (SLA)

Tulane University

102 Newcomb Hall

New Orleans, LA  70118

Phone: (504) 862-3004                                              

Fax: (504) 865-5224

Email: kgotham@tulane.edu 

School of Liberal Arts Website: www.liberalarts.tulane.edu

 

Professor of Sociology                                               

Tulane University                                                       

220 Newcomb Hall    

New Orleans, LA  70118

Fax: (504) 865-5544

 

Personal Website: http://www.tulane.edu/~kgotham/gotham.html

                                                                                                                                               

 

EDUCATIONAL RECORD

 

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kansas, 1997.

M.A., Sociology, University of Kansas, 1992.

B.A., Sociology, University of Kansas, 1990.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

                                                                                                           

2008-present               Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

School of Liberal Arts (SLA), Tulane University

 

2008-present               Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

 

2006-2008                   Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF)

                                    Sociology, Political Science, and Law and Social Science (LSS) Programs

 

            2003-2008                   Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

 

            2004                            Visiting Professor, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France

 

            1997-2003                   Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

 

            2002-2003                   Adjunct Professor of the College of Urban and Public Affairs, University of New Orleans

 

 

AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALTY

 

Urban Sociology

Social Theory

Sociology of Culture

Comparative-Historical Sociology

Race and Ethnicity

Political Sociology

Economic Sociology

            Sociology of Law

Stratification and Inequality

            Social Policy

 

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Books:

 

Crisis Cities: Disaster and Rebuilding in New York and New Orleans. Draft Proposal. Co-authored with Miriam Greenberg. 

 

Papers:

 

“The Last U.S. World’s Fair: The 1984 Louisiana Exposition and the Contradictions of Mega-Events.” Draft Manuscript.  Under review at Urban Studies.

 

“Make It Right? Brad Pitt, Post-Katrina Rebuilding, and the Spectacularization of Disaster.” Draft Manuscript. 

 

“Katrina is Coming to Your City: Urban Disasters and the Limitations of U.S. Social Policy.” Draft Manuscript. 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Books:

 

 

Authentic New Orleans: Race, Culture, and Tourism in the Big Easy.  New York University (NYU) Press. 2007.

·         Honorable Mention for the Robert Park Outstanding Book Award, American Sociological Association Section on Community and Urban Sociology (2008)

 

Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2000. Albany, NY: State University of New York (SUNY) Press. 2002.

 

 

Edited Volume:

 

Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press.  2001.

 

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

 

“Creating Liquidity Out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Evolving Subprime Mortgage Crisis.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. June 2009. 33:2.

 

“From 9/11 to 8/29: Post-Disaster Recovery and Rebuilding in New York and New Orleans.” (Co-authored with Miriam Greenberg).  Social Forces. 87(2): 1037-62. December 2008.

 

“From Culture Industry to the Society of the Spectacle: Critical Theory and the Situationist International.” (Co-authored with Dan Krier). No Social Science Without Critical Theory. Edited by Harry Dahms. Current Perspectives in Social Theory. 2008. Vol. 25. 

 

“Selling New Orleans To New Orleans: Tourism Authenticity and the Construction of Community Identity.” Tourist Studies. 7(3): 317-339. 2007.

 

“Destination New Orleans: Commodification, Rationalization, and the Rise of Urban Tourism.” Journal of Consumer Culture. 7(3). November 2007.

 

“Fast Spectacle: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina and the Contradictions of Spectacle.”  Fast Capitalism. 2(2). Fall 2007.

 

“(Re)Branding the Big Easy: Tourism Rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans.” Urban Affairs Review. 42(6): 823-850. July 2007.

 

“Critical Theory and Katrina: Disaster, Spectacle, and Immanent Critique.” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 11(1): 81-99. April 2007.

 

“The Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered:  Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.” American Journal of Sociology.  112(1): 231-75. July 2006.

·         Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Jane Addams Award for best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the past two years (2008).

 

“HOPE VI, Section 8, and the Contradictions of Low-Income Housing Policy” (with Jessica Pardee). Journal of Poverty. 5(2). 2005.

 

“Tourism From Above and Below: Globalization, Localization, and New Orleans’s Mardi Gras.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29(2).  June 2005.

 

“Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans’s Vieux Carre (French Quarter).” Urban Studies. 42(7): 1099-1121. June 2005.

 

“Theorizing Urban Spectacles: Festivals, Tourism, and the Transformation of Urban Space.” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 9(2). July 2005.

 

“Framing the Urban: Struggles over HOPE VI and New Urbanism in a Historic City.” James Elliott, Kevin Fox Gotham, and Melinda Milligan. City and Community. 3(4): 373-99.  December 2004.

 

“HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and the Utility of Frames: Reply to Melendez and Coats.” Melinda J. Milligan, Kevin Fox Gotham, and James R. Elliott. City and Community. 3(4): 403-422. December 2004.

 

“Toward an Understanding of the Spatiality of Urban Poverty: The Urban Poor as Spatial Actors.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 27(3): 723-37. Sept. 2003.

 

“Missed Opportunities, Enduring Legacies: School Segregation and Desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri.” American Studies. 43 (2): 5-41. Summer 2002.

·         Mid-America American Studies Association Stone Suderman Award for Outstanding Article of the Year, 2002.

 

“Using Space: Agency and Identity in a Public Housing Development” (with Krista Brumley). City and Community. 1(3): 267-89. Fall 2002.

 

“Marketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Tourism in New Orleans.” Urban Studies. 39(10): 1735-56. September 2002.

·         Reprinted in Event Tourism: Critical Concepts in Tourism, edited by Stephen Page and Joanne Connell. Routledge. December 2009.

 

“Beyond Invasion and Succession: School Segregation, Real Estate Blockbusting, and the Political Economy of Neighborhood Racial Transition.” City and Community. 1(1): 83-111. Winter 2002.

 

“Urban Sociology and the Postmodern Challenge.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 26 (1 & 2): 57-79. 2001.

 

“A City Without Slums: Urban Renewal, Public Housing, and Downtown Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 60(1): 285-316. January 2001 (also reprinted in City and Country. Edited by Laurence S. Moss. 2001. Blackwell (pp. 285-316)).

 

“Growth Machine Up-Links: Urban Renewal and the Rise and Fall of a Pro-Growth Coalition in a U.S. City.” Critical Sociology. 26(3): 268-300. 2000.

 

“Urban Space, Restrictive Covenants, and the Origin of Racial Residential Segregation in a U.S. City, 1900-1950.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 24(3): 616-33. September 2000.

 

“Racialization and the State: The Housing Act of 1934 and the Origins of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).” Sociological Perspectives. 43(2): 291-316. Summer 2000.

 

“Separate And Unequal: The Housing Act of 1968 and HUD’s Section 235 Program.” Sociological Forum. 15(1): 13-37. March 2000.

 

“Political Opportunity, Community Identity, and the Emergence of a Local Anti-Expressway Movement.” Social Problems. 46(3): 332-54. August 1999.

 

“Suburbia Under Siege: Low-Income Housing and Racial Conflict in Metropolitan in Kansas City, 1970-1990.” Sociological Spectrum. 18(4): 449-83. 1998. 

 

“Race, Mortgage Lending, and Loan Rejections in a U.S. City.” Sociological Focus. 31(4): 391-405. October 1998.

 

            “Blind Faith in the Free Market: Urban Poverty, Residential Segregation, and Federal Housing Retrenchment, 1970-1995.” Sociological Inquiry. 68(1): 1-31. Winter 1998.

 

“Narrative Analysis and the New Historical Sociology” (with William G. Staples).  Sociological Quarterly.  37(3): 481-501. Summer 1996.

 

“Ironies of Oversight: State Power, Democratic Legitimacy, and the Creation of Congressional Intelligence Committees.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology. 39: 33-65. 1995.

 

“Domestic Security for the American State: The FBI, Covert Repression, and Democratic Legitimacy.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology. 22 (2): 203-222. Winter 1994

(Also reprinted in Troubled Times: Readings in Social Problems. 2000. First Edition. Edited by Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer. Roxbury Publishing Company). 

 

“A Study in American Agitation: J. Edgar Hoover's Symbolic Construction of the Communist Menace.” Mid-American Review of Sociology. 16(2): 57-70. 1992.      

 

 

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

 

“Housing Policy, the Low Income Housing Crisis, and the Problem of Homelessness” (with James D. Wright and Amy M. Donley). Robert McNamara, editor, Homelessness in America. Volume 2. New York: Greenwood Publishing. 2008 .

 

“Contrasts of Carnival: Mardi Gras Between the Modern and Postmodern.” Illuminating Social Life (4th edition). Edited by Peter Kivisto. Pine Forge Press. 2007.

 

“Ethnic Heritage Tourism and Global-Local Connections in New Orleans.” Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City. Edited by Jan Rath. 2007. Routledge.

 

“Neoliberal Revitalization: Prison Building, Casinos, and Tourism in Louisiana” (with Jeannie Haubert). Chapter 1 in Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context. Edited by Tim Gibson and Mark Lowes. Rowman and Littlefield. 2006.

 

“Urban Redevelopment, Past and Present.” Pp. 1-31 in Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press. 2001.

 

“Urban Redevelopment For Whom and For What Purpose? A Research Agenda for the Twentieth First Century.” Pp. 429-52 in Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press.  2001

 

“Abstract Space, Social Space, and the Redevelopment of Public Housing” (with Jon Shefner and Krista Brumley). Pp. 313-35 in Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology. Kevin Fox Gotham, Guest Editor. Elsevier Press. 2001.

 

“Residential Segregation and Federal Housing Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Section 235 and Section 8.” Pp. 295-308 in Multiculturalism in the United States: Current Issues, Contemporary Voices. Edited by Peter Kivisto and Georganne Rundblad. Pine Forge Press. 2000.

 

“Housing Policy” (with James D. Wright). Pp. 237-55 in Handbook of Social Policy. Edited by James Midgley, Michelle Livermore, and Martin B. Tracy. 2000. Sage Publications.  (New edition and update forthcoming in 2008). 

 

“Representations of Space and Urban Planning in a Post-World War II U.S. City.” Pp. 155-80 in Constructions of Urban Space. Volume Five of Research in Urban Sociology. Edited by Ray Hutchison. 2000.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuilding, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Edited by Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2009. 312pp. $32.00, paper. ISBN: 0-8133-4385-2.  Contemporary Sociology. Forthcoming. 

 

Fragile Rights Within Cities: Government, Housing, and Fairness.  Edited by John Goering. Lanham, Maryland. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2007. Pp. iX-299.  American Journal of Sociology.  March 2008. Vol. 113: 5. 

 

Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945.  By Anthony J. Stanonis. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2006. Urban History. 33: 527-528. December 2006.

 

“Racialized Uneven Development: Race, Class, and Segregation in the Postwar Era.” Review Essay for Journal of Urban History. January 2007. Volume 33, Number 2, pp. 1-10. Books reviewed: Lawrence Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan, Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003; Setha Low, Behind the Gates: Life Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America. New York: Routledge, 2003; Monique M. Taylor, Harlem: Between Heaven and Hell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002; Walther Thabit, How East New York Became a Ghetto. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

 

Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums. By Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.  American Journal of Sociology.  November 2005. Pp. 958-59.

 

Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood, by Maria Kefalas. Berkeley: University of California Press,  2003. Pp. Xiv+203.$49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). American Journal of Sociology. March 2004. Vol. 109, No. 5.

 

Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order, by David Ranney. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 2003, 262 pp. $69.50 (cloth). Work and Occupations. Feb. 2004.

 

The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis. By Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. American Studies.  43(2). Summer 2002.

 

Come Lovely and Soothing Death: The Right to Die Movement in the United States. By Elaine Fox, Jeffrey J. Kamakahi, and Stella M. Capek (New York: Twayne Publishers).  Contemporary Sociology. November 2001. 30(6): 631-2.

 

The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in Chicago. By Susan J. Popkin, Victoria E. Gwiasda, Lynn M. Olson, Dennis P. Rosenbaum, and Larry Buron (New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2000).  Housing, Theory, and Society. 18(3&4).

 

Empowerment in Chicago: Grassroots Participation in Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation. Edited by Cedric Herring, Michael Bennett, Doug Gills, and Noah Temaner Jenkins (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1998).  Contemporary Sociology. November 1999. 28(6): 719-21.

 

Racism and Society. By John Solomos and Les Back (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996). Social Thought and Research. 20(1&2): 204-07.

 

Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty. By Jill Quadagno (Oxford University Press, 1994). Sociological Inquiry. 66(2): 221-223. Spring 1996.

 

 

Other Publications

 

"Tourism and Culture."  Forthcoming in Sociology of Culture: A Handbook. Edited by John Hall, Ming-Cheng Lo, and Laura Grindstaff.  Routlege. 2009. 

 

"World's Fairs (International Expositions).  Forthcoming in the Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by Michael Ryan and George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2009.

 

"Disaster Tourism." Forthcoming in the Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by Michael Ryan and George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2009.

 

“New Urban Sociology.” Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Edited by Ray Hutchison. Sage Publications.

 

“Urban Theory.” Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Edited by Ray Hutchison. Sage Publications.

 

Review of “Still Waiting: Life After Katrina,” a documentary produced by Kate Browne and Ginny Martin. Contexts.  Winter 2009.

 

“Megalopolis.” Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2007.

 

“Urban Revolution.” Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2007.

 

Kansas City, MissouriEncyclopedia of American Urban History. Edited by David Goldfield. Sage Publications. 2006.

 

“Lewis Mumford.” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Edited by Jean Van Delinder and Dan Krier. Thoemmes Press. 2005.

 

“Toward a Critical Theory of Tourism.” From the Left. The Newsletter of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association. 26(1): 3, 13-14. Summer 2005.

 

“Civil Society.” Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Edited by George Ritzer. Sage Publications. 2004.

 

“The State.” Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Edited by George Ritzer. Sage Publications. 2004.

 

“Space and Social Theory.” Perspectives. The Newsletter of the Section on Sociological Theory of the American Sociological Association. 25(2). April 2002.

 

 

GRANTS AND FUNDED RESEARCH

 

2009-2011. National Science Foundation, Urban Long-term Research Area (ULTRA) Exploratory Award, "Reconsidering the New Normal: The Impact of Trauma on Urban Ecological and Social Diversity." Principle Investigator. $300,000. 

 

2003. Principle Investigator. “Native- and Foreign-Born Migration to Southern Metro Areas: Their Connection and Consequences for Changing Residential Segregation and Community Stability.” Grant submitted to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).  $40,000. Co-authored with James Elliott and Timothy Brezina. Not funded.

 

2003. Tulane Senate Committee on Research. Summer Fellowship. $4000.

 

2001-2002. Georges Lurcy Faculty Research Fund. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Center for Scholars. $1000.

 

2001. Tulane University. Service Learning Grant. $400.

 

2000. Tulane University. Service Learning Grant. $400.

 

2000. Smith Richardson Foundation. Domestic Public Policy Program. Junior Faculty Research Grant Program. “The Redevelopment of Public Housing in New Orleans.” $60,000. Not Funded.

 

1999. Tulane University. Service Learning Grant. $400.

 

1996. Midwest Sociological Society Research Grant. $600.

 

1994. Poverty Race and Research Action Council (PRRAC). Research Grant. “Constructing the Segregated City: Socio-spatial Restructuring and Racial Change in Metropolitan Kansas City, 1940-present.” $10,000.  Not Funded.

 

 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

 

“From 9/11 to 8/29: Post-Disaster Recovery and Rebuilding in New York and New Orleans.”  With Miriam Greenberg.  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. August 2008.

 

“The Last U.S. World’s Fair: The 1984 Louisiana Exposition and the Re-Imaging of New Orleans.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. St, Louis, MO.  March 2008.

 

“Housing Policy, the Low Income Housing Crisis, and the Problem of Homelessness” (with James D. Wright and Amy Donley). Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. March 2008.

 

“Tourism Gentrification and the Rebuilding of New Orleans.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. March 2007.

 

“Critical Theory and Katrina: Disaster, Spectacle, and Immanent Critique.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Quebec. August 2006.

 

“Re(Branding) the Big Easy: Authenticity and Tourism Rebuilding in New Orleans.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Quebec. August 2006.

 

“Critical Theory, Hurricane Katrina, and Disaster as Spectacle.”  Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Omaha, NE.  April 2006.

 

“Katrina is Coming to Your City: Urban Disasters and the Limitations of U.S. Social Policy.”  Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting.  New Orleans, LA.  March 2006. 

 

“Creating Liquidity Out of Spatial Fixity: Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.  Philadelphia, PA. August 2005.

 

“Theorizing Urban Spectacles: Festivals, Tourism, and the Transformation of Urban Space.”  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.  Philadelphia, PA. August 2005.

 

“The Contradictions of Commercial Festivals and Tourism in New Orleans.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005.

 

“Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans’s Vieux Carre (French Quarter).” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005.

 

“Tourism From Above and Below: Globalization, Localization, and New Orleans’s Mardi Gras.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2004.

 

“From the Culture Industry to the Society of the Spectacle: Theoretical Affinities of the Frankfurt School and the Situationist International” (co-authored with Dan Krier). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2004.

 

“Heritage Tourism in New Orleans.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Kansas City, Missouri. April 2004.

 

“Ethnic Heritage Tourism and Global-Local Connections in New Orleans.” Paper presented at “The Immigrant Tourist Industry: A European Science Foundation (ESF) Exploratory Workshop on the Commodification of Cultural Resources in Cosmopolitan Cities.”  University of Amsterdam, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; December 7-9, 2003.

 

“Neoliberal Gentrification: Tourism and the Socio-Spatial Transformation of New Orleans’ French Quarter.” (With Jay Arena).  American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 2003.

 

“The Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered:  Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 2003.

 

“Urban Visions: HOPE VI, New Urbanism, and Cities as Objects of Collective Action.” James Elliott, Kevin Fox Gotham, and Melinda Milligan. Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 2003.

 

“Theorizing Carnival: Producing, Regulating, and Consuming Mardi Gras.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 2003.

 

“Globalization and the Restructuring of Housing Finance in the United States.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. August 2002.

 

“Disinvestment, Reinvestment, and the Changing Structure of Housing Finance.” Presentation at the Department of Urban Planning and Design. Jackson State University. Jackson, MS. April 19, 2002.

 

“Mardi Gras in New Orleans: From the Commercialization of Carnival to the Carnivalization of Commerce.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Milwaukee, WI. April 2002.

 

“Marketing Mardi Gras: Commodification, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Tourism in New Orleans.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting. St. Louis, MO. April 2001.

 

“Using Space: Agency and Identity in a Public Housing Development” (with Krista Brumley). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. August 2000.

 

“Urban Space, Restrictive Covenants, and the Origin of Racial Residential Segregation in a U.S. City, 1900-1950.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. August 2000; also presented at the College of Urban and Regional Planning. University of New Orleans.  New Orleans, LA. December 8, 1999. Moderated by Mickey Lauria.

 

“Growth Politics and Urban Renewal in a U.S. City.” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.  April 22, 2000.

 

“Representations of Space and Urban Planning in a Post-World War II City.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 1999.

 

“Separate And Unequal: The Housing Act of 1968 and HUD’s Section 235 Program.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 1998.

 

“Residential Solidarity and the Defended Neighborhood: Kansas City’s South Midtown Freeway (the Bruce R. Watkins Drive) and the Social Construction of Place.”  Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri. April 1998.

 

“The Racial Construction of American Suburbs: School and Housing Segregation and Desegregation in Metropolitan Kansas City, 1968-present.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 1997.

 

“A City Without Slums: Urban Planning and Revitalization in Kansas City, Missouri, 1941-1952.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri. October 1996.

 

“Suburbia Under Siege: Low-Income Housing and Racial Conflict in Metropolitan Kansas City, 1970-1990.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, August 1996.

 

“Building the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, 1950-1970.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago IL. April 3-6, 1996; Also presented at the Department of Sociology. University of Missouri-Kansas City. April 19, 1996.

 

“Recent Developments in Socio-historical Inquiry: Social Theory, Narrative, and the Convergence of Social History and Historical Sociology” (with William G. Staples).  Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 1995.

 

“White Backlash: Conservative Resurgence and American Social Policy in the Post-Civil Rights Era.”  Mid-American American Studies Annual Meeting, Lawrence, KS, April 1994.

 

“Welfare State Retrenchment, Crime Control, and Surveillance: Capitalist Restructuring and State Change in the Transition to Post-Fordism, the U.S. Case.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 1994.

 

“State Legitimacy and the Creation of Congressional Intelligence Committees.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 1993.

 

“The FBI's Domestic Counterintelligence Programs: The Autonomous Formation of United States Internal Security Policy, 1956-1971.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, April 1992.

 

 

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

 

“Writing a Successful Grant Proposal.” Workshop for faculty and graduate students of the School of Liberal Arts. Tulane University. November 3, 2008; 3:00-4:30; and November 4, 10:00-11:30. 203 Stibbs, LBC.

 

“Tourism Development and the Transformation of the French Quarter.” Presentation for the Center for Public Service. Tulane University. September 10, 2008.

 

“Writing a Successful Grant Proposal.” National Science Foundation (NSF) Outreach Presentation at the following meetings in 2006, 2007, and 2008:

·         American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal (2006), New York (2007), and Boston (2008)

·         Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Omaha (2006), Chicago (2007), and St. Louis (2008)

·         Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (2007) and New York (2008)

·         Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta (2007) and Richmond (2008)

·         Southern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans (2007).

·         Mid-South Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Lafayette, LA (2006).

 

“Residential Segregation in Kansas City: Origins, Development, and Consequences.” Presentation at Rockhurst College. October 16, 2007. 

 

“Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Just City.” Presentation at the Center on Metropolitan Studies.” Berlin, Germany. May 24, 2006.

 

“Katrina is Coming to Your City: Urban Disasters and the Limitations of U.S. Social Policy.”  Presentation at Augustana College. Sioux Falls, SD.  November 2005.

 

“Unintended Consequences: Did Kansas City’s Housing Policies Create an Urban Ghetto?”  Urban Speakers Series.  University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC).  November 9, 2005.

 

Vitae Building for Success: Qualities and Components of an Impressive Vitae.”  Presentation at the Annual Sociology Graduate Student Workshop. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. February 12, 2005.

 

“Race and Urban Policy in the United States.”  Presentation at the L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 8, 2004.

 

“Rethinking Globalization: Sources of Debate in U.S. Scholarship on Global Social Change.” Presentation at the L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 15, 2004.

 

“Tourism from Above and Below: Globalization, Localization, and New Orleans’s Mardi Gras.”  Presentation at the L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 19, 2004.

 

“The Influence of French Marxism in U.S. Urban Sociology.”  Presentation at the L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France. November 22, 2004.

 

“Policies and Practices of Whiteness.” Presentation at Legacies and Unfinished Business of Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka.” March 14-17, 2004. University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas.

 

“Building the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City.” Presentation before Kansas City Harmony. March 17, 2004.

 

“From Abstraction to Clarification: Diverse Uses of Theory in Sociological Writing.”  Presentation at the Annual Sociology Graduate Student Workshop. Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. January 24, 2004.

 

“Why is Troost Avenue Still a Racial Dividing Line?” Presentation at Johnson County Community College. Johnson County, KS.  October 28, 2003.

 

“Race as a Social Organizing Principle: Racial Residential Segregation in Kansas City.” Presentation at the annual “Dinner and Dialogue” Program. October 28, 2003. Sponsored by Kansas City Harmony. Embassy Suites Hotel, Country Club Plaza. Kansas City, Missouri.

 

 

SESSION ORGANIZER

 

Organizer and Presider. “Carnivals, Spectacles, and Festivals: Critical Theory Today.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2008, St. Louis, MO.

 

Organizer and Presider. American Sociological Association (ASA) Professional Workshop: Writing a Successful Grant Proposal (part of the Research Support Forum). American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. 2007. New York, NY.  

 

Organizer and Presider.  National Science Foundation (NSF) Outreach Sessions at the following meetings in 2006, 2007, and 2008:

·         American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal (2006), New York (2007), and Boston (2008)

·         Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Omaha (2006), Chicago (2007), and St. Louis (2008)

·         Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (2007) and New York (2008)

·         Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta (2007) and Richmond (2008)

·         Southern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans (2007).

·         Mid-South Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Lafayette, LA (2006).

 

Discussant. “Race and Place.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. March 2007, Philadelphia, PA. 

 

Presider. “Travel and Tourism.” American Sociological Association Meeting. August 2006, Montreal, Quebec.

 

Organizer. “Urban Sociology: Globalization, Localization, and Gentrification.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2005, Minneapolis, MN.

 

Organizer. “Urban Sociology: Place, Identity, and Contested Spaces.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2005, Minneapolis, MN.

 

Organizer. “Carnivalization of the World.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2004, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Organizer (with Joe Tamura). “Local Agency and Global Forces.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2004, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Organizer. Urban Sociology Sessions. Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 2002, Milwaukee, WI.

 

Organizer (with Philip Olson), “Kansas City Urban Tour.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 1998, Kansas City, MO.

 

Organizer and Presider, “Racial Inequality.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 1996, Des Moines, IA.      

 

Organizer and Presider (with William J. Swart), “Social Movements and the State.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, April 1996, Chicago, IL.

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

Soc. 160. Social Problems and American Values (Fall 1992). University of Kansas.

 

Soc. 206. Urban Sociology (Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002). Tulane University.

 

Soc. 322. Social Theory (Fall 1997, Fall 1998, Spring 1998, Fall 1999, Spring 1999, Fall 2000, Spring 2000, Fall 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2004, Spring 2005). Tulane University.

 

Soc. 630. Urban Policy and Planning (Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2005). Tulane University.

 

Soc. 619. Urban Organization (Fall 1998, Spring 1998, Spring 2000). Tulane University.

 

Soc. 710. Intermediate Social Theory (Fall 2003; Fall 2004). Tulane University.

 

Colq-102-03 / Colq-203-03. Urban Village Colloquium (Spring 2000). Tulane University.

 

 

UNIVERSITY / FACULTY / DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE SERVICE

 

University Committee Service

 

Member, Tulane University, NEH Summer Stipend Evaluation Committee, 2009. 

 

Member, School of Social Work Retention, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Committee, 2009 (Charles Figley, Chair).

 

Voting Member, Social/Behavioral IRB in the Social Sciences (Sociology), December 2008-present. 

 

Co-Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, School of Liberal Arts (SLA), 2008-2009.

 

Chair, Teaching/Learning Subcommittee of the School of Liberal Arts (SLA), Strategic Planning Committee, 2008-2009.

 

Chair, Faculty Issues Subcommittee of the School of Liberal Arts (SLA), Strategic Planning Committee, 2008-2009.

 

Ex Officio Member, Curriculum Committee, School of Liberal Arts (SLA), Tulane University, 2008-present.

 

Ex Officio Member, Committee on Undergraduate Academic Requirements (CUAR), School of Liberal Arts (SLA), Tulane University, 2008-present.

 

Member, Advisory Board of the Center for Research-Education Activities at Tulane (CREATe), 2008-present.

 

Faculty Participant and Discussion Leader. 2004 Reading Project. James McBride’s

Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother. Penguin Press, New York.

 

Faculty Member. Committee of Committees of the University Senate, Senate Committee on Research (Summer Grants). Tulane University. 2003-2005.

 

Faculty Participant. Faculty Fellow Seminar: Service Learning - Classroom Without Walls. Spring 2003. Moderated by Barbara Moely, Psychology. 

 

Faculty Member. Graduate School Curriculum Committee. Tulane University. 2002-2005.

 

Faculty Member. Senate Committee on Information Technology. Tulane University. 2002-2005.

 

Faculty Member. Senate Committee on Computers. Tulane University. 2001-2002.

 

Faculty Member. Tulane College Honor Board. Tulane University. 2001-2004.

 

Faculty Participant, Urban Village Living-Learning Community. Tulane University. 1999.

 

Faculty Member, Student Academic Judiciary Committee. Tulane University. 1999-2002.

 

            Faculty Adviser to Freshman. Tulane College. Tulane University. 1998-1999.

 

 

Faculty Committee Service:

 

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Chase Billingham (2005-06, Director)

Therese Diede (2004-05, Director)

Kiva Feldman (2002-03, Director)

Jacob McLain (2002-03, Director)

Anna Conley (1998-99; Director)

David McConnell (1998-99; Psychology)

Marianne Fischer (1998-99; Psychology)

Shannon Fuller (1999-2000; Psychology)

Amanda Colley (1999-2000; Anthropology)

 

Ph.D. Committee Memberships

Farrah Gafford (Chair, 2008)

Jay Arena (Chair, 2007)

Jeannie Haubert (2007)

Krista Brumley (2004)

Amy Hite (2002)

Carla Hall (2001)

 

M.A. Committee Memberships

Jennifer Day (Chair, 2005-2006)

Andrea Wilbon (Chair, 2004-2005)

Tim Haney (2004-2005)

XiaoXiao Peng (2004-2005)

Faith Jarmon (2004-2005; Latin America Studies)

Bryan Maddox (2002-2003)

Jennifer Burczyk (1998-1999)

 

Ph.D. Area Exam Committees

Farrah Gafford (Chair, 2003-2004)

Jessica Pardee (Chair, 2002-2003)

Carla Hall (1999-2001)

 

Independent Studies

Andrea Wilbon (2005)

Jeannie Haubert (2004, Racial Discrimination)

Jessica Pardee (2001, Housing Studies)

Jay Arena (2000, Historical Sociology)

 

 

Department Committee Service:

 

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Diversity Issues. Department of Sociology, Tulane University, 2008-2009

 

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Service Learning, Department of Sociology, Tulane University, 2008-2009

 

Member, Grievance Committee. Department of Sociology, Tulane University, 2008-2009.

 

Chair, Undergraduate Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 2001-2005.

 

Faculty Member, Undergraduate Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 1997-2005.

 

Faculty Member, Salary Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 2004-2005.

 

Faculty Director, Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha Chapter of Louisiana. International Sociology Honor Sociology. Tulane University. 1999-2005.

 

Member, Social Theory Examination Committee. Department of Sociology. Tulane University. 1998-2005 (Chair, Social Theory Examination Committee, 2000-2001). 

                       

 

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITY

 

Council Member. Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS). American Sociological Association (ASA). 2007-2010. 

 

Chair, Robert Park Book Award Committee. Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS). American Sociological Association (ASA). 2006-2007. 

 

Member, Program Committee, Midwest Sociological Society (MSS). 2002.

 

Member, Nominations Committee. Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS). American Sociological  Association (ASA). 1998.

 

 

Editor and Reviewer

 

Member, Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Trauma, 2009-present.  

 

Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 2008-2010.

 

NSF Proposal Reviewer and Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology Dissertation Panel. 2009-2010.

 

Deputy Editor, Sociological Quarterly, 2004-2008.

 

Advisory Editor, Encyclopedia of Sociology. 2004-2006. Blackwell Publishers. 

 

NSF Proposal Reviewer and Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology Program Advisory Panel. 2005. 

 

NSF Proposal Reviewer and Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology Dissertation Panel. 2004.

 

Guest Editor, Research in Urban Sociology. Volume Six. Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment.  Elsevier Press. 2000-2001.

 

Managing Editor, Sociological Inquiry. 1993-1997.

 

Manuscript reviewer:

American Journal of Sociology

American Studies

Area

City and Community

Geoforum

Housing Studies

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Journal of Consumer Culture

Journal of Poverty

Journal of Urban History

Mid-American Review of Sociology

Pacific Historical Review

Policy Studies

Qualitative Sociology

Research in Political Sociology

Social Problems

Social Science Research

Social Thought and Research

Sociological Forum

Sociological Inquiry

Sociological Quarterly

Urban Studies

 

Co-Editor, Mid-American Review of Sociology. 1991-1996. Department of Sociology. University of Kansas.

 

 

Book/Textbook Reviewer:

 

Sociological Theory (Fifth Edition, George Ritzer). McGraw-Hill. 2000.

 

The New Urban Sociology. Chapter 6: The Rise of Urban Sociology (Second Edition, Mark Gottdiener and Ray Hutchison). McGraw-Hill. 2000.

 

Multiculturalism in Global Society (by Peter Kivisto). Blackwell Publishers, 21st Century Sociology Series. 2002.

 

Urban Sociology.  Pine Forge Press. 2002.

 

Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption. (By George Ritzer).  Pine Forge Press. 2003.

 

Sociological Theory. Proposal for Social Theory Textbook. Blackwell. 2004.

 

 

National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Planning and Management (2006-2008) 

 

·         Provided leadership, implemented review and evaluation process, and coordinated program tasks and responsibilities for the Sociology, Law and Social Science (LSS), and Political Science Programs.  

·         Designed and implemented the review and evaluation process for Sociology Advisory Panels (2006-2008), Sociology Dissertation Advisory Panels (2006-2008), Law and Social Science (LSS) Advisory Panels (2006-2008), and Political Science Dissertation Advisory Panels (2006, 2007)

·         selected qualified scholars to provide objective reviews on proposals either as individuals or as members of a panel

·         conducted final review of proposals and made evaluations

·         monitored the progress of awards through review and evaluation of reports and publications submitted by awardees. 

·         Managed ongoing grants, contracts, interagency and cooperative agreements for the Sociology, Law and Social Science (LSS), and Political Science Programs. 

·         Organized materials and assisted in the planning of the Committee of Visitors (COV) evaluation for the Sociology Program (2007).

·         Selected panelists and served as the Social and Economic Sciences (SES) representative for the Agents of Change (AOC) panel for the Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) Competition (2007). 

·         Assisted in organizing “The General Social Survey: The Next Decade and Beyond: Workshop on Planning for the Future of the GSS,” held at the NSF in Arlington, VA on May 2-3, 2007.

·         Reviewed and evaluated funded projects for the Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) Revise Site Visit (RSV) program. 

 

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

2008. Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Jane Addams Award for best scholarly article in community and urban sociology published in the past two years. “The Secondary Circuit of Capital Reconsidered:  Globalization and the U.S. Real Estate Sector.” American Journal of Sociology.  112(1): 231-75. July 2006.

 

2008. Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Robert Park Book Award. Honorable Mention. Authentic New Orleans: Race, Culture, and Tourism in the Big Easy.  New York University (NYU) Press. 2007.

 

2002. Mid-America American Studies Association Stone Suderman Award for Outstanding Article of the Year: “Missed Opportunities, Enduring Legacies: School Segregation and Desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri.” American Studies. 43 (2): 5-41. Summer 2002.

 

1997. Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Graduate Student Paper Award. First Place. “Suburbia Under Siege: Low-Income Housing and Racial Conflict in Metropolitan in Kansas City, 1970-present.”

 

1996.  Midwest Sociological Society Graduate Student Paper Award. First Place. “Building the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, 1950-70.”

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

American Sociological Association (ASA), 1992-present.

 

ASA Section Memberships:

·         Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS)

·         Economic Sociology Section

·         Sociology of Law Section 

·         Sociology of Culture Section

·         Sociological Theory Section

·         Comparative and Historical Sociology Section

·         Marxist Sociology Section

 

Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 1997-present.

 

            SSSP Section Memberships:

·         Class, Poverty, and Inequality Section

·         Social Theory Section

 

Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), 1992-present.

 

Southern Sociological Society (SSS), 1998-present. 

 

American Studies Association, 1996-present.

 

Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).

Member, Poverty and Race Research Action Council.

 

Kansas Sociological Society, 1992-1997.

 

Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociology Honor Society), 1989-present.

 

President, Beta chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, University of Kansas, 1990-1996.

 

 

Other Memberships

 

Mayor's Task Force on Race Relations; Housing, Neighborhoods, Economic Development Cluster; Kansas City, Missouri, 1996.

 

Greater Kansas City Urban League, 1996-1997.

 

 

 

REFERENCES

 

Jim Wright

Professor

Department of Sociology

University of Central Florida

4000 Central Florida Blvd.

Office: PH 403Q

Orlando, FL 32816-1360
Phone: (407) 823-5083

Fax: (407) 823-6738

Email: jwright@mail.ucf.edu

 

Robert Antonio

Professor

Department of Sociology

University of Kansas

1415 Jayhawk Blvd.

716 Fraser Hall

Lawrence, KS  66045-7556

Phone: (785) 864-4111; (785) 864-9400

Fax: (785) 864-5280

Email: anto@ku.edu

 

Beth Rubin

Professor

Department of Sociology

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

9201 University City Blvd.

Office: 351-B

Charlotte, N.C. 28223

Phone: 704.687.6215
Email: barubin@uncc.edu

 

Anthony Orum

Professor

Department of Sociology

University of Illinois, Chicago

1007 W. Harrison Street, MC 312

4146C BSB

Chicago, IL  60607

Phone: (312) 996-3015

Email: amorum@uic.edu

 

Bernie Philips

Professor Emeritus

Department of Sociology

Boston University

Provincetown, MA

Email: Bernieflps@aol.com

From Sept 2007 through Oct. 12, 2007:

105 Commercial Street

Provincetown, MA 02657

(508) 487-3344

From Nov. 14, 2007 onward:

2002 Harbourside Drive, Unit 1602;

Longboat Key, FL 34228

(941) 387-0784

 

Nancy Denton

Professor

Department of Sociology

University of Albany

Arts & Sciences 337

Albany, NY 

(518) 442-4460

Email: n.denton@albany.edu