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CURRICULUM VITAE

Kevin Fox Gotham, Ph.D., CPP

Personal Website: https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/sociology/people/faculty/kevin-fox-

gotham

EDUCATIONAL RECORD

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

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

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

CERTIFICATION

Certified Protection Professional (CPP). Board Certified in Security Management, American

Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) International. Certified by examination, June 2018.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Grants, and Research, School of Liberal Arts (SLA),

Tulane University, 2015-present

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Liberal Arts (SLA), Tulane University, 2008-

2015

CONTACT INFORMATION

Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Grants, and Research

School of Liberal Arts (SLA)

Tulane University

102 Newcomb Hall

New Orleans, LA 70118

Phone: (504) 862-3004

Fax: (504) 865-5224

Email: [email protected]

Professor of Sociology

Tulane University

220 Newcomb Hall

New Orleans, LA 70118

Fax: (504) 865-5544

https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/sociology/people/faculty/kevin-fox-gotham

https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/sociology/people/faculty/kevin-fox-gotham

mailto:[email protected]


Professor of Sociology, Tulane University, 2008-present

Co-Vice Chair, Social-Behavioral Institutional Review Board (IRB), Tulane University, 2016-17

Director, Urban Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts (SLA), Tulane University, 2016-present

Adjunct Professor of the School of Social Work, Tulane University, 2016-present

Director, Social Policy and Practice Program (SPP), Tulane University, 2009-2014, 2016-2017

Interim Director, Asian Studies Program, Tulane University, 2011

Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), Sociology, Political Science, and Law

and Social Science (LSS) Programs, Arlington, VA, 2006-2008

Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University, 2003-2008

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

2004

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tulane University, 1997-2003

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

2003

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

Expert (EE-0101), Directorate for Social, Behavior, and Economic Sciences, Division of Social

and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation, January-July 2014.

AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALTY

Forensic Sociology, Environmental Criminology, Urban Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, Social

Theory, Sociology of Culture, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Economic Sociology,

Sociology of Law, Real Estate and Housing Policy, Political Economy of Tourism, Post-Disaster

Recovery and Rebuilding

WORK IN PROGRESS

Papers:

“Place or Character” of a Business: Environmental Criminology and Negligent Security

Litigation. Revise and Resubmit. Revised draft currently under review at Journal of Applied


Social Science. August 2019.

Analyzing Crime Foreseeability: Premises Security Litigation and the Case of Convenience

Stores / Gas Stations (co-authored with Daniel B. Kennedy). Revise and Resubmit. Revised

draft currently under review at Security Journal.

The Climate Change Double Whammy: Flood Damage and the Determinants of Flood Insurance

Coverage, the Case of Post-Katrina New Orleans (co-authored with Clare Cannon, Bradford

Powers, and Katie Lauve-Moon). Draft Manuscript

Can the “Place or Character” of a Premises Invoke a Duty to Protect from Third Party Criminal

Conduct? Draft Manuscript.

Negligent Security and the “Place or Character” of a Business: A Criminological Perspective on

Section 344 Analyses. Draft Manuscript.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Practicing Forensic Criminology (co-authored with Daniel B. Kennedy). Elsevier, Academic

Press, 2019.

Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans. Co-authored with

Miriam Greenberg. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Authentic New Orleans: Race, Culture, and Tourism in the Big Easy. New York, NY: New York

University (NYU) Press, 2007.

Honorable Mention for the Robert Park Outstanding Book Award, Community and

Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association (ASA), 2008

Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010. Albany,

NY: State University of New York (SUNY) Press. First Edition, 2002. Second Edition, 2014.

Edited Volume:

Critical Perspectives on Urban Redevelopment. Volume Six of Research in Urban Sociology.

New York: Emerald Press, 2001.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

“Antagonisms of Adaptation: Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in New Orleans and New

York.” Co-authored with Megan Faust. Forthcoming in Louisiana’s Response to Extreme


Weather – A Test Case for Coastal Resilience. Edited by Shirley Laska. Springer International

Publishing. 2019.

“Assessing and Advancing Research on Tourism Gentrification.” Invited peer-reviewed essay.

Via Tourism Review. September 2018. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/2169;

DOI: 10.4000/viatourism.2169; ISSN: 2259-924X. Translated into French and Italian.

“Hazard Experience, Geophysical Vulnerability, and Flood Risk Perceptions in a Post-Disaster

City, the Case of New Orleans.” Co-authored with Richard Campanella, Bradford Powers, and

Katie Lauve-Moon. Risk Analysis: An International Journal. 38 (2): 345-356. February 2018

“Risk and Recovery: Understanding Flood Risk Perceptions in a Postdisaster City -- The Case of

New Orleans.” Co-authored with Katie Lauve-Moon and Bradford Powers. Sociological

Spectrum, 37:6, 335-352. 2017.

“Touristic Disaster: Spectacle and Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Geoforum. 86 (2017)

127–135. 2017.

“Coastal Restoration as Contested Terrain: Climate Change and the Political Economy of Risk

Reduction in Louisiana.” Sociological Forum. 31(S1): 787-806. September 2016.

“Antinomies of Risk Reduction: Climate Change and the Contradictions of Coastal Restoration.”

Environmental Sociology. 2(2): 208-219. 2016.

“Re-anchoring Capital in Disaster-Devastated Spaces: Financialization and the Gulf Opportunity

(GO) Zone Program.” Urban Studies. Special Issue “Financialization and the Production of

Urban Space.” 53(7): 1362–1383. DOI: 10.1177/0042098014548117. 2016.

“Limitations, Legacies, and Lessons: Post-Katrina Rebuilding in Retrospect and Prospect.”

American Behavioral Science. 59(10): 1314-26. 2015.

“Green Tourism and the Ambiguities of Sustainability Discourse: The Case of New Orleans’s

Lower Ninth Ward” (co-authored with Joshua Lewis). International Journal of Social Ecology

and Sustainable Development (IJSESD). 6(2), 60-77. April-June 2015.

“Mechanisms of Mutation: Policy Mobilities and the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone.” Urban

Geography. 35(8): 1171-1195. November 2014.

“Racialization and Rescaling: Post-Katrina Rebuilding and the Louisiana Road Home Program.”

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 38(3):773-90. May 2014.

“Beyond the New Normal: Trauma, Diversity, and the New Orleans Long-Term Urban Research

Area Exploratory (ULTRA-Ex) Project,” with Mike Blum and Richard Campanella. Cities and

http://journals.openedition.org/viatourism/2169


the Environment (CATE). 7(1) (article 4). 2014.

“Reinforcing Inequalities: The Impact of the CDBG Program on Post-Katrina Rebuilding,”

Housing Policy Debate. 24 (1):192-212. January 2014.

“Dilemmas of Disaster Zones: Tax Incentives and Business Reinvestment in the Gulf Coast after

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” City and Community. 12(4), 291-308. December 2013.

“Constructions of Resilience: Ethnoracial Diversity, Inequality, and Post-Katrina Recovery, the

Case of New Orleans” (co-authored with Richard Campanella). Social Sciences. 2(4):298-317.

2013.

“Disaster, Inc.: Privatization and Post-Katrina Rebuilding in New Orleans.” Perspectives on

Politics, 10: 633-646. September 2012.

“Cascading Crises: The Crisis-Policy Nexus and the Restructuring of the U.S. Housing Finance

System.” Critical Sociology. 38(1): 101-116. January 2012.

“Reconstructing the Big Easy: Racial Heritage Tourism in New Orleans.” Journal of Policy

Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. 3(2): 109-120. July 2011.

“Coupled Vulnerability and Resilience: The Dynamics of Cross-Scale Interactions in Post-

Katrina New Orleans” (with Richard Campanella). Ecology and Society 16 (3): 12.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04292-160312. 2011.

“Reconsidering the New Normal: Vulnerability and Resilience in Post-Katrina New Orleans”

(Kevin Fox Gotham, Richard Campanella, Josh Lewis, Farrah Gafford, Earthea Nance,

Mallikharjuna R. Avula). Global Horizons: The Journal of Global Policy and Resilience. 4(2):

2011.

“Resisting Urban Spectacle: The 1984 Louisiana Exposition and the Contradictions of Mega-

Events.” Urban Studies. 48(1) 197–214: January 2011.

“Theorizing Carnival: Mardi Gras as Perceived, Conceived, and Lived Space.” Pp. 93-118 in

Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society. Edited by Jerome Braun and Lauren Langman.

New York and London: Routledge. 2011.

“Toward a Research Agenda on Transformative Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for

Urban Ecosystems” (with Richard Campanella). Critical Planning. 17 (Summer): 9-23. 2010.

“Creating Liquidity Out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Subprime

Mortgage Crisis.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 33 (2): 355–71. June

2009.

http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04292-160312


An expanded version of this article appears in Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of

Mortgage Markets. Edited by Manuel B. Aalbers. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. 2012.

“Housing Policy” (co-authored with James D. Wright). Pp. 237-55 in Handbook of Social Policy.

Edited by James Midgley, Michelle Livermore, and Martin B. Tracy. Sage Publications. Second

edition. 2009.

“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. 25: 155-192. 2008.

“Housing Policy, the Low-Income Housing Crisis, and the Problem of Homelessness” (co-

authored with James D. Wright and Amy M. Donley). Homelessness in America. Edited by

Robert McNamara. Volume 2. New York: Greenwood Publishing. 2008.

“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.

“Ethnic Heritage Tourism and Global-Local Connections in New Orleans.” Tourism, Ethnic

Diversity and the City. Edited by Jan Rath. pp. 125-42. Routledge. 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 (CUSS) 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).

“Neoliberal Revitalization: Prison Building, Casinos, and Tourism in Louisiana” (co-authored


with Jeannie Haubert). Chapter 1 in Urban Communication: Production, Text, Context. Edited

by Tim Gibson and Mark Lowes. Rowman and Littlefield. Pp. 25-40. 2006.

“HOPE VI, Section 8, and the Contradictions of Low-Income Housing Policy” (co-authored with

Jessica Pardee). Journal of Poverty. 9(2): 1-21. July 2005.

“Tourism from Above and Below: Globalization, Localization, and New Orleans’s Mardi Gras.”

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 29(2): 309-26. June 2005.

“Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans’s Vieux Carre (French Quarter).” Urban

Studies. 42(7): 1099-1121. June 2005

Reprinted in Gentrification Debates. Edited by Japonica Brown-Saracino. New York,

NY: Routledge, 145-65. 2010.

“Theorizing Urban Spectacles: Festivals, Tourism, and the Transformation of Urban Space.”

City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 9(2): 225-46. 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. September

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.

Abridged version reprinted in The Pursuit of Racial and Ethnic Equality in American

Public Schools: Mendez, Brown, and Beyond. Edited by Kristi L. Bowman. Michigan

State University Press, 2015

“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, Volume III, Event Tourism

and Destinations: Case Studies and Best Practice, edited by Stephen Page and Joanne

Connell. Routledge. December 2009, 102-130.

“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

and 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

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.

“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.

“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” (co-authored 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.

Reprinted in Troubled Times: Readings in Social Problems. Chapter 2. 2000. First

Edition. Edited by Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer. Oxford and 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:

“Real Estate and American Urban Culture.” Forthcoming in American Urbanism. Edited by

Joseph Heathcott. Routledge Press, 2020.

“Space/Time.” Invited Submission. Forthcoming in The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory.

Edited by Peter Kivisto. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

“Revitalizing the Damaged Brand: Place (Re)Branding in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Co-

authored with Cate Irvin. Inclusive Place Branding: Critical Perspectives in Theory and

Practice. Edited by Mihalis Kavaratzis, Massimo Giovanardi, Maria Lichrou. Routledge Studies

in Critical Marketing. November 2018.

“Circulating Risks: Coastal Cities and the Specter of Climate Change Risk.” Co-authored with

Clare Cannon. Invited Submission. Pp. 393-403 in Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban

Politics. Edited by Kevin Ward, Andy E.G. Jonas, Byron Miller, and David Wilson. Routledge.

April 2018.

“Katrina is Coming to Your City: Storm and Flood Defense Infrastructures in Risk Society.” Pp.

161-83 in Disaster and Risk in the Gulf South: Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and

Resilience. Edited by Cindy Ermus. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press,

January 2018.


“Post-Disaster Recovery and Rebuilding.” Co-authored with Wes Cheek. Pp. 279-287 in The

Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City. Edited by Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett. Sage

Publications. 2018.

“Constructing and Contesting Resilience in Post-Disaster Urban Communities.” Co-authored

with Bradford Powers. Pp. 139-154 in The Sage Handbook of New Urban Studies. Edited by

John Hannigan and Greg Richards. Sage Publications. 2017.

“Beyond Bread and Circuses: Mega-Events as Forces of Creative-Destruction.” Mega Events

and Globalization: Capital and Spectacle in a Changing World Order. Pp. 31-47. Edited by Rick

Gruneau and John Horne, Routledge. 2017.

“Contrasts of Carnival: Mardi Gras Between the Modern and Postmodern.” Illuminating Social

Life (6th edition). Edited by Peter Kivisto. Pine Forge Press. 2013.

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

Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times. Edited by Sarah Banet-Weiser

and Roopali Mukherjee. New York University (NYU) Press. February 2012.

“Creating Liquidity Out of Spatial Fixity: The Secondary Circuit of Capital and the Subprime

Mortgage Crisis.” Pp. 25-52 in Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets.

Edited by Manuel B. Aalbers. Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.

An abridged version of this chapter appears in International Journal of Urban and

Regional Research. 33 (2): 355–71. June 2009.

“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 Redevelopmen. 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” (co-authored 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. 295-310 in Multiculturalism in the United States: Current Issues,

Contemporary Voices. Edited by Peter Kivisto and Georganne Rundblad. Pine Forge Press.

2000.


Other Publications

“Megalopolis.” Forthcoming in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. Edited

by George Ritzer.

“Urban Revolution.” Forthcoming in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition.

Edited by George Ritzer.

“World’s Fairs as Mega-Events.” Forthcoming in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology,

2nd Edition. Edited by George Ritzer.

“Dark Tourism and Disaster Tourism.” Forthcoming in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of

Sociology, 2nd Edition. Edited by George Ritzer.

“Back to the Spectacle: Reflections on the Society of the Spectacle a Half-Century Later.”

Currently under review at Analog Sea Review: An Offline Journal. 2019. Number Two. Pp. 89-

99.

“Urbanization” (co-authored with Arianna J. King). In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology.

Second Edition. Edited by George Ritzer and Wendy Wiendenhoft. New York: Wiley-Blackwell

Publications. Chapter 16 (pp. 267-82). 2019.

“Spectacle.” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Edited by Anthony

Orum. April 2019.

“Urban Sociology.” (co-authored with Cate Irvin). Core Concepts in Sociology. Edited by J.

Michael Ryan. Wiley-Blackwell. 2019.

“Criminalistics and Forensic Criminology.” Forensic Social Scientist. 3(1) Spring 2017.

“Debating Forensic Social Science: Social Framework Analysis and Lessons of Dukes v. Wal-

Mart for Expert Witnesses.” Pp. 2-11 in the Forensic Social Scientist. 2(3) Summer 2017/Fall

2017.

“Restrictive Covenants.” The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress

and Poverty. Edited by Robert Rycroft. Greenwood Press. Pp. 647-639. May 2017. Greenwood

Press.

“Climate Change, Trauma, and Coastal Cities.” Newsletter of the Community and Urban

Sociology Section (CUSS), American Sociological Association (ASA). Summer 2016. 28(3).

“The Specter of Counter-Urbanization: Water Crises and Sustainability Challenges in Shrinking

Cities.” Newsletter of the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS), American


Sociological Association (ASA). Spring 2016. 28(2).

“Meanings of ‘Theory’ and Theorizing in Urban Sociology.” Newsletter of the Community and

Urban Sociology Section (CUSS), American Sociological Association (ASA). Fall 2015. 28(1).

“Graduate Student Corner: Keeping the Momentum Going Beyond the Dissertation:

Advice for Graduate Students with Dr. Kevin Gotham.” SSSP Environment and Technology

Division. Spring Newsletter. 2015

“Tourism.” In Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. Edited by

J. Michael Ryan and Daniel Cook. March 2014.

“Urbanization.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer.

Chapter 26 (pp. 488-503). 2012.

“Trauma and Entertainment.” Encyclopedia of Trauma. Edited by Charles R. Figley. Sage

Publications. 2012.

“Urban Tourism.” Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer and

Michael Ryan. Wiley-Blackwell Publications, 2011.

“Gentrification.” Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by George Ritzer and

Michael Ryan. Wiley-Blackwell Publications, 2011.

“World's Fairs (International Expositions).” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (Online).

Edited by Michael Ryan and George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2011.

“Disaster Tourism.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (Online). Edited by Michael Ryan and

George Ritzer. Blackwell Publications. 2010.

“Tourism and Culture.” Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Edited by John Hall, Ming-

Cheng Lo, and Laura Grindstaff. London: Routledge. 2010 (first edition), 2018 (second edition).

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

Publications. December 2009.

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

December 2009.

“Why We Go Home Again.” Review of “Still Waiting: Life After Katrina,” a documentary

produced by Kate Browne and Ginny Martin. Contexts. 8(1): 64-66. February 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, Missouri” Encyclopedia 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.

Book Review Essays

“The Elusive Recovery: Post-Hurricane Katrina Rebuilding During the First Decade, 2005-

2015.” Review Essay for Contemporary Sociology. 2017. 46(2): 138-145. American Sociological

Association. DOI: 10.1177/0094306117692572. Books Reviewed: Children of Katrina. By

Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015; Left to Chance:

Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods. By Steve Kroll-Smith,

Vern Baxter, and Pam Jenkins. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015; Standing in the

Need: Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home after Katrina. By Katherine E. Browne. Austin, TX:

University of Texas Press, 2015.

“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: Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York by Lawrence

Kaplan and Carol P. Kaplan, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003; Behind the Gates:

Life Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America by Setha Low, New York:

Routledge, 2003; Harlem: Between Heaven and Hell by Monique M. Taylor, Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press, 2002; How East New York Became a Ghetto by Walther Thabit,

New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Book Reviews


Preventing the Next Mortgage Crisis: The Meltdown, the Federal Response, and the Future of

Housing in America. By Dan Immergluck. New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield.

2015. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR). 40(6): November 2016.

The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience. By Kathleen Tierney.

Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2014. Pp. ix+301. American Journal of Sociology.

121(2): 646-8. September 2015.

Kansas City and How It Grew, 1822–2011. By James R. Shortridge. University Press of Kansas

2012. Association of American Geographers (AAG), Review of Books. Vol. 3, no. 1 (2015): 9-

11.

Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery. By Daniel P. Aldrich. Chicago,

IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 232pp. $30.00 paper. Co-authored with Brad Powers.

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 44, no. 1 (2015): 30-31.

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith. By Vincane Adams. Duke University Press. Times Higher

Education. March 21, 2013.

International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World? Edited by Nicholas A.

Phelps and Fulong Wu. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 289 pp. $79.00, hardback.

ISBN: 9780230276390. Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. March 2013. 42(2):

268-269.

Region: Planning the Future of the Twin Cities, by Myron Orfield and Thomas F. Luce, Jr.

Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-8166-6556-3

(hardback); City and Community, 2012. Volume 11, Issue 4, pages 431–433, December.

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: A Journal of Reviews, January 2010; vol. 39, 1: pp. 25-26.

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. 113: 5. March 2008.

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.

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. 109(5). March 2004.

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. February. 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

and 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(1and2): 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.

GRANTS AND FUNDED RESEARCH

External Grants

2019. “Business Owners, Environmental Risk, and Coastal Resilience: An Interdisciplinary

Social Science Investigation of Perception and Decision-Making.” Co-PI: Richard Campanella.

National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology, Geography and Spatial Science, and

Decision/Risk/Management Science (DRMS) Programs. Total Requested: $530,968. Date


Submitted: August 2, 2018. Currently Under Review.

2018. “Business Owners, Environmental Risk, and Coastal Resilience: An Interdisciplinary

Investigation of Perception and Decision-Making.” Co-PI: Richard Campanella. National

Science Foundation (NSF). Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE). Total

Requested: $442,412. Date Submitted: September 1, 2018. Not Funded.

2017. Principal Investigator. “City, Culture, and Community [CCC] Department Enhancement

Program [DEP].” Louisiana Board of Regents. Total Requested: $198,715. Submitted:

November 2017. Not Funded.

2017. Principal Investigator. “Determinants of Business Owner Support for Coastal Protection

and Restoration Projects.” Water Institute of the Gulf: Restore Act Center of Excellence. State of

Louisiana. Total Requested: $192,065. Submitted: February 2017. Not Funded.

2015. Principal Investigator. “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Unequal Exposure to

Environmental Hazards: Analyzing the Location and Distribution of Landfills in the Contiguous

U.S.” National Science Foundation (NSF). Sociology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research

Improvement (DDRI) Awards. co-PI: Clare Cannon. $11,999. Submitted October 15, 2015.

Funded. April 2016.

2012-2013. Co-Principal Investigator. “Diversity and Disease in Post-Trauma Urban

Landscapes.” National Science Foundation, Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH)

program. $1,600,000. PI: Mike Blum; Co-PIs: Richard Campanella, Kevin Gotham, Caroline

Taylor, Amy Lesen, and James Childs. Submitted November 15, 2012. Funded. September 15,

2013 – September 15, 2018.

2012. Principal Investigator. “The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Ecosystem Services.”

Louisiana Board of Regents and the National Science Foundation. Louisiana Experimental

Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Pilot Funding for New Research

(Pfund). PFUND-1263-2012. $10,000. Funded. January 2013 - December 2013 (no-cost

extension, December 2013 – December 2014).

2011-2012. Co- Principal Investigator. “WSC-Category 1: From Natural Wetland to Murky

Water: Cross-disciplinary Analysis of a Drowning Urbanized Coast.” National Science

Foundation, Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC). PI: Karen Johannesson; Co-PIs: Mark

Davis, A.J. England, Mike Blum, Tor Tornqvist. $149,841. Funded. May 2012 – May 2014.

2009-2012. Principal Investigator. “Reconsidering the New Normal: The Impact of Trauma on

Urban Ecological and Social Diversity.” National Science Foundation, Urban Long-term

Research Area (ULTRA) Exploratory Award, $299,551. (Co-PI: John McLachlan). Funded.

September 30, 2009 – September 30, 2013.


1996. Midwest Sociological Society Research Grant. $600. Funded

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.

Internally Funded Grants and Awards

2018. Seed Grant from the Tulane ByWater Institute. $20,000. Proposal Title: Business Owners,

Environmental Risk, and Coastal Resilience: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Perception

and Decision-Making. co-PI; Richard Campanella.

2018-2019. Carol Lavin-Bernick Course Development Grant. $6000.

2016-2017. Carol Lavin-Bernick Course Development Grant. $6000.

2016-2017. Carol Lavin-Bernick Research Grant. $8000.

2013. Monroe Fellowship. New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. $1500.

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.



PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND

SEMINARS

2019. Tulane University Human Research Protection Office (HRPO). Research Integrity and

Subject Safety Seminar. Judy Matuk, MS from HRP Consulting Group. Tidewater Building,

Room 1201. Wednesday, May 8, 2019.

2019. SEAK, Inc. 28th Annual National Expert Witness Conference. Opal Sands Resort,

Clearwater Beach, FL. April 27-28, 2019.

2019. SEAK, Inc. How to Write a Bulletproof Expert Witness Report, Opal Sands Resort,

Clearwater Beach, FL. Organized and presided by Nadine Nasser Donovan, Esq., April 25-26,


2019.

2018. American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) International. Certified Protection

Professional (CPP) Review Program. Rosen Plaza Hotel. Orlando, Florida. March 12-13, 2018.

2017. Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Group 2. Social and Behavioral

Research Investigators and Key Personnel. Refresher Course. Completion Date: January 6, 2017.

Expiration Date: January 5, 2021. Required and elective modules completed: History and

Ethical Principles; Federal Regulations for Protecting Research Subjects; Informed Consent;

Defining Research with Human Subjects; Privacy and Confidentiality; Assessing Risk; Research

with Prisoners; Research with Children; Research in Educational Settings; International

Research.

2017. Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Conflict of Interest. Completion

Date: January 6, 2017. Expiration Date: January 5, 2021.

2015. SEAK, Inc. How to Start, Build, and Run a Successful Expert Witness Practice,

Washington Court Hotel, Washington, DC. Organized and presided by James J. Mangraviti, Jr.

Esq., April 23-24, 2015.

2014. Tulane University Human Research Protection Office (HRPO). Practical and Legal Issues

Relating to Biomedical and Social-Behavioral Human Subjects Research. Presentation by Jeff

Cohen (HRP Consulting Group), May 11, 2012, Diboll Auditorium, 1440 Canal Street, 1st Floor

(Tidewater Bldg.).

2010. Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Responsible Conduct of Research

(Curriculum Group). Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research Course (Course

Learner Group). 1 – RCR. Completion Date: July 20, 2010. Expiration Date: NA.

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

“Risk Perceptions Parallel Policy-Driven Socioecological Disparities Across Post-Katrina New

Orleans.” Authors: Michael J Blum, Kevin F. Gotham, Amy Lesen, Joshua A. Lewis, Richard

Campanella, Claudia Riegel, Anna C. Peterson, Bruno M. Ghersi, Bradford Powers, Katie

Lauve-Moon. Presentation at the Ecological Society of American, New Orleans, LA. August

2018.

“Touristic Disaster: Spectacle and Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Presentation at the

Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Session: Disasters. Organized

by Jennifer Rogers-Brown. Montreal, WA. August 2017.

“Hazard Experience, Geophysical Vulnerability, and Flood Risk Perceptions in a Post-Disaster

City, the Case of New Orleans.” Co-authored with Richard Campanella, Bradford Powers, and


Katie Moon. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association

(ASA). Montreal, Canada. August 2017.

“Antinomies of Risk Reduction: Climate Change, Uneven Development, and the Contradictions

of Coastal Restoration.” Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological

Association (ASA). Session: Risk. Organized by Alissa Cordner. Seattle, WA. August 20, 2016.

“Risk and Recovery: Understanding Flood Risk Perceptions in a Post-Disaster City, the Case of

New Orleans.” Co-authored with Katie Lauve-Moon and Bradford Powers. Presentation at the

Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Session: Urban Crises and

Recovery. Organized by Meredith Grief. Seattle, WA. August 21, 2016.

“Disaster and Risk: Lessons and Legacies of the Post-Katrina Rebuilding Process.” Presentation

at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Session: Impact of

Katrina. Organized by Kai Erikson. Chicago, IL. August 23, 2015.

“Legacies, Limitations and Lessons: Post-Disaster Recovery and Uneven Development after

Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.” American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting. San

Francisco, CA. August 19, 2014.

“Conundrums of Resilience: Socio-Spatial Inequality and Neighborhood Recovery in Post-

Katrina New Orleans.” American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting. New York, NY.

August 10, 2013.

“Beyond Resilience and Sustainability: Bonding and Bridging Ties in Lakeview the Lower Ninth

Ward.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society (SSS). March 2012. New Orleans,

LA.

“Patterns and Processes of Sustainability in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Annual Meeting of the

Southern Sociological Society (SSS). March 2012. New Orleans, LA.

“Sustainability for Whom and for What Purpose?” Regional Spotlight Session (Las Vegas).

Sustainable Las Vegas? Environment, Quality of Life, and Urban Living in the 21st Century.

American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. August 22, 2011.

“Reconsidering the New Normal: Trauma, Vulnerability, and Resilience in Post-Katrina New

Orleans.” Ecological Society of American (ESA) Annual Meeting. Austin, TX. August 10, 2011.

Kevin Fox Gotham, John McLachlan, Richard Campanella, Mike Blum, Farrah Gafford, Earthea

Nance, Mallikharjuna R. Avula, and Wayne Zipperer.

“Urban Trauma and Social-Ecological Resilience: Insights from the New Orleans Urban Long-

Term Research Area (ULTRA) Project.” Kevin Fox Gotham, John McLachlan, Richard

Campanella, Mike Blum, Farrah Gafford, Earthea Nance, Mallikharjuna R. Avula, and Wayne


Zipperer.

Returning To Katrina: Bringing Hurricane Katrina Research Back To the Community.

The University of Southern Mississippi. Gulf Park Campus, Long Beach, MS. June 4-5,

2010.

American Anthropological Association (AAA) Meeting. New Orleans, LA. November

19, 2010.

Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 18, 2011.

“Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans” (with Miriam

Greenberg).

American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 2010.

Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. April 18, 2011.

“Housing Policy, Housing Rights, and Post-Katrina Rebuilding.” American Sociological

Association (ASA) Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 2010.

“Make It Right? Brad Pitt, Celebrity Activism, and Post-Katrina Rebuilding.” Midwest

Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 2010.

“Post-Katrina Rebuilding through the Tax Code: Tax Incentives and the Gulf Opportunity (GO)

Zone.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2009.

“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.

“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.


City, 1900-1950.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.

August 2000.

“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.

“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: Political Conflict and U.S. Internal Security

Policy, 1956-1971.” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, April

1992.

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations

“Premises Liability: Crime Foreseeability and Adequacy of Security.” Presentation before the

Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (PAMIC) 2019 Claims Summit.

Wyndham Gettysburg, 95 Presidential Circle, Gettysburg, PA. April 9, 2019.

“Touristic Disaster: Spectacle and Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” Invited Keynote

Speaker, From Stigma to Brand: Commodifying and Aestheticizing Urban Poverty and Violence.

Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany. Organizers: Eveline Dürr, Rivke

Jaffe, and Gareth Jones. February 16-18, 2017.

“Risk Perception and Response: Understanding Risk Perceptions in a Post-Disaster Context-

Early Findings from the CNH Social Survey.” Co-authored with Katherine Lauve-Moon and

Bradford Powers. Presentation at Katrina @ Ten - Recovery, Return, Resilience, and Enduring

Vulnerabilities. Organized by Mike Blum and Mark Vanlandingham. School of Public Health

and the Center for Bio-Environmental Research (CBR). Tulane University. New Orleans, LA.

August 27, 2015.

“Tourism and New Orleans in Retrospect and Prospect.” Invited roundtable presentation at the

Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA). New Orleans, LA. February

2015.


“Contested Terrain: Culture and Tourism in New Orleans.” Invited presentation at the Rising

Tide conference. Xavier University, New Orleans. September 14, 2013

“Culture, Tourism, and Community.” Presentation at Loyola University, New Orleans. March

15, 2013.

“A Repertoire of Authenticity: Tourism Gentrification and the Transformation of the French

Quarter.” Invited presentation for the University of Kansas Honors Program Lecture Series at

The Commons. University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS. March 5, 2012.

“Ideology, Condition, or Process? Conceptions of Urban Tourism and the Political Economy of

Cities.” Presentation at Loyola University, New Orleans. March 29, 2012.

“Urban Trauma and Social-Ecological Resilience: Insights from the New Orleans Urban Long-

Term Research Area (ULTRA) Project.” “Thinking Across the Curriculum” Brown Bag

series. University Center Ballroom. Xavier University. March 2, 2011.

“Tips on Writing a Successful Grant Proposal.” Policy and Research Workshop. NSF Funding

Opportunities, Merit Review Criteria and Proposal Preparation for Professional Sociologists and

Graduate Studies. American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. August

22, 2011.

Invited Roundtable. “Re-Constructing the City: A Conversation with Kevin Fox Gotham.”

Sponsor: Society for the Anthropology of North America. Organizers: Julian B. Brash and

Aimee M. Cox. Chair: Jeff Maskovsky. American Anthropological Association (AAA) Meeting.

New Orleans, LA. November 19, 2010.

“The Subprime Crisis and the Restructuring of the U.S. Housing Finance System.” Presentation

at Brown University. S4 Colloquium. Organized and Moderated by John Logan. February 26,

2010.

“Interdisciplinarity, Civic Engagement, and Graduate Education.” Presentation at “Walking a

Fine Line Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement: A Symposium in New Orleans.” Dillard

University. Organizer: Amy Lesen. November 4, 2010.

“Residential Segregation in Kansas City: Origins, Development, and Consequences.”

Presentation at Rockhurst College. Visiting Scholar Lecture Series. Kansas City, Missouri.

October 16, 2007.

“Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Just City.” Presentation at the Center on Metropolitan

Studies (CMS). Technische Universität Berlin. 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. Organized by William Swart. Sioux Falls, SD.

November 2005.

Presentation at University of Florida. Organized by Regina Bures. Gainesville, FL.

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.

“The Influence of French Marxism in U.S. Urban Sociology.” Presentation at the L’Ecole des

Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Organized by Florent Champy and Erwan Dianteill. Paris,

France. November 22, 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. Organized by Florent

Champy and Erwan Dianteill. Paris, France. November 19, 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. Organized by Florent

Champy and Erwan Dianteill. Paris, France. November 15, 2004.

“Race and Urban Policy in the United States.” Presentation at the L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en

Sciences Sociales. Organized by Florent Champy and Erwan Dianteill. Paris, France. November

8, 2004.

“Policies and Practices of Whiteness.” Presentation at Legacies and Unfinished Business of

Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka.” Organized by Norman Yetman. University of Kansas.

Lawrence, Kansas. March 14-17, 2004.

“Building the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City.” Presentation

before Kansas City Harmony. Kansas City, Missouri. March 17, 2004.

“Ethnic Heritage Tourism and Global-Local Connections in New Orleans.” “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.

“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. Sponsored by Kansas City Harmony.

Embassy Suites Hotel, Country Club Plaza. Kansas City, Missouri. October 28, 2003.



City, 1900-1950.” College of Urban and Regional Planning. University of New Orleans. New

Orleans, LA. Organized and Moderated by Mickey Lauria. December 8, 1999.

“Building the Troost Wall: Racial Transition and Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, 1950-

1970.” Department of Sociology. University of Missouri-Kansas City. Organized and

Moderated by Philip Olson. April 19, 1996.

Poster Presentations

“City, Culture, and Community (CCC) Graduate Program. Poster Presentation at the American

Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting. August 2014; August 2015; August 2016.

On-Campus Presentations

“Disaster, Inc.: Privatization, Marketization, and Post-Katrina Rebuilding.” Workshop on the

Political Economy of New Orleans. Organized and Moderated by Aaron Schneider. September

10, 2010. Tulane University.

“Tourism Development and the Transformation of the French Quarter.” Presentation for the

Center for Public Service (CPS). Tulane University. September 10, 2008.

“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.

“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.

Workshop Presentations

Organizer and Host. “Writing a Successful Grant Proposal.”

Grant Writing Workshops for Faculty (2008-present)

Workshop for faculty in the School of Liberal Arts (SLA) (With Kathleen Kozar,

Director, Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA); Norey Laug, Associate

Director, Sponsored Projects Administration (SPA); Lou Franchina, Office of

Development, Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR)). Tulane University.

March 12, 2019; February 22, 2018; March 13, 2017; April 18, 2016; March 26,

2014; March 7, 2013.

Workshop for faculty in the School of Liberal Arts (SLA) (With Melissa Erekson).

Tulane University. April 3, 2012; February 3, 2011; February 2, 2010; November


4, 2008.

Workshop and Information Session on ACLS Funding Opportunities (With Lou

Franchina). Tulane University. August 29, 2019; August 28, 2018; August 31,

2017; September 1, 2016; September 2, 2015; September 7, 2013; September 4,

2012.

Grant Writing Workshops for Graduate Students (2008-present)

Workshop for graduate students of the School of Liberal Arts (SLA) (With Chris

Rodning, and Katie Johnson). Tulane University, September 21, 2018.


Rodning, Justin Wolfe, Allison Truitt, and Mariana Craciun). Tulane University,

October 20, 2017.


Rodning, Katherine Johnson, Justin Wolfe, and Rachel Horowitz). Tulane

University, October 7, 2016.


Rodning, Katherine Johnson, and Patrick Rafail). Tulane University. October 9,

2015.

Workshop for graduate students of the School of Liberal Arts (SLA) (With

Gaurav Desei and Jennifer Ashley). Tulane University. November 11, 2013.


Kimberly Krupa, Gaurav Desei, and Jennifer Ashley). Tulane University.

November 12, 2012.


Kimberly Krupa). Tulane University. November 18, 2010.

Workshop for faculty and graduate students of the School of Liberal Arts (SLA).

Tulane University. November 3, 2008; 3:00-4:30; and November 4, 10:00-11:30.

“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)

SESSION ORGANIZER

Organizer and Presider. “ASA/NSF Postdoc Research Session.” Regular Session of the

American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. August 2014


Organizer and Presider. “Housing and Housing Policy.” Regular Session of the American

Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. August 2011

Organizer and Presider. “Carnivals, Spectacles, and Festivals: Critical Theory Today.” Midwest

Sociological Society Meeting. St. Louis, MO. April 2008

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. New York, NY. August 2007

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. Philadelphia, PA.

March 2007.

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

August 2006

Organizer. “Urban Sociology: Globalization, Localization, and Gentrification.” Midwest

Sociological Society Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005

Organizer. “Urban Sociology: Place, Identity, and Contested Spaces.” Midwest Sociological

Society Meeting. Minneapolis, MN. April 2005

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

Missouri. April 2004

Organizer (with Joe Tamura). “Local Agency and Global Forces.” Midwest Sociological Society

Meeting. Kansas City, Missouri. April 2004.

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

April 2002.


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

Meeting. Kansas City, MO. April 1998.

Organizer and Presider, “Racial Inequality.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting. Des

Moines, IA. April 1996.

Organizer and Presider (with William J. Swart), “Social Movements and the State.” Midwest

Sociological Society Meeting. Chicago, IL. April 1996.

COURSES TAUGHT

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

SOCI. 1060. Urban Sociology (Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001, Fall

2002). Tulane University.

SOCI. 3220. 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, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012; Fall 2015; Fall 2016). Tulane University.

SOCI. 6300. Urban Policy and Planning (Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2005, Fall 2011, Fall

2013). Tulane University.

SOCI. 6190. Urban Organization (Fall 1998, Spring 1998, Spring 2000). Tulane University.

SOCI. 7100. Intermediate Social Theory (Fall 2003; Fall 2004). Tulane University.

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

CCCC 7010. City, Culture, and Community (CCC). Pro-Seminar I (with Charles Figley) (Fall

2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014; Fall 2015; Fall 2016; Fall 2017; Fall 2018). Tulane

University.

CCCC 7950: Pro-Seminar II - Dissertation Research (with Charles Figley) (Spring 2014; Spring

2015; Spring 2016; Spring 2017; Spring 2018; Spring 2019). Tulane University

SOWK 9995-02: Advanced Clinical Project Seminar II: Grant Writing Seminar. (Summer 2016;

Summer 2017; Summer 2018; Summer 2019). Tulane University.

SOCI 6660. Forensic Sociology, Policy, and Law. (Fall 2017; Fall 2018; Fall 2019). Tulane

University.


UNIVERSITY / SCHOOL / DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE SERVICE

University Committee Service

Member, Internal Selection Committee for the NEH Summer Stipends program (with Mike

Cunningham and Laura Levy), Summer 2019.

Member, Tulane University Research Council. Fall 2018-present.

SLA Representative to the Tulane University Research Council. Fall 2015-present.

Member, Compliance Certification Committee, Fall 2015-present.

Participant in Tulane University Human Research Protection Office (HRPO) Training Session

for AAHRPP Site Visit Preparation / Tulane University IRB. Spring 2018; Spring 2013; Spring

2010

Member, Tulane University Environmental Health and Safety Operations Committee, 2013-

present

Coordinator, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). New Directions Fellowships,

2009-present

Research Compliance Liaison and Department Contact, School of Liberal Arts (SLA), 2012-

present.

SLA Liaison to the Responsible Conduct in Research (RCR) Faculty Committee, Tulane

University. Spring 2010-present

Voting Member, Social/Behavioral IRB in the Social Sciences, December 2008-present

Newcomb Fellow, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University, 2009-present

Member, Advisory Committee of the Tulane / Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research

(CBR), 2013-2015

Member, Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant Committee, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2019

Member, Academic Affairs Environmental Scan Committee (chaired by Paul Friedlander and

Judith Kinnard), Tulane University, 2012-2013

Tulane and SLA Liaison to the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New Faculty

Fellows (NFF) program for Recent PhDs, Fall 2009 – 2013


Tulane and SLA Representative to the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA),

2009-2015

Member, School of Social Work Retention, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Committee, 2009

(Charles Figley, Chair)

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. 2004

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.

Moderated by Barbara Moely, Psychology. Spring 2003

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 Freshmen, Tulane College. Tulane University. 1998-1999

School of Liberal Arts (SLA) Committee Service

Faculty Resources Committee (FRC), 2018-present

Ex Officio Member, Graduate Studies Committee (GSC), 2008-present

Organizer, Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellows Search Committee, 2008-2018

Ex Officio Member, SLA Curriculum Committee, 2008-2015

Ex Officio Member, Committee on Undergraduate Academic Requirements (CUAR), 2008-2015

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


2008-2012

Organizer and Ex Officio Member, Strategic Planning Committee. Department of Music, 2011 –

2012

Chair, Interdisciplinary Program Review Committee, School of Liberal Arts (SLA), 2009-2010

Chair, Deep South Humanities Center Planning Committee, 2009-2010

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

Department/Program Committee Service

Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Sociology Positions (two positions), 2016-

2017

Member, Steering Committee of the City, Culture, and Community (CCC) Graduate Program.

Fall 2010 – present

Lead Author, Self-Study for the City, Culture, and Community (CCC) Graduate Program. Ph.D.

Program Review, Fall 2015

Chair, Search Committee for the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professorship in Human

Relations, 2013 – 2014

Member, Vision Subcommittee, Department of Sociology, Fall 2012

Member, Ad Hoc Grievance Committee, Department of Sociology, Fall 2012

Member, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACs) Capstone Assessment

Committee, Department of Sociology, 2009 – 2012

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

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

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


Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 2001-2005

Faculty Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 1997-2005

Faculty Member, Salary Committee, Department of Sociology, 2004-2005

Faculty Director, Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha Chapter of Louisiana. International Sociology

Honor Sociology, 1999-2005

Member, Social Theory Examination Committee, Department of Sociology, 1998-2005 (Chair,

Social Theory Examination Committee, 2000-2001)

Directed Student Learning and Advising:

Ph.D. Committees (Chair)

Isaac Freitas (2016-present)

Catherine Irvine (2014-present)

Wes Cheek (2016-2019)

Clare Cannon (2015-2017)

Farrah Gafford (2008)

Jay Arena (2007) (co-chair with Martha Huggins)

Ph.D. Committees (Member)

Brittany (Tait) Kellogg (2018-present)

Heidi Schmalbach (2015-present)

Lauren Ross, Temple University (2012-2016)

Jeannie Haubert (2007)

Krista Brumley (2004)

Amy Hite (2002)

Carla Hall (2001)

M.A. Committees (Chair)

Jennifer Day (2005-2006)

Andrea Wilbon (2004-2005)

M.A. Committees (Member)

Tim Haney (2004-2005)

Xiao Xiao Peng (2004-2005)

Faith Jarmon (2004-2005; Latin America Studies)

Bryan Maddox (2002-2003)

Jennifer Burczyk (1998-1999)


Ph.D. Area Exam Committees

Chloe Tucker (Chair, Fall 2018, Place Attachment)

Jesse Chanin (Chair, Spring 2018, Race, Intersectionality, and Education)

Arianna King (Chair, Fall 2017, Critical Urban Theory)

Isaac Freitas (Chair, Spring 2016, Sociology of Media)

Isaac Freitas (Chair, Fall 2015, Disasters)

Wes Cheek (Chair, Fall 2015, Critical Urban Theory)

Wes Cheek (Chair, Spring 2016, Post-Disaster Reconstruction)

Clare Cannon (2014, Political Economy and the Environment)

Bradford Powers (Fall 2014, Urban Political Ecology)

Farrah Gafford (Chair, 2003-2004)

Jessica Pardee (Chair, 2002-2003)

Carla Hall (1999-2001)

Graduate Independent Studies

Jesse Chanin (2017, Critical Urban Theory)

Arianna King (2016, Critical Urban Theory)

Lindsey Caruso (2013, Suburban Development)

Jordan Stewart (2012, Privatization of Space)

Andrea Wilbon (2005, Urban Revitalization)

Jeannie Haubert (2004, Racial Discrimination)

Jessica Pardee (2001, Housing Studies)

Jay Arena (2000, Historical Sociology)

Graduate Students Funded through External Grants

Claire Cannon (Summer 2016, Summer 2017 – funded through the National Science Foundation,

NSF).

Katie Lauve-Moon (Summer 2014, Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017 – funded

through the National Science Foundation (NSF)).

Bradford Powers (Summer 2014, Summer 2015- funded through the National Science

Foundation, NSF; Summer 2013 funded through the Louisiana Board of Regents, Pilot Funding,

Louisiana Board of Regents (LABoR))

Heidi Schmalbach (Summer 2013 – funded through the National Science Foundation, NSF)

Undergraduate Honors Theses (Director)

Ellyn Crane (2010-11, Director)

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)

Undergraduate Honors Theses (Committee Member)


Shannon Fuller (1999-2000, Psychology)

Amanda Colley (1999-2000, Anthropology)

David McConnell (1998-99, Psychology)

Marianne Fischer (1998-99, Psychology)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITY

Member and Reviewer, European Science Foundation (ESF), Community of Experts, ESF

College of Expert Reviewers, 2017-2020

Research Strategy Contributing Expert, RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for Louisiana,

Water Institute of Louisiana, 2016

Past-Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological

Association (ASA), 2016-2017

Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological


Chair-Elect, Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological


Member, American Sociological Association (ASA), ASA Task Force on the Postdoctorate,

2013-2016

Referee, Odysseus project of the Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium) (FWO), 2012

Member and Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF) / American Sociological Association

(ASA) Postdoctoral Fellowship Review Committee, 2010, 2011, 2012

Member and Reviewer, Selection Committee for the American Council of Learned Societies

(ACLS), New Faculty Fellow program, 2009 – 2014

Member, Membership Committee, Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS), American

Sociological Association (ASA), 2010-2012

Member, Robert Park Book Award Committee, Community and Urban Sociology Section

(CUSS), American Sociological Association (ASA), 2010-2011

Council Member, Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS), American Sociological


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

Proposal Reviewer and Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF)

Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) Panel, Spring 2016.

Coupled Natural and Human (CNH) Systems Panel, Spring 2014, Spring 2017

Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) Panel, Spring 2014

Sociology Program Advisory Panel. Spring 2005, Fall 2010, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring

2018, Fall 2018

Sociology Dissertation Panel. Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010,

Fall 2012, Spring 2013

Member, Editorial Board, Sociological Quarterly, 2016-present

Member, Editorial Board, Social Sciences, 2015-present

Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Tourism Cities (IJTC), 2013-2016

Book Review Editor, City and Community, 2012-2015

Member, Editorial Board, City and Community, 2009-2012

Member, Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Trauma, 2009-2012

Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 2008-2010

Deputy Editor, Sociological Quarterly, 2004-2008

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

Guest Editor, Research in Urban Sociology, Volume Six. Critical Perspectives on Urban

Redevelopment. Elsevier Press, 2000-2001

Managing Editor, Sociological Inquiry, 1993-1997

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


1991-1996

Book/Textbook Reviewer:

Book reviewer for State University of New York Press, New York University Press, Cambridge

University Press, Cornell University Press, and Oxford University Press

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

2009. Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edited by Michael Ryan and George Ritzer.

Blackwell Publications. 2009. Best New Entry Award. “Disaster Tourism.”

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


(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


(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 (Past and Present)

Member, ASIS International, 2017-present

American Sociological Association (ASA), 1992-present.

ASA Section Memberships:

Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS)

Crime, Law, and Deviance (CLD)

Sociology of Law Section


Educator Associate Member, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), 2015-2017

Urban Affairs Association (UAA), 2010-2012

Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), 1992-2002

Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), 1990-2000

American Studies Association, 1992-1997

Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), 2008-2010

Member, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, 1992-1999

Kansas Sociological Society, 1990-1997

Alpha Kappa Delta (International Sociology Honor Society), 1990-1997

President, Beta chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta, University of Kansas, 1995

Mayor's Task Force on Race Relations: Housing, Neighborhoods, Economic Development

Cluster (Mayor Emmanuel Cleaver), Kansas City, Missouri, 1996

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