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Sharon Zukin

Professor   Department: Sociology   Location: 3606 James Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x1763   Fax: 718-951-4639   Email:

Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University Graduate Center; author of books on cities, culture, and consumer culture; researcher on urban, cultural, and economic change. Broeklundian Professor 1996-2008. Lynd Award for Career Achievement in urban sociology, American Sociological Association. C. Wright Mills Book Award for LANDSCAPES OF POWER. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 1972 (POLITICAL SCIENCE) Areas of Expertise: Consumer society and consumer culture--especially shopping Urban change--gentrification, arts and economic development, ethnic diversity. Books and Publications (with Valerie Trujillo et al.,) New Retail Capital and Neighborhood Change: Boutiques and Gentrification in New York City, City and Community 8, 1 (March 2009): 47-64. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 Changing Landscapes of Power: Opulence and the Crisis of Authenticity, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33, 2 (June 2009): 543-53. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance, in The New Companion to the City, ed. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming) (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 "Foreword," in Consuming the Entrepreneurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle, ed. Anne M. Cronin and Kevin Hetherington (New York and London: Routledge, 2008), pp. xi-xiii. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 "Que libertad? Que ciudad? Complejidad y contradiccion en el espacio publico urbano," in Ciudades en (re)construccion: Necessidades sociales, transformacion y mejora de barrios, Coleccion Estudios, Serie Territorio, 5 (Barcelona: Diputacio Barcelona, 2008). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 "Where's the Power?" in The New York 2030 Notebook, ed. Jeff Byles and Olympia Kazi (Institute for Urban Design, New York, 2008), p. 44. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 Consuming Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion, Cultural Studies 22, 5 (September 2008): 724-48. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Urban Culture: In Search of Authenticity, in Education and Urban Life: 20 Years of Educating Cities, ed. Eulalia Bosch (Barcelona: International Association of Educating Cities, 2008). (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 "Reading The Urban Villagers as a Cultural Document: Ethnicity, Modernity, and Capital," City and Community 6: 39-48. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 "Shopping," Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer (Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell, vol. 9, pp. 4303-4308). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Architecture and the Social Framework of Power, in Power: Producing the Contemporary City, ed. Christine de Baan, Joachim Declerck, and Veonique Patteeuw (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2007), pp. 59-68. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007 Beware Conformity in the March of McGuggenheims, Op-Ed Page, Sydney Morning Herald, July 23, 2007. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007 "L'espace public: expression de divisions," Revue Urbanisme, no. 350, September-October, pp. 67-69. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 "Consumption," International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, ed. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski (London: Routledge), pp. 101-107. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 "David Harvey on Cities," in The David Harvey Reader, ed. Noel Castree and Derek Gregory (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 102-20. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 "Où sont passés les cafés du coin?," Ethnologie française 36, 4: 749-752. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 "Blockbuster Mall: How to See Time Warner Center." Contexts 4(1): 60-63. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "Fearing Fear Itself." Currents section. New York Newsday, July 31. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 "To Shop, Perchance to Dream." Perspective section. Newark Star-Ledger, April 17. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005 Sharon Zukin, Gina Neff, and Betsy Wissinger. "Entrepreneurial Labor Among Cultural Producers: 'Cool' Jobs in 'Hot' Industries," Social Semiotics 15: 307-34. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 Awards, Honors and Fellowships Gould Fellowship, Ecole Normale Superieure-Jourdan (Paris), April. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Lynd Award for career achievement in urban sociology, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Assocation. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Visiting Professor, University of Western Sydney (Australia), summer. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums Author Meets Critics, two sessions as critic, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 Invited presentation, "Conflicting Images of Authenticity: Has the City 'Lost Its Soul?'" Conference on Urban Representations, Shanghai, March 2009. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 Discussant, session on public space, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, August 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008 Keynote presentation, "Changing Landscapes of Power: Opulence and the Urge for Authenticity," Annual Conference, Research Committee 21, International Sociological Association, Tokyo, December 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Keynote presentation, "Destination Culture: Does Globalization Makes All Cities Look the Same?" Conference on Rethinking Cities and Communities: Urban Transition Before and During the Era of Globalization, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, November 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Keynote presentation, "Re-Imagining Democracy: Conflict and Control in the City's Public Spaces," Conference on Public Space and Social Cohesion in the City: Present and Future, INTAS/EU, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 Authentic Public Space: Between Consumption and Democracy, Research Seminar Presentation, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, July 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 Can Shopping Make Us Free? New York Society for Ethical Culture, December 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 Consuming Authenticity: Espace de consommation, affirmation ou perte d'identité ?, Séminaire PUCA (Plan Urbanisme Construction et Architecture)- Université Paris XII, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 Destination Culture: The Crisis of Authenticity in Contemporary Cities, Public Lecture, Riverside Theatres, Parramatta (Australia), July 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 Talk Show (Conversation with real estate developer Jed Walentas), Center for Urban Pedagogy, Anthology Film Archives, New York, November 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 With Valerie Trujillo et al., Entrepreneurial Retail Capital and the Rhetoric of Growth: Boutiques and Gentrification in New York City, Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, New York, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Standardization and Authenticity in Cultural Strategies of Redevelopment, keynote lecture, Conference Drawing the Lines, Indiana University Northwestern, Gary, Indiana, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006 Digitizing Tuscany: How Modes of Perception Shape the Shopping Experience,Conference on Cities, Media, and Digital Technology, Northwestern University, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006 Thematic symposium on The Arts in Globalizing Cities, World Congress of Sociology, Durban (South Africa), July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006 Professional Leadership Associate editor, City and Community (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009 Chair, Editorial Search Committee, City & Community. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008