Sociology
Naomi Braine
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Brooklyn College
3103 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-5000 x1775
nbraine@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Having worked in the nonprofit health and policy research sector, conducting research on HIV risk and prevention, and consulting for community-based organizations and the New York State Department of Health, Naomi Braine has been engaged in substantial research of the New York City boroughs. The majority of her data collection on past projects has taken place in Manhattan and the Bronx, although a current study includes interviews with Brooklynites. She has focused primarily on drug use and HIV/AIDS, collected data at syringe exchange programs, methadone maintenance programs, community-based organizations serving LGBT communities, and through recruitment in a wide range of public community venues. She is currently engaged in the final stages of a study of how gay male communities in NYC mobilized in response to increasing use of the drug crystal meth over the past 5-6 years.
Books and publications about Brooklyn/New York City in the last 5 years:
- Braine, N., Acker, C. van Sluytman, L., Friedman, S. and DesJarlais, DC (in press) “Drug use, community action and public health: gay men and crystal meth in NYC.” Substance Use and Misuse. R
- Braine, N., van Sluytman, L. Acker, C. Friedman, and DesJarlais, DC (forthcoming) “Money, drugs and bodies: examining exchange sex in multiple contexts and perspectives.” Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services R
- Des Jarlais, DC, Braine, N, and Friedman, P. “Unstable Housing as a Factor for Increased Injection Risk Behavior at US Syringe Exchange Programs.” AIDS and Behavior, Suppl. 2, Nov. R 2007
- Des Jarlais, DC, Braine, N., Yi, H. and Turner, C. “Residual risk behavior, HIV infection, and the evaluation of syringe exchange programs.” AIDS Education and Prevention vol 19 (2) R 2007
- Braine, N., DesJarlais, DC, Goldblatt, C., Zadoretsky, C., and Turner, C. “Patterns of Sexual Commerce Among Women at US Syringe Exchange Programs.” Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol 8(4) R 2006
- Evaluation of Overdose Prevention at Methadone Maintenance. Policy report submitted to the New York State Dept of Health, AIDS Institute Policy reports submitted to NY State Dept of Health, AIDS Institute 2008
- Factors Shaping Implementation of Overdose Prevention in Drug Treatment. Policy report submitted to the New York State Dept of Health, AIDS Institute 2008
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Jerome Krase
Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor
Sociology
3612 James Hall
Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-4314
jkrase@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Jerome Krase's Website
Jerome Krase has engaged in decades-long scholarly research as well as participatory community organizing and other action-research on the changing character of Brooklyn neighborhoods. He is currently working on 'the Clove Road historic public site project' for Community District 9. The goal of the project is to have the site declared a historical landmark and build a small park and informational monument there for the role Clove Road played in the battle of Brooklyn. His research methodologies and analyses include visual sociology, demography, ethnography, interview and mapping. He is currently on the board of the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation and the American Italian Coalition of Organizations. In the past, Krase was on the board of TAMKEEN, an Arab-American community organization which has been merged with the Arab American Family Support Center on Court Street, Brooklyn.
Books and publications about Brooklyn/New York City in the last 5 years:
- "Italian Americans and College Life: A Survey of Student Experiences at Brooklyn College," (1975) reprinted in Italian-American Students in New York City, 1975-2000: A Research Anthology, edited by Nancy L. Ziehler, New York: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2011. With Vincent J. Fuccillo.: 17- 47.
- "Italian American Female College Students: A New Generation Connected to the Old," (1978) reprinted in Italian-American Students in New York City, 1975-2000: A Research Anthology, edited by Nancy L. Ziehler, New York: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2011: 49- 55.
- "Educational Attainment and Educational Values of Italian American Generations," (1986) reprinted in Italian-American Students in New York City, 1975-2000: A Research Anthology, edited by Nancy L. Ziehler, New York: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2011: 87- 112.
- “Diversity and Urban living: Ethnic Crossroads - Visualizing Urban Narratives,” Orte der Diversität: Formate, Arrangements und Inszenierungen. Edited by Cristina Allemann-Ghionda / Wolf-Dietrich Bukow, Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verlag, 2010: 93-112.
- “The Jordan Family as a Worm’s Eye View of Machine Politics,” in Small Towns, Big Cities: The Urban Experience of Italian Americans, edited by Dennis Barone and Stefano Luconi. New York: American Italian Historical Association, 2010: 35-51.
- “A Visual Approach to Multiculturalism,” in Beyond Multiculturalism edited by Giuliana Prato, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2009: 1-38.
- “Contested Terrains: Visualizing Globalization in Global Cities” in Home, Migration, and the City: Spatial Forms and Practices in a Globalizing World,” edited by Ayona Datta, Open House International, 34,3, 2009: 65-73.
- "Sucesion etnica en Little & Big Italy," Bifurcaciones, Revista de Estudios Culturales Urbanos, número 008 de bifurcaciones
- "La trasformazione delle Little Italy di New YorkCity", in Simona Capellari and Giorgio Colombo (eds), Letteratura Italoamericana, QUADERNI del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi., Verona: Edizioni Fiorini, 2008: 136-42.
- “Community Needs Assessment, New York City’s Arab American Community,” TAMKEEN
The Center for Arab American Empowerment, July, 2007, with Suzanne Nicoletti-Krase, and Kathryn Krase. - Brooklyn Rising: The 70s and 80s, The Roots of Modern Brooklyn, Exhibition Catalogue and Program Scripts, Brooklyn College, BC Library Archives and Special Collections, Wolfe Institute, and the Center for the Study of Brooklyn, Spring 2007.
- “Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little and Big Italy,” in Encountering Urban Places: Visual and Material Performances in the City," edited by Lars Meier and Lars Frers, Aldershot/UK: Ashgate, 2007: 97-118.
- “Ethnic Crossroads: Toward a Theory of Immigrant Global Neighborhoods,” in Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. Volume Eight. Research in Urban Sociology, edited by Ray Hutchinson and Jerome Krase. Elsevier/JAI Press, 2007. With Tarry Hum: 97-119.
- “Visualizing Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes in American Cities,” in Community and Ecology: Dynamics of Place, Sustainability, and Politics, edited by Aaron M. McCright and Terry N. Clark. Elsevier/JAI Press, 2006: 63-84.
- “Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little Italy: Change despite Resistance” Modern Italy, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2006: 79-95.
- "Italian American Urban Landscapes: Images of Social and Cultural Capital." in Varieties of Urban Experience: The American City and the Practice of Culture, edited by Michael Ian Borer. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2006: 155-80.
- "Poland and Polonia: Gentrification as ethnic aesthetic practice and migratory process." In Gentrification in Global Perspective, edited by Rowland Atkinson and Gary Bridges. London: Routledge, 2005: 185-208.
- “The Visual Presentation of Community: What Does Community Look Like?” in Senses of Place: Urban Narratives as Public Secrets, edited by Robert Chapman, Pace University Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies (PIERS), Volume 4, 2005: 151-75.
- “Brooklyn! An Illustrated History,” by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier REV H-NET Book Review, H-Urban, 2005.
- "Mall Wonder." Viz.
- "The Magic Bus." Voice of America News.com
- "Hear Every Voice" National Park Service documentary about Krase’s visual sociology course on immigrant outreach.
Kenneth Gould
Chairperson
Sociology
Brooklyn College
3612 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-5314
kgould@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Professor and chairperson of the Sociology Department at Brooklyn College, Kenneth Gould is also professor of sociology and earth and environmental sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work focuses on the political economy of environment, technology and development, and is best known for its contribution to the development of the Treadmill of Production model of socioenvironmental dynamics. He has published numerous articles examining the responses of communities to environmental problems, the role of socioeconomic inequality in environmental conflicts and the impacts of economic globalization on efforts to achieve sustainable development trajectories. He is co-author of Environment and Society: The Enduring Conflict, Local Environmental Struggles, The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy and Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology. His current research is focused on green gentrification in Brooklyn, using case studies of Prospect Park, Williamsburg-Greenpoint, Gowanus Canal and the Columbia Street Waterfront.
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Tamara Mose Brown
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Brooklyn College
3103 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-5000 x1772
tbrown@brooklyn.cuny.edu
An Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, Tamara Mose Brown’s research focuses on race and ethnicity, urban communities, ethnographic methods and Caribbean migration. She has studied West Indian childcare providers and how they use public spaces in gentrifying Brooklyn. Brown is also beginning a new project that will look at aging Jamaicans that live primarily in Brooklyn.
Books and publications about Brooklyn/New York City in the last 5 years:
- Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community. New York: New York University Press, January 2011 (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2011
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Timothy Shortell
Associate Professor
Sociology
Brooklyn College
3501 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-5000 x1762
shortell@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Timothy Shortell's Website
Trained as a social psychologist and research methodologist/statistician, Timothy Shortell is a Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the author of a content coding software application, SemioCode. At the CUNY Honors Academy, he is working to develop a seminar on urban neighborhoods that will include people from CUNY and beyond, much of which is focused on Brooklyn. Shortell also studies the visual semiotics of immigrant neighborhoods and is currently working on a comparative study of Brooklyn and Paris. His research also includes visual studies of ethnically vernacular neighborhoods within the borough. His methodologies and analyses of research include visual sociology and spatial semiotics.
Books and publications about Brooklyn/New York City in the last 5 years:
- T. Shortell and J. Krase, Seeing Difference: Spatial Semiotics of Ethnic and Class Identity in Global Cities. In press at Visual Communication.
- J. DeSena and T. Shortell (eds), Brooklyn in the World, the World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City. Book manuscript in preparation.
- J. Krase and T. Shortell. Seeing Everyday Multiculturalism. Paper presented at the IUAES Inter-Congress in Antalya, Turkey. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
- T. Shortell and J. Krase. Place, Space, Identity: A Spatial Semiotics of the Urban Vernacular in Global Cities. Paper presented at the ESA Sociology of Culture mid-term conference, Milan, Italy. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
- T. Shortell and J. Krase. Seeing Islam in Global Cities: A Spatial Semiotic Analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
- T. Shortell and J. Krase, On the Visual Semiotics of Collective Identity in Urban Vernacular Spaces. Paper presented at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
- "Brooklyn in a Global Context: Ethnicity and Class Differences in Urban Neighborhoods" at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010
- J. Krase and T. Shortell. Visualizing Glocalization: Semiotics of Ethnic and Class Differences in Global Cities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
- T. Shortell & J. Krase. Spatial Semiotics of Difference in Urban Vernacular Neighborhoods. Paper presented at the 9th European Sociological Association Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
- T. Shortell. Brooklyn and Belleville: a Case Study of the Visual Semiotics of Ethnic Identity in Two Diverse Urban Neighborhoods. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Visual Sociology Association, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
- J. Krase and T. Shortell. Visualizing Glocalization: Changing Images of Ethnic Vernacular Neighborhoods in Global Cities. Paper presented at the First ISA Forum of Sociology, Barcelona, Spain. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
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Alex Vitale
Associate Professor
Sociology
Brooklyn College
3101 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 951-5000 x1774
avitale@brooklyn.cuny.edu
An Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, Alex Vitale’s research has included community policing, the policing of demonstrations and civil disorder, urban politics and economics and social movements. Each semester, Vitale teaches a seminar on Crime in Brooklyn in which students do research in their own Brooklyn neighborhoods by attending Community Board and Community Police Precinct Council meetings. His past work involved a case study on East New York, which appears in City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics. NYU Press. 2008. Among other organizations, Vitale has worked with the Correctional Association of New York.
Books and publications about Brooklyn/New York City in the last 5 years:
- "Policing Protests in New York City in Urbanization, Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives.” Gary Cordner and Dilip K. Das eds. Boca Raton. FL.: Taylor and Francis. p. 275-300. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009
- Vitale, Alex S. 2008. City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics. NYU Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008
- Vitale, Alex S. (contributor). 2005. "Rights and Wrongs at the RNC: A Special Report about Police and Protest at the Republican National Convention." New York: NY Civil Liberties Union. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
- Vitale, Alex S. 2005 "From Negotiated Management to Command and Control: How the New York Police Department Polices Protests." Policing and Society 15: 283-304. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
- Vitale, Alex S. 2005 "Innovation and Institutionalization; Factors in the Development of 'Quality of Life' Policing in New York City." Policing and Society 15: 99-124. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
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Sharon Zukin
Professor
Sociology
Brooklyn College
3606 James Hall
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718) 951-5000 x1763
zukin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
A Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, Sharon Zukin’s research has focused on consumer society and culture, urban change, gentrification, arts and economic development and ethnic diversity. She recently published a book which focuses in part on redevelopment in Brooklyn, especially in the hipster neighborhood of Williamsburg, and also on community gardens in East New York. A visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam in 2010-11, Professor Zukin is continuing to do research on local shopping streets with a research site in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Books and publications about Brooklyn/New York City in the last 5 years:
- Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). (Books and Publications: Book) 2010
- “The Spike Lee Effect: Re-imagining the Ghetto for Cultural Consumption,” in The Ghetto Reader, ed. Bruce D. Haynes and Ray Hutchison (Boulder CO: Westview, forthcoming)
- "How the City Lost Its Soul," Playboy magazine, April 2010 (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010
- "Loft living," "shopping," in Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, ed. Ray Hutchison (Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, 2010) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
- (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
- 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
- "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
- “Fearing Fear Itself.” Currents section. New York Newsday, July 31. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005
Sharon Zukin's Brooklyn College Faculty Profile
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