Sharon Zukin
Professor
Sociology
Location: 3616 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3906
Fax: 718.951.4639
Email:
Sharon Zukin is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Zukin is the author of books on cities, culture and consumer culture, and a researcher on urban, cultural and economic change. She was Broeklundian Professor from 1996 to 2008. She received the Lynd Award for Career Achievement in urban sociology, from the American Sociological Association, and the C. Wright Mills Book Award for Landscapes of Power. She was visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam, 2010-11, and a distinguished fellow in the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center in fall 2014.
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University - 1972 (Political Science)
Areas of Expertise:
Cities; consumer society and consumer culture--especially shopping and urban change; gentrification; arts and urban economic development; ethnic diversity. Zukin's occasional blog on cities may be found at http://blog.oup.com.
Books and Publications
Hagemans, Iris, Anke Hendriks, Jan Rath and Sharon Zukin, "From Greengrocers to Cafés: Producing Social Diversity in Amsterdam." Global Cities, Local Streets. Eds. Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2015
Kasinitz, Philip and Sharon Zukin. "From 'Ghetto' to Global: Two Neighborhood Shopping Streets in New York City." Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai. Eds. Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2015
Zukin, Sharon, Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen, eds. Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2015
Zukin, Sharon, Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen. "Spaces of Everyday Diversity: The Patchwork Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets." Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai. Eds. Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2015
"Authoring the Global: Multi-Sited Research on Local Shopping Streets." Comparing Cities. Ed. Hilary Silver. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
"From Eco-Chic to Eco-Smart." Afterword to Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic. Eds. Rivke Jaffe and Bart Barendregt. Berg. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2014
"Postcard Perfect: The Big Business of City Branding," The Guardian Cities, May 6. http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/06/postcard-perfect-the-big-business-of-city-branding. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2014
"Re-imagining Civil Society: Conflict and Control in the City's Public Spaces." Public Space: Between Re-imagination and Occupation. Ed. Svetlana Hristova. Farnham, United Kingdom: Ashgate. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
"Restaurants as 'Post Racial' Spaces: Soul Food and Symbolic Eviction in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn)." Ethnologie française 44.1: 135-47. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2014
Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change, 3rd ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2014
Zukin, Sharon and Greg Smithsimon. "The City's Commons: Privatization vs. Human Rights." The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World. Eds. Thijs van Lindert and Doutje Lettinga. Amsterdam: Amnesty International Netherlands. 41-44. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2014
"Shopping." Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. Eds. Daniel Thomas Cook and J. Michael Ryan. Wiley-Blackwell. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013
"Competitive Globalization and Urban Change: The Allure of Cultural Strategies." Rethinking Global Cities: Insights From Secondary Urban Centers. Eds. Xiangming Chen and Ahmed Kanna. New York: Routledge. 17-34. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012
"Landscape of Arrogance." Contexts 11.1: 19-20. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
"Postface: From Ivy Tower to Entrepreneurial Hub." Universités et enjeux territoriaux: Une comparaison internationale de l'économie de la connaissance. Ed. Patrizia Ingallina. Paris: Septentrion. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012
"The Social Production of Urban Cultural Heritage: Identity and Ecosystem on an Amsterdam Shopping Street." City, Culture and Society 3: 281-91. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012
"Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance." The New Companion to the City. Eds. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson. Oxford: Blackwell. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Reconstructing the Authenticity of Place." Theory and Society 40: 161-65. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Reputations: Jane Jacobs." Architectural Review (http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/-reputations-jane-jacobs/8621634.article), Oct. 26. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
"The Spike Lee Effect: Re-imagining the Ghetto for Cultural Consumption." The Ghetto. Eds. Bruce Haynes and Ray Hutchison. Boulder, Colo.: Westview. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
"Turn Out the Red Lights! Change Comes to Amsterdam's Best Known Tourist Attraction." Playboy, November: 132-33. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2011
Zukin, Sharon and Laura Braslow. "The Life Cycle of New York's Creative Districts: Reflections on the Unanticipated Consequences of Unplanned Cultural Zones." City, Culture and Society 2: 131-40. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"How the City Lost Its Soul." Playboy. April. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
"Loft Living" and "Shopping." Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Ed. Ray Hutchison. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
"Prefazione" and "Spazi di consumo e autenticità: affermare (o perdere) l'identità." Nuovi scenari per l'attrattività delle città e dei territori: di battiti, progetti e strategie in contesti metropolitani mondiali. Ed. Patrizia Ingallina. Milan: Franco Angeli. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2010
"Sweat Equity for Community Gardeners." New York Daily News, Aug. 10. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2010
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2010
"Changing Landscapes of Power: Opulence and the Crisis of Authenticity." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33.2, June: 543-53. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
Zukin, Sharon, Valerie Trujillo et al. "New Retail Capital and Neighborhood Change: Boutiques and Gentrification in New York City." City and Community 8.1, March: 47-64. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009
"Consuming Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion." Cultural Studies 22.5, September: 724-48. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
"Foreword." Consuming the Entrepreneurial City: Image, Memory, Spectacle Eds. Anne M. Cronin and Kevin Hetherington. New York and London: Routledge. xi-xiii. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
"Que libertad? Que ciudad? Complejidad y contradiccion en el espacio publico urbano." Ciudades en (re)construccion: Necessidades sociales, transformacion y mejora de barrios. Coleccion Estudios, Serie Territorio, 5. Barcelona, Spain: Diputacio Barcelona. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
"Urban Culture: In Search of Authenticity." Education and Urban Life: 20 Years of Educating Cities. Ed. Eulalia Bosch. Barcelona, Spain: International Association of Educating Cities. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
"Where's the Power?" The New York 2030 Notebook. Eds. Jeff Byles and Olympia Kazi. New York: Institute for Urban Design. 44. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008
"Architecture and the Social Framework of Power." Power: Producing the Contemporary City. Eds. Christine de Baan, Joachim Declerck and Veonique Patteeuw. Rotterdam, the Netherlands: NAI Publishers. 59-68. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007
"Beware Conformity in the March of McGuggenheims." Op-ed page, Sydney Morning Herald, July 23. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2007
"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 Volume 9. Ed. George Ritzer. Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Blackwell. 4303-08. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
"Consumption." International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. Eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski. London: Routledge. 101-07. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
"David Harvey on Cities." The David Harvey Reader. Eds. Noel Castree and Derek Gregory. Oxford: Blackwell. 102-20. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006
"L'espace public: expression de divisions." Revue Urbanisme 350, September-October: 67-69. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
"Où sont passés les cafés du coin?" Ethnologie française 36.4: 749-52. (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
Zukin, Sharon, 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
Book Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places selected as common reading by Honors Circle, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, April. (Awards and Honors) 2015
Chosen as "Urban Studies Model Scholar," Urban Studies Program, Stanford University, October. (Awards and Honors) 2014
Distinguished CUNY Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative, CUNY Graduate Center, fall. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
American Sociological Association, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. With Philip Kasinitz and Xiangming Chen. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Visiting professor, University of Amsterdam, 2010-11. (Awards and Honors) 2010
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
"Brooklyn for Sale: The Price of Gentrification, A Community Town Hall" panel. Brooklyn Independent Media at BRIC House. Jan. 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2015
"Embedding the Global on Local Shopping Streets: How Cities Meet the Challenge of Migration and Gentrification." Humanities Institute, University of South Florida. Tampa, Fla., September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Global Cities, Local Shops: Creating Urban Culture, One Street at a Time." Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design. The Netherlands. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Local Shopping Streets: Globalization and Gentrification in a Changing City." Manhattan College. The Bronx, N.Y., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"New York's Creative Ecosystem." Conference of the Association for Urban Creativity. Osaka, Japan, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"New York's Creative Ecosystem: 'Imperial Project or Lively Arts?'" ARC program, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2014
"The Globalization of Local Shopping Streets: Urban Ecosystems From New York to Shanghai." Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"The Patchwork Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets: Globalization and Gentrification From New York to Shanghai." Urban Studies Program, Stanford University. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Co-organizer and presider, panel on "The Street," Research Committee 21, World Congress of the International Sociological Association. Yokohama, Japan, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
Keynote lecture, "Inequalities and Dependencies of the Creative Ecosystem: The View From New York." Conference on Cities, Culture, and Sustainability. Hamburg, Germany, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Moderator and organizer, "The Politics of the Creative Economy" panel discussion. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Panelist, "Brooklyn Transitions: History." Brooklyn Public Library. Brooklyn, N.Y., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Panelist, "Gentrification and Diversity." MAS Summit. Municipal Art Society. New York, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Panelist, "Gentrification and Inequality." CUNY Graduate Center. New York, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Panelist, "Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto." Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate Center. New York, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Panelist, "What Is Well-being, Really?" Van Alen Institute-ISSUE Project Room. New York, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Zukin, Sharon, Kristen Hackett and Maura McGee. "Mesocosms of Social Inequality: Polarized Consumption in New York City." Thematic session, Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Zukin, Sharon, Scarlett Lindeman and Laurie Hurson. "Yelp as a Language of Power: Restaurant Reviews, Race, and Gentrification." Mini-conference of ASA section on consumers and consumption. San Francisco, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Authoring the Global: Comparative Research on Local Shopping Streets in Big Cities." Conference on Comparing Cities. Brown University. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Beyond Authenticity: Local Shopping Streets in Global Cities." Uppsala University. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Corporate Power or Cultural Authenticity? Changing Urban Landscapes in the 21st Century" seminar. Hitotsubashi University. Tokyo, January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Globalization From the Ground Up: The Social Life of Local Shopping Streets." Taft Lecture, University of Cincinnati. September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Naked City" seminar. Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture Paris-Val-de-Seine. January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Shopping, Aesthetics, and Urban Space." Conference on Urban Space and Social Life. 4C5M Studio and Tongji University (Shanghai), Tongli. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Whose Heritage? Whose City?: Social Dilemmas of Cultural Heritage in the Urban Dimension." Conference on Cultural Heritage in the Metropolitan Dimension. Sao Paulo, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
Zukin, Sharon, and Philip Kasinitz. "The Social Order of the Shopping Street: Three New York Stories." Word on the Street Workshop. London School of Economics. October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Private Funds and Public Urban Missions" panelist. Conference on the Art of Being Jewish in the City." Temple University. Philadelphia, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Gentrification or Reurbanization? How to Understand Change in New York City." Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile. Santiago, January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Naked City: From Gritty to Glam in New York." Metropolis Laboratory 2012. Copenhagen, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"The Efficacy of Art to Incite Structural Change" panelist. Whitney Museum Armory Show. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"The Naked City." Edinburgh University, United Kingdom. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"The Social Production of Upscale Cosmopolitanism: Identity and Belonging on an Amsterdam Shopping Street." Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Discussant, session on Consumers and Citizenship, American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings. Denver, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Invited response to "Proposition by LaToya Ruby Frazier: FRAMEWORK: Activism, Memory, and the Social Landscape." New Museum, New York, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Session organizer and chair, Utopia or Dystopia: Comparing Cities in the Global North/Global South, American Sociological Association, Annual Meetings. Denver, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Session organizer and co-presenter, "Narratives of Change on Local Shopping Streets" and "Jane Jacobs in New York." Eastern Sociological Society. March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012
Spotlight Panel, Mini-conference on Globalization and Consumption, ASA section-in-formation on Consumers and Consumption. Denver, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
Zukin, Sharon and Philip Kasinitz. "Who Owns the Street? Everyday Diversity in New York City." Tenement Museum. New York, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"City Life" panel. Brooklyn Book Festival. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Contradictions of Urban Life: Power, Luxury and Comfort in New York City." Fudan University. Shanghai, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"From Greenwich Village to Bushwick: The Migration of New York's Creative Districts." Kings College London. January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Is There an Urban Sociology?" University of Turin, Italy. April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Jane Jacobs in NOLA: Problems of Authenticity and Reconstruction." School of Architecture, Tulane University. New Orleans, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Looking for Authenticity: Tracing Gentrification in New York City, 1980 to 2010." Think&Drink Colloquium. Department of Sociology, Humboldt University. Berlin, February. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"Roundtable on Brooklyn and Development" panelist. Kingsborough Community College. Brooklyn, N.Y., October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places." Netherlands Architecture Institute and Berlage Institute. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"The Naked City: Inventing the Authentic in Urban Change." Cities Program, London School of Economics. January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
"What Do We Do When We Do Urban Sociology?" keynote talk. Conference on Great Cities/Ordinary Lives. University of Illinois-Chicago, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Seminar presentation on public space. Erasmus University. Rotterdam, the Netherlands, January. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011
Zukin, Sharon, Philip Kasinitz and Ph.D. students. "A Tale of Two Ghettos: Aesthetics, Ownership and Identity on New York Shopping Streets." Annual meetings of the American Sociological Society. Las Vegas, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"(Found) Public Art: 11 Moments in Greenwich Village/2010." Conference on Urban Representations. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"The Invention of Authenticity: How New York Channels Its Inner Vegas." keynote speech. Meetings of the Urban History Association. Las Vegas, October. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"The Normalization of Luxury: Aesthetics and Authenticity in the Big City" keynote speech. Annual Meeting of the Association of European Schools of Planning. Helsinki, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
Keynote speaker, International Symposium on City, Culture and Society. Osaka City University. December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010
"Author Meets Critics," two sessions as critic. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. San Francisco, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Conflicting Images of Authenticity: Has the City 'Lost Its Soul?'" Conference on Urban Representations. Shanghai, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009
"Changing Landscapes of Power: Opulence and the Urge for Authenticity" keynote presentation. Annual Conference, Research Committee 21, International Sociological Association. Tokyo, December. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Destination Culture: Does Globalization Makes All Cities Look the Same?" keynote presentation. Conference on Rethinking Cities and Communities: Urban Transition Before and During the Era of Globalization. Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College. Hartford, Conn., November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
"Re-imagining Democracy: Conflict and Control in the City's Public Spaces" keynote presentation. Conference on Public Space and Social Cohesion in the City: Present and Future. INTAS/EU. St. Petersburg, Russia, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008
Discussant, session on public space. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Boston, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008
"Authentic Public Space: Between Consumption and Democracy." Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
"Can Shopping Make Us Free?" New York Society for Ethical Culture. December. (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." Riverside Theatres. Parramatta, Australia, July. (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. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007
Zukin, Sharon, Valerie Trujillo et al. "Entrepreneurial Retail Capital and the Rhetoric of Growth: Boutiques and Gentrification in New York City." Annual Meetings of the 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. Drawing the Lines Conference. Indiana University Northwestern. Gary, Ind., 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
Chair, Section on Consumers and Consumption, American Sociological Association. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014
Chair-elect, section on Consumers and Consumption, American Sociological Association. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2013
Associate editor, City and Community. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2012
Chairwoman, Lynd Award Committee, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2011
Associate editor, City and Community. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010
Associate editor, City and Community. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009
Chairwoman, Editorial Search Committee, City & Community. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008
