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Kelly Britt, Anthropology

• Affiliations - CUNY GC
• Research Areas - Urban Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology
• Faculty Bio

Professor Britt is currently interested in two areas of research: 1) exploring the intersection of activism and materiality, and 2) heritage management seen both locally and globally. She is currently working with the United Order of Tents Eastern District, #3 the oldest Black women's benevolent society in the United States, whose headquarters in located in a 19th-century mansion in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and the Flatbush African Burial Ground, to preserve, protect, and honor those once buried there.

Donna Granville, Sociology

• Affiliations - Center for Teaching and Learning
• Research Areas - Race and ethnicity, Sociology of Hip Hop, Afro-Caribbean Immigration to the United States
• Faculty Bio

Miriam Deutch, Library

• Research Areas - Open Educational Resources, Digital Humanities, Digital Scholarship
• Faculty Bio

Joshua (Zhongqi) Cheng, Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Research Areas - Urban Soils, Green Infrastructure, Urban Sustainability
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Dan Shtob, Sociology and Urban Sustainability

• Affiliations - Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Grad Center
• Research Areas - Environmental Sociology, Natural Hazards
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Timothy Shortell, Sociology

• Affiliations - Data Analysis and Visualization, Graduate Center
• Research Areas - Critical Data Studies, Visual Sociology
• Faculty Bio

Everyday Globalization: A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris. Routledge, 2016. Visual sociological study of religious, linguistic, and ethnic minorities in urban spaces and how the appearance of neighborhoods contributes to belonging and, in some cases, group conflicts.

Malka Simon, Art

• Affiliations - Center for Teaching and Learning
• Research Areas - Brooklyn Architecture and Landscape. Special focus on industrial and vernacular landscapes, and on Outer Borough identity as expressed through the built environment.
• Faculty Bio

Kenneth Gould, Sociology

• Affiliations - Urban Sustainability
• Research Areas - Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Sustainable Development
• Faculty Bio

"Green Gentrification and the Struggle for Environmental Justice explores the social consequences of urban ""greening"" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. https://www.routledge.com/Green-Gentrification-Urban-sustainability-and-the-struggle-for-environmental/Gould-Lewis/p/book/9781138309135 New Project: Problematizing states’ public investments post-disaster: the case of massive public investment in Rockaway Beach post-hurricane Sandy. (Technically in Queens until we redraw the maps)"

Lucas G. Rubin, Graduate Center Worker Education / Classics

• Affiliations - Assistant Dean for Academic Programs, Director of the Graduate Center for Worker Education, Director of the Latin/Greek Institute
• Research Areas - Brooklyn Sports (especially pre-1898), Topography

Gregory Smithsimon, Sociology

• Affiliations - CUNY Graduate Center, Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay
• Research Areas - Urban Sociology, Communities, Disasters
• Faculty Bio

Part of an interdisciplinary team studying and mapping rainfall flooding, particularly with basement apartments and businesses in vulnerable areas in New York City.

Tammy Lewis, Sociology

• Affiliations - Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center
• Research Areas - Urban Sustainability, Climate Adaptation, Green Gentrification
• Faculty Bio

Green Gentrification in Brooklyn, Climate Adaptation in Rockaway

Emily Tumpson Molina, Sociology

• Affiliations - Urban Sustainability, CUNY GC Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences program
• Research Areas - Housing, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Critical Data Analytics
• Faculty Bio

A People's Guide to New York City with fellow CUNY professors Carolina Bank Munoz and Penny Lewis (U of California Press, 2022) and Housing America: Issues and Debates (Routledge, 2017).