Curriculum Vitae

This is my curriculum vitae, which lists my education, areas of interest, work history, and publications.

• For my most up-to-date and downloadable C.V. visit my academia.edu page.
• For a descriptive summary of my research interests, go here.

Education

• State University of New York at Binghamton
  • Ph.D. Sociology, 2009
    • Dissertation: “Landscapes of Spanish-Colonial Revival: Visual Culture & Urban Development in Southern California”
  • M.A. Sociology, 2005
• University of California, Irvine
  • B.A. History, 2002
  • B.A. Sociology, 2002
  • Minor – Digital Arts

Areas of Interest

• Cultural Studies & Popular Culture
• Environmental Sociology
• Historical Sociology
• Global Cities
• Urban Studies
• Science & Technology

Positions

• Full time positions
  • 2018 – Present: Professor of Sociology in Department of Anthropology & Sociology @ Kutztown University (PA)
  • 2015 – 2018: Associate Professor @ Kutztown University (PA)
  • 2010 – 2015: Assistant Professor @ Kutztown University (PA)
  • 2009 – 2010: Visiting Assistant Professor @ Delaware County Community College (PA)
• Other positions
  • 2014: July: Visiting Lecturer @ University of Gondar (Gondar, Ethiopia)
  • 2013: June-July: Visiting Summer Asst. Professor @ Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Turkey)
  • 2009: Spring: Adjunct / Part Time Instructor @ Syracuse University (NY)
  • 2004 – 2008: Teaching Assistant / Adjunct instructor @ SUNY Binghamton (NY)

Publications (Additional links can be found on my Google Scholar page)

• Books
  • (2022) Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism  https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/risky-cities/9781978820302
• Journal Articles
  • (2022) “Can buildings be racist? A critical sociology of architecture and the built environment” Sociological Inquiry. DOI: 10.1111/soin.12478
  • (2020) “Mediterranean Style Gated Communities Around the World: Architecture, Globalization and Transnational Elites” City and Community. Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 421-442 DOI: 10.1111/cico.12447
  • (2018) w/ Jason Crockett, Joleen Greenwood, and Mauricia John. “Sociology Portfolio Assessment and Curricular Review” Teaching Sociology. Vol. 46. No 1. pp. 34-43. DOI: 10.1177/0092055X17726833
  • (2017) w/ Martin J Murray. “Sentimentalizing Racial Reconciliation in the ‘New South Africa’: Invictus and the Cinematic Representation of the 1995 Rugby World Cup.” Black Camera Vol. 9. No. 1. pp. 22-46. DOI: 10.2979/blackcamera.9.1.02
  • (2016) “Connecting Urban and Environmental Catastrophe: Linking Natural Disaster, the Built Environment, and Capitalism.” Environmental Sociology. Vol. 2. No 4. pp. 365-374. DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2016.1220891
  • (2016) “Neoliberalism, logistics and the treadmill of production in metropolitan waste management: A case of Turkish firms.” Urban Studies. DOI: 0042098015586537.
  • (2015) Fear of a Black Spider-Man: Racebending and the Colour-Line in Super Hero (Re)Casting.” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Vol. 6. No. 3. pp. 267-283 DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2014.994647
  • (2014) w/ Utku Balaban. “Politics of Urban Development and Wildfires in California and Turkey.” Environment & Planning A. Vol. 46. No 4. pp. 820-836. DOI: 10.1068/a46163
  • (2014) w/ Martin J. Murray. “Glorified Fantasies and Masterpieces of Deception: Importing Las Vegas into the New South Africa.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Vol. 38. No. 3. pp. 843-863.  DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12006
  • (2013) “The Façade of Safety in California’s Shelter-In-Place Homes: History, Wildfire and Social Consequence.” Critical Sociology. Vol 39. No 6. pp. 833-849. DOI: 10.1177/0896920512455936
  • (2012) “Materializing Spanish-Colonial Revival: The Historical Landscape and Cultural Production in Southern California.” Home Cultures. Vol. 9. No. 2. pp. 149-172. DOI: 10.2752/175174212X13325123562223
  • (2011) “Contradictions in California’s Orientalist Landscape: Architecture, History & Spanish-Colonial Revival.” Cities. Vol. 28. No. 4. pp. 240-346. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2010.09.003
  • (2007) w/ Martin J. Murray. “Cinema and the Edgy City: Johannesburg, Carjacking, and the Postmetropolis.” African Identities. Vol. 5. No. 2. pp. 279-289. DOI: 10.1080/14725840701403606
• Book Chapters
  • (2016) “Chapter 35: Wildfire and Global Urban Development: Climate Change and Disaster as Blowback” in P. Godfrey & D. Torres (eds.) Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender (New York: Routledge). pp. 225-232.
  • w/ Martin J. Murray. (2008). “Chapter 9: Cinema and the Edgy City: Johannesburg, Carjacking, and the Postmetropolis.” In Fassil Demissie (ed.). Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament (New York: Routledge). pp. 121-130.
• Book Reviews
  • (2018) “Waste Away” Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 47. No. 1. pp. 105-107. DOI: 10.1177/0094306117744805jj
  • (2016) “The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice” Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 45. No. 4. pp. 475-476. doi:10.1177/0094306116653953nn
  • (2013). “The New Century of the Metropolis: Urban Enclaves and Orientalism.” Planning Perspectives. Vol. 28, No. 4. pp. 646-648. DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2013.828461
  • (2012). “Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph.” Visual Studies. Vol. 27, No. 2. pp. 213-214. DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2012.642973
  • (2009). “The Los Angeles Plaza.” Southern California Quarterly. Vol. 91, No 1. pp. 121-22. DOI: 10.2307/41172461
  • (2008). “Lynching in the West 1850-1935.” Visual Studies. Vol. 23, No. 2. p. 179. DOI:10.1080/14725860802276339