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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 2000; M.A. in Sociology, UC Berkeley, 1996; B.A. in History and Sociology, Brown University, 1992.

Research Interests: Urban sociology, climate change, social connection, and public spaces.

Appointments: Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University; Director, Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU.

Publications: Author, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality (Crown, 2018); Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Additional Contributions: Contributor to The New Yorker; Host, Democracy Works podcast, 2025.