Community and Urban Sociology

The ASA Community and Urban Sociology Section is pleased to announce a one-day conference on Inequalities and Social Justice in the 21st Century City to be held on Friday, August 9, 2019 at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. Below is the exciting program for the conference.

At present we are not charging a registration fee now but may begin to charge for registrations after the first 120 participants or after July 26.

NOTE: WE ARE AT CAPACITY AND THUS FURTHER REGISTRATIONS WILL BE ADDED TO OUR WAITLIST. IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED AND CAN NO LONGER ATTEND, PLEASE INFORM US: cuss2019conference@gmail.com

We also encourage all participants to become CUSS members.

Preconference on Inequalities and Social Justice in the 21st Century City
NYU Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service
295 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012
August 9, 2019

Please register here

9- 10:30am		Plenary panel on Real Utopias and the City: A Discussion on Social Justice and Inequality in Practice
		Featuring Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson, and Stephanie Luce
10:45-12:15		Morning Session 1: Urban social movements
		Challenging Urban Inequality: The Fight for $15 and Local Governance of Low-Wage Labor	Chris Rhomberg	Fordham University
		Rethinking Community Politics: Conceptualizing and Theorizing the Power, Politics, and Political Efficacy of Community-based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Systems	C. Michael Awsumb	Southern Illinois University
		“Occupy, Resist, Produce!”: How Politics Shape Alternative Organizations in the Neoliberal City	Katherine Sobering	University of North Texas
		Where is the Migrant Laborer in the New York Food Movement? The Efforts of Brandworkers to Bring Visibility to Migrant Laborers	Ivana Mellers	The CUNY Graduate Center
		Morning Session 2: Race and ethnic inequality
		How is the Majority Rendered Invisible: Immigrants and Minorities in New York City	Ernesto Castañeda	American University
		The Socio-Spatial Production of Marginality and the Processes of Differential Inclusion	Lisa Reber	Arizona State University
		Crossing the Color Line in the 21st Century: Mortgaging Increasingly Diverse Neighborhoods	Meghan M. O’Neil	University of Michigan
		The Impacts of Residential Integration on School Race and Ethnic Composition	Ankit Rastogi	University of Wisconsin-Madison
		Morning Session 3: Gentrification and Economic Change
		Growing for Profit and Social Changes: Urban Growers as Social Entrepreneurs in a Gentrifying City	Yuki Kato	Georgetown University
		Are Gentrification and Displacement Different Across Cities? Exploring the Effects of Urban Regimes	H. Jacob Carlson	University of Wisconsin-Madison
		Gentrification and Education: Evidence from New York City	S. Sana Fatima	New York University
		The Paradox of Housing Conditions: Gentrification, Code Violations, and The Politics of Growth in New York City	Sara Duvisac, Avigail Vantu, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Nicole Summers	New York University
		Morning Session 4: Flash session – Neighborhood Inequality (Each presenter will give a 5-minute, roughly 5-slide presentation. Authors will be available for further discussion following the presentations.)
		Age Incongruity in Racially Integrated Neighborhoods	Christina Nelson	New York University
		“I Thought This was a Ghost Neighborhood” Tradeoffs Between Safety and Social Ties for Children Moving from City to Suburb	Allison Young	Johns Hopkins University
		Place, Context, and Confidence in the American Dream	Rachel Wildfeuer	Temple University
		How Context Mediates the Intergenerational Transmission of Skills: Disentangling Neighborhood Socio-demographics and Social Conditions	Jared Schachner	Harvard University
		Cultivating a Catholic Neighborhood: Space, Place, and Subcultural Identity in a Gentrifying Municipality	Audra Dugandzic	University of Notre Dame
		Renting the West Side: Two-Flat Landlords in Chicago’s Low-Income Neighborhoods	Allison Suppan Helmuth	University of Illinois at Chicago
12:30-1:30		LUNCH CATERED ON-SITE
1:45-3:15		Afternoon Session 1: Gentrification and racial inequality
		Racial Inequality and Gentrification in U.S. Cities, 1980-2017	Elaina Johns-Wolfe	University of Cincinnati
		Racial Inequality Between Gentrifiers: How the Race of Gentrifiers Affects Retail Development in Gentrifying Neighborhoods	Mahesh Somashekhar	University of Illinois at Chicago
		How the News Racializes American Gentrification	Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana	New York University
		Reconceptualizing the Sociology of Gentrification in and of the Global South	Melissa M. Valle	Rutgers University–Newark
		Afternoon Session 2: Markets and Urban Inequality
		Social Structure of the Informal Housing Market	Christine Jang-Trettien	Johns Hopkins University
		Accounting for Accountability: Non-meritocratic Evaluations, City Credit Ratings, and Urban Inequality	Davon N. Norris	The Ohio State University
		The State of Evictions During the Affordability Crisis: Measuring Prevalence and Disparate Impact through Machine Learning on Court Records	Tim Thomas, Ott Toomet, Ian Kennedy, Alex Ramiller	University of Washington
		Locking in Urban Transformation through Organizational Experiments	Nate Ela	American Bar Foundation
		Afternoon Session 3: The New Urban Sociology, Inequality, and Social Change
		The New Urban Sociology	Mark Gottdeiner	SUNY-Buffalo
		The New Urban Sociology and Social Movements	Randolph Hohle	SUNY-Fredonia
		The Commodification of Land and a Theory of Social Transformation	Lipon Mondal	Virginia Tech University
		Afternoon Session 4: Housing and Landscape Inequality in the City
		The Housing Divide as a Social Structure	Marco Garrido	University of Chicago
		The Housing Crisis, Generalized: Housing Affordability for the Middle Class	Kasey Zapatka	The CUNY  Graduate Center
		Agrarianization of South African Cities: Alternatives from Below to the Legacies of Apartheid	Ricardo Jacobs	Johns Hopkins University
		Landscape Change, But For Whom? Tracking Land Cover Changes and Social Inequalities in Greater Houston	Kevin T. Smiley	University of Buffalo
3:30-5		Afternoon Session 5: Marginality and Spatial Stigma
		Improving Care for Elders Who Prefer Informal Spaces to Age-Separated Institutions and Healthcare Settings	Stacy Torres, Xuemei Cao	University of California, San Francisco; University of Albany, SUNY
		Democracy, Inclusion, and the “Right to the City” in Urban Street Bands	Meghan E. Kallman	University of Massachusetts-Boston
		How does Lead Poisoning Contribute to Urban Inequality?	Matthew H. McLeskey	University of Buffalo
		Decoupled Displacement: Geographic and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity Among Students Displaced by School Closure	Kiara Millay Nerenberg	Johns Hopkins University
		Afternoon Session 6: Crime, Criminal Justice, and Urban Inequality
		Criminal Records and Access to Rental Housing: A Field Experiment	Laura DeMarco	Ohio State University
		From Murder Capital to Cappuccino City: Crime, Black Displacement, and Gentrification in the Nation’s Capital	Tanya Golash-Boza, Hyunsu Oh	University of California, Merced
		The Pipeline From Prison to Jail: An Examination of Parole Supervision	Chloe Haimson	University of Wisconsin-Madison
		Were Latino Communities Safer Than Others? Some Surprising Findings from San Antonio	Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Keller Sheppard	Northeastern University
		Afternoon Session 7: Urban Policy Experiments and Inteventions
		Employing a Multi-Stakeholder Framework in Designing Smart Cities in Tennessee	Cristina del-Real, Chandra Ward, Mina Sartipi	University of Cadiz, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
		Effects of Direct Urban Climate Lending on Emissions Reduction in World Cities: New Insights on Global Climate Finance	Benjamin Leffel	University of California, Irvine
		Neighborhood Inequality and Place-based Policymaking at Scale: Los Angeles County 2010-2030	Jared Schachner	Harvard University
		Embedded Cohesion: Social Bases of Urban Public Goods Distribution	Benjamin H. Bradlow	Brown University
		Civic Transformation and Elite Politics: The Formation of Interlocking Directorates in Urban Non-Profit Organizations	Andrew Messamore	University of Texas at Austin
5-6:30		Cocktail hour

Co-sponsored by:
Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
City & Community Journal
NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
NYU Sociology
NYU Urban Democracy Lab
OSU Sociology
OSU Institute for Population Research