Education

2001: Ph.D. Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

1989: BA, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA.

Awards

2000 PSC-CUNY Research Grant: "Evaluating the Community Justice Model: The Brooklyn Justice Project."

2000 Unsponsored Research release time grant "Evaluating the Community Justice Model: The Brooklyn Justice Project."

1998: Bensman Dissertation Proposal Award

1997: Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Dissertation Award

Employment

1999: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College

1998: Adjunct Professor, Hunter College

• Sociology Department. Course taught: Urban Sociology

1997: Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn College

• Sociology Department. Course taught: Sociology of Collective Behavior.

1996: Teaching Asst. for Prof. Philip Kasinitz, Hunter College.

• Sociology Department. Course taught: Senior Honors Seminar in Urban Research

1993 to 2000: Research Asst. for Prof. Sharon Zukin, CUNY-GC.

• Documented importance of ethnic identity in the creation of retail environments in New York City.

• Researched the changing employment patterns associated with entertainment industries in New York City.

• Researched conflicts over community standards of public civility in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

1989-1993: Policy Analyst, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.

Research Groups

Summer 1998: Center for Critical Global Homelessness Studies, San Francisco State University, Talmadge Wright, Director.

Winter 1997 to 1999: Law and Society Group, Columbia University, Lynn Chancer, Director.

Professional Associations

1996 American Sociological Association

1997 Law and Society Association

1999 American Society of Criminology