Urban Studies
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
Brian J McCabe, Ph.D.
Dr. Brian J. McCabe is a Professor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Sociology. He holds an affiliated appointment in the McCourt School of Public Policy. He is a scholar of urban inequality, housing, and public policy.
Additional Publications:
“Evictions: The Comparative Analysis Problem.” (Co-Author with Kyle Nelson, Philip Garboden, and Eva Rosen)
“Why Buy a Home? Race, Ethnicity, and Homeownership Preferences in the United States.”
Yuki Kato, Ph.D.
Dr. Yuki Kato is an urban sociologist whose research interests intersect the subfields of social stratification, food and environmental justice, culture and consumption, and symbolic interaction. She has conducted research on the rise of urban agriculture and the alternative food movement in post-Katrina New Orleans, with a particular focus on food access disparities, the spatial and social landscape of alternative food activism, and the contested meanings of local during a major urban transformation.
Additional Publications:
“Community Context of Food Access in a Food Desert.” (Co-Author with Laura McKinney)
“Availability and Accessibility of Vacant Lots for Urban Cultivation in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” (Co-Author with Scarlett Andrews and Cate Irvin)
Carla Shedd, Ph.D
Dr. Carla Shedd is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University whose research and teaching focus on: race and ethnicity, criminalization and criminal justice, education, law, social inequality, and urban policy.
Volume 10, Issue 3: “Countering the carceral continuum: The legal of mass incarceration,” p.865 – 868
Additional Publications:
“Race, Ethnicity, and Youth Perceptions of Criminal Injustice.” (Co-Author with John Hagan and Monique R Payne)
“First and last words: Apprehending the social and legal facts of an urban high school shooting.” (Co-Author with John Hagan and Paul Hirschfield)
Kristin Perkins, Ph.D.
Dr. Kristin L. Perkins is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University. Kristin studies inequality and social stratification with a focus on children, families, and neighborhoods.
Volume 60, No 6: “Household Instability and Girls’ Teen Childbearing,” p.1767–1789
Volume 101, No 4: “The Geography of Gentrification and Residential Mobility,” (p.1856–1887)
Additional Publications:
“The Potential for Shared Equity and Other Forms of Downpayment Assistance to Expand Access to Homeownership.” (Co-Author with Shannon Rieger, Jonathan Spader, and Christopher Herbert)
“Reconsidering Residential Mobility: Differential Effects On Child Wellbeing By Race And Ethnicity.”