Culture and Consumption
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
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.
Volume 37, No 3: “Unequally vulnerable: a food justice approach to racial disparities in COVID-19 cases” (p.535-536)
Additional Publications:
“Community Context of Food Access in a Food Desert.” (Co-Editor with Laura McKinney)
“Availability and Accessibility of Vacant Lots for Urban Cultivation in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” (Co-editor with Scarlett Andrews and Cate Irvin)
Gözde Güran, Ph.D.
Professor Güran is a sociologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. Previously, she was an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies in 2020-2021, and an assistant professor at the London School of Economics in 2021-2022. Güran received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2020.
Volume 37, No 4: “Rating Prestige: Status-Seeking and Creditworthiness on the
Global Stage,” p.1131–1159
No 278: “Mobilizing in Exile: Syrian Associational Life in Turkey and Lebanon,” (p.20–26)
Additional Publications:
“Brokers of Order: How Money Moves in Wartime Syria“