Urban Studies
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Fall Graduate Class: Economic Democracy Against Economic Crisis
Taught by Evan Casper-Futterman With Guest Lectures by Dario Azzellini This class will be cross-listed in the Masters Programs of both Labor and Urban Studies. Speak to your adviser about registration. Monday nights at the Murphy Institute In the 1950s, labor unions claimed membership in 35% of the workforce. Today, density of labor unions outside of…
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Prof. Steve Brier Publishes Book on Austerity and Public Education
We are please to announce the recent publication of a new book from Murphy Institute consortial faculty member Prof. Steve Brier, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Co-authored with Michael Fabricant, Austerity Blues examines the social consequences of disinvestment in public higher education, particularly its effects on…
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Undesigning the Redline
In recent years, “gentrification” has infiltrated the everyday speech of urban residents struggling to stay in their communities in the face of rising rents. But gentrification is only one piece of a much longer history of displacement and policy-produced poverty in American cities. This history runs from slavery through Jim Crow, redlining, racial covenants, blockbusting, urban renewal, capital…
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New Book from Prof. Michael Fortner: Urban Citizenship and American Democracy
Michael Javen Fortner, Assistant Professor and Academic Director of Urban Studies at the Murphy Institute and author of the sensational “Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment,” has released a new book: “Urban Citizenship and American Democracy,” co-edited by Amy Bridges: After decades of being defined by crisis and limitations, cities are…
