..Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward Six

A while back, I was talking with someone who has been running an illegal food co-op for decades. In his discussion about the co-op, he said...

During the snowstorm, I sat down to read Luc Sante's The Other Paris (2015) and couldn't put it down. What an amazing book. Sante s...

I plan to talk about gentrification myths,  the scholarly literature on gentrification, and  my current research project. This event is fr...

The Annual Conference on D.C. Historical Studies is such a great conference. It brings together a whole range of professional and amate...

In Sunday's Post , LSE sociology professor David Madden explored five myths about public housing . Here are the five myths and how the...

In response to my previous post , someone who lived in the Ellen Wilson Dwellings in the mid-1960s as a small child reminded me of a third ...

This summer, I've been conducting research on the history of the Ellen Wilson Dwellings, a public housing project that used to sit at I...