..Sociology in My Neighborhood: DC Ward Six

In this blog, I have noted how gentrification often acts like settler colonialism. Gentrification is often portrayed as motivated by "...

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on the Takoma Junction development, which I discussed in a previous post . In the article , a city...

WPFW hosted a remarkable town hall , which brought together such interesting people and wonderful hosts. The concrete focus of the town hal...

I'll be talking about theories of gentrification as part of WPFW's Economic Development, Equity, and Social Justice Town Hall in ...

David Rotenstein ( @iVernacular and historian4hire blog) thankfully reminded me of another fight against gentrification: the lawsuit filed...

Every day I hear about people fighting to stop the DC government from giving away (or selling at very low prices) public land and buildin...

After spending the past 10 months in New Jersey, I am happily back in DC. I got a lot of academic writing done in New Jersey, which was the...