Faculty Associate Dean Emily Tumpson Molina
Emily Tumpson Molina is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College. Her research and teaching focus on housing, urban geography, and critical data analytics. She is the author of A People’s Guide to New York City with fellow CUNY professors Carolina Bank Munoz and Penny Lewis (U of California Press, 2022) and Housing America: Issues and Debates (Routledge, 2017), as well as articles in the Journal of Urban Affairs, City & Community, Housing Policy Debate, and Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. A first-generation college graduate trained broadly in the social sciences (women’s and gender studies, anthropology, sociology, statistics, and geography), she integrates her research, teaching, and mentoring through applied, problem-based, experiential, and place-based pedagogies. She has worked with BC faculty across schools and departments to bring more than $250,000 to Brooklyn College since 2019, primarily to support to students’ research and experiential internships.