Jerome Krase

Jerome Krase is an emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor of sociology. He was Brooklyn-born and raised and is a U.S. Army veteran, having served from 1963 to 1966. As an activist-scholar, he has worked with and studied a wide variety of city-wide organizations as well as neighborhood and ethnic groups in New York City, especially in Brooklyn. He also researches, writes and photographs about urban life and culture globally, most recently as a Fulbright Specialist to Prague to lecture on the rise of nationalism. One of his recent books includes Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street (Lexington Books, 2016).