Gregory Smithsimon
Professor, Sociology
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B.A., Brown University, 1994, Urban Studies, Visual Arts
M.A., Columbia University, 1999, Sociology
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006, Sociology
Gregory Smithsimon is professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is an expert on urban sociology, gentrification, race, disasters and community responses to terrorism, climate change, French suburbs, and public space.
He is the author of Cause: And How It Doesn’t Always Equal Effect and September 12: Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero. He is also author, with Benjamin Shepard, of The Beach Beneath the Streets on protest movements and New York’s privately owned public spaces. He is completing Liberty Road: African American Middle-Class Suburbs Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism.
