Discipline(s):
Sociology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Urban Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, Class, Neighborhoods, Culture, Politics
E-Mail:
adeener@wharton.upenn.edu
Background:
Andrew Deener is an urban sociologist and community ethnographer who studies neighborhoods, culture, politics, and inequality. He is currently completing a book, based on six years of ethnographic and historical research, about the politics of urban change in the Los Angeles coastal community of Venice. This book examines how gentrification, homelessness, and immigration have simultaneously transformed five adjacent neighborhoods in Venice since the 1970s, and why some neighborhoods have sustained racial, ethnic, and/or socioeconomic diversity while others have become increasingly homogeneous. As a Health and Society Scholar, Andrew will study food inequalities in the city. He is particularly interested in examining how sustainable food sources have become integrated into urban life, the unequal distribution of these resources, and the ways in which residents of low-income neighborhoods overcome constraints in order to gain access to healthier options. Andrew received his PhD from UCLA in 2008 and is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Andrew Deener's available publications in PubMed.
