The History of Displacement in American Cities
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 12pm in Foster 103 [1130 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637]

Speaker
Dr. William Sites [Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago]

Speaker Bio
William Sites is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. His fields of interest include urban studies, community organization, politics, movements and social theory. At SSA, Professor Sites teaches courses in political processes, urban political economy, community organization, and the role of theory in research. Professor Sites' work focuses on how economic and political structures, policymakers, and community action shape the ways in which cities develop and change, and on how such changes relate to the social welfare of residents. Focusing most centrally on whether urban politics matters for lower-income citizens, his research has addressed such issues as conflicts over neighborhood gentrification, the evolution of local development policy, and the implications of the U.S. response to globalization for social equity and community change in American cities, particularly New York and Chicago.

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