CV-Oakley, P.1

January 2017

CURRICULUM VITA

DEIRDRE ÁINE OAKLEY

Professor

Department of Sociology

Georgia State University

I. EDUCATION

Institution Degree Date

University at Albany (SUNY) Ph.D. (Sociology) May 2003

University at Albany (SUNY) Graduate Certificate (Urban Policy) May 1995

University at Albany (SUNY) M.A. (Urban Geography) May 1993

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME B.A. (American History) May 1984

II. ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Professor Georgia State University 2015- present

Associate Professor Georgia State University 2010-2015

Sociology Department Undergraduate Director Georgia State University 2013-2016

Graduate Faculty Member Duke University* 2011-2013

*Sanford School of Public Policy

Assistant Professor Georgia State University 2007-2010

Assistant Professor Northern Illinois University 2004-2007

Postdoctoral Urban Fellow University at Albany (SUNY)* 2003-2004 *Lewis Mumford Center

III. SCHOLARSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Edited Volumes

Fraser, J., Oakley, D. and Levy D. (Guest Editors) Mixed Messages on Mixed Incomes: A Symposium. Cityscape

15(2): 2013.

• Publications: Journal Articles (*denotes graduate student author)

Logan, J., Zhang, W. and Oakley, D. (2017). “Court Orders, White Flight, and School District Segregation, 1970-2010.”

Social Forces. January: 1-27 doi: 10.1093/sf/sow104.

Oakley, D. and Fraser, J. (2016). “U.S. Public-Housing Transformations and the Housing Publics Lost in Transition.”

City and Community 15(4):349-366 (with critical response commentary).

Oakley, D. (2015). “Broadening our Focus: Regional Cities as a New Frontier of Urban Sociology.” City & Community.

14: (3): 249-253.

Oakley, D. and *Ukpabi, I. (2015). “Barcelona and the 21st Century Housing Question.”

Revista de Derecho Urbanístico (RDU). 297: (April-May): 207-220.

Oakley, D., Fraser, J. and Bazuin, J. (2015) “The Imagined Self-Sufficient Communities of HOPE VI: Examining the

Community and Social Support Component.” Urban Affairs Review. 51(5):726-746.

CV-Oakley, P.2 Fraser, J. and Oakley, D. (2014). “The Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Stable for Whom?” Journal of Urban

Affairs. 37: (1): 38-41.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. (2013) “It was really hard. … It was alright. …It was easy.” Public Housing

Relocation Experiences and Destination Satisfaction in Atlanta." Cityscape. 15(2):173-192.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. (2013) "Atlanta's Last Demolitions and Relocations: The Relationship Between

Neighborhood Characteristics and Resident Satisfaction." Housing Studies. 28(2): 205-234.

Davis, T. and Oakley D. (2013) "Linking Charter School Emergence to Urban Revitalization and Gentrification: A Socio-

Spatial Analysis of Three Cities." Journal of Urban Affairs 35(1):81-102.

Ruel, E., Oakley, D., *Ward, C., *Alston, R., and Reid, L. (2013) "Public Housing Relocations in Atlanta: Documenting

Residents' Attitudes." Cities. 35:349-358.

Fraser, J, Oakley, D. and Levy D. (2013) "Policy Assumptions and Lived Realities of Mixed-Income Housing on Both

Sides of the Atlantic." Cityscape. 15(2):1-14.

Fraser, J., Brown-Burns, A., Bazuin, J., and Oakley, D. (2013) "HOPE VI, Colonization, and the Production of

Difference. Urban Affairs Review. 49(4):525-556.

Fraser, J., Oakley, D. and *Bazuin, J. (2012) “Public Ownership and Private Profit in Housing.” Cambridge Journal of

Regions, Economy & Society 5(3):397-412).

Oakley, D.,*Ward, C., Reid, L. and Ruel, E. (2011) “The Poverty Deconcentration Imperative and Public Housing

Transformation.” Sociology Compass 5(9):824-833.

Tester, G., Ruel, E., *Anderson, A., Reitzes, D., and Oakley D. (2011) “Sense of Place Among Atlanta Public Housing

Residents.” Journal of Urban Health. 88(3):436-53.

Ruel, E., Oakley, D., *Wilson, E., and *Maddox, R. (2010) “Is Public Housing the Cause of Poor Health or a Safety Net

for the Unhealthy Poor?” Journal of Urban Health 87(5):827-838.

Oakley, D. and Burchfield, K. (2009) “Out of the Projects, Still in the Hood: The Spatial Constraints on Public Housing

Residents’ Relocation in Chicago.” Journal of Urban Affairs 31(5):589-614.

Oakley, D., Stowell, J. and Logan, J. (2009) “The Impact of Mandated School Desegregation on Black Teachers in the

Metropolis: 1970-2000: An Empirical Analysis.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 32(9):1576-1598.

Oakley, D. (2008) “Locational Patterns of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments: A Socio-Spatial Analysis of

Four Metropolitan Areas.” Urban Affairs Review 43(5):599-628.

Logan, J., Oakley, D. and Stowell, J. (2008) “School Segregation in Metropolitan Regions, 1970-2000: The Impacts of

Policy Choices on Public Education. American Journal of Sociology 113(6):1611-1644.

Oakley, D. and Tsao, H. (2007) “The Bottom Up Mandate: Fostering Community Partnerships and Combating Economic

Distress in Chicago’s Empowerment Zone.” Urban Studies 44(4):1-25.

Oakley, D. and Tsao, H. (2007) “Socioeconomic Gains and Spillover Effects of Geographically Targeted Initiatives to

Combat Urban Distress: An Examination of Chicago’s Empowerment Zone.” Cities. 24(1):43-59.

Oakley, D. and Tsao, H. (2006) “A New Way of Revitalizing Urban Communities? Assessing the Impact of the Federal

Empowerment Zone Program.” Journal of Urban Affairs 28(5):443-471.

CV-Oakley, P.3 Oakley, D. (2006) “The American Welfare State Decoded: Uncovering the Neglected History of Public-Private

Partnerships – 1920s and 1990s.” City & Community 5(3): 243-267.

Logan, J., Oakley, D. and Stowell, J. (2006) “Resegregation in American Public Schools or White Decline? A Closer

Look at Trends in the 1990s.” Children, Youth & Environments (CYE) 16(1):49-68.

Oakley, D. (2002) "Housing Homeless People: Local Mobilization of Federal Resources to Fight NIMBYism." Journal of

Urban Affairs 24(1):97-116.

Hanrahan, P., Oakley, D., Rickards, L., Luchins, D., Herrell, J., Matters, M. and Gallagher, C. (1999) “Cross-Site Issues

in the Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness." Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 17(1/2): 187-208.

• Book Chapters

*Haley, DF, Parker, K, Dauria, E, Root, C, Rodriquez, L, Ruel E, Oakley D, Wang , J, Jennings, L, Cooper, HF. (2016).

“Housing, Home, and Health: Understanding the complex intersections between health, housing, and health disparity

among women living in poverty”. O’Leary A. and Frew P. (eds.). Poverty in the United States: Women’s Voices. New

York, NY: Springer, pp.189-205.

Oakley, D., and Fraser, J. (2016). “The Obama Administration’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program: From Foreclosure

Crisis to What in Nashville’s Chestnut Hill?” in DeFilippis, J. (ed.) Urban Policy in the Time of Obama, Minneapolis,

MN: University of Minnesota, pp. 231-244.

Hankins, K., Puckett, M., Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. (2015). “From ‘Free-Market’ Slums to Public Housing and Back

Again: The Mobilities and Immobilities of Atlanta’s Poor” in Miraftab, F., D. Wilson, and K. Salo (eds.) Cities and

Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World. Routledge, pp. 49-74.

Fraser, J. and Oakley, D. (2015). “Mixed Income Communities and Poverty Amelioration.” in Haymes, S., Haymes, M.

and Miller, R. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Poverty in the United States. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 268-274

Skoba, K., Oakley, D., and Farmer, D. (2015). “Privatizing the housing safety net: Neoliberalism and the transformation

of public housing in the U.S.” in Haymes, S., Haymes, M. and Miller, R. (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Poverty in the

United States. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 285-295.

Oakley, D. (2014). “Fair Housing and Residential Segregation.” In Adelman, R., and Mele, C. (eds.) Race, Space, and

Exclusion: Segregation and Beyond in Metropolitan America. New York, NY: Routledge, pp.41-59.

Oakley, D. (2014). “From Magazine Publishing to Studying Homelessness, From Public Housing Research to

Congressional Testimony.” In White, S, White J. and Korgen, K. (eds.) Sociology in Action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,

pp. 44-49.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., and Reid, L. (2013) "Is the Grass Any Greener on the Other Side of the Projects? Public Housing

Relocation and Resident Outcomes in Atlanta." in Yeakey, C. (ed) Urban Ills: Post Recession Complexities of Urban

Living in Global Contexts. New York, NY: Lexington Books, pp. 269-296.

Logan, J. and Oakley, D. (2012) “Schools Matter: Segregation, Unequal Educational Opportunities, and the Achievement

Gap in the Boston Region.” in Tate, W. (ed) Research on Schools Neighborhoods, and Communities: Towards Civic

Responsibility. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., pp. 103-124.

Oakley, D. and Logan J. R. (2007) “A Spatial Analysis of the Urban Service Landscape: What Accounts for Differences

across Neighborhoods?” in Lobao, L., Hooks, G. and Tickamyer, A. (eds.) Who Gets What Where? The Sociology of

Spatial Inequality. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 215-232. (*CHOICE Outstanding Title Award,

2007).

CV-Oakley, P.4 Logan J., Oakley, D., and Stowell J. (2006). “Public Policy Impacts on School Desegregation, 1970-2000.” In Frazier, J

and Tettey-Fio, E (eds), Race, Ethnicity and Place in a Changing America. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic

Publishing, pp. 33-44.

Oakley, D. and Dennis, D. (1996) "Responding to the Needs of Homeless People with Alcohol, Drug, and/or Mental

Disorders." In Baumohl, J. (ed.) Homelessness in America. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, pp. 179-187.

• Editorial Projects

Special Issue Guest Editor with Kali-Ahset Amen (James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University): “Black Meccas

of the Americas” Journal of Urban Affairs. (2017-2018).

Managing Editor for Housing and Education Policy, Journal of Urban Affairs. July 2015-

Guest Editor with Jim Fraser (Vanderbilt University) and Diane Levy (The Urban Institute) of Cityscape

Symposium: "Mixed Messages on Mixed Incomes" 15(2): 2013.

• Op-Ed Pieces/Letters to the Editor

Oakley, D. (2016). “Combatting Homelessness Atlanta Style.” Atlanta Studies Blog, December 14.

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/atlantastudies/2016/12/15/combatting-homelessness-atlanta-style/

Oakley, D. (2016). “Flawed Mount Greylock Regional High School ‘Survey’ isn’t Worthy of Name.” Berkshire Eagle

March 5, 2016 (published online February 27). http://www.berkshireeagle.com/letters/ci_29570463/letter-flawed-mgrhs-

survey-isnt-worthy-name

Oakley, D. (2015). “Sociology Stuck in an Ivory Tower.” Chronicle of Higher Education January 21. 2015 (published

online January 12). http://www.careernetwork.com/article/Sociology-Stuck-in-an-Ivory/151067/

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid. L (2010) “Public Housing for the Poor: Mend it, Don’t End it.” Christian Science Monitor

January 27. http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0127/Public-housing-for-the-poor-Mend-it-don-t-end-

it

Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. (2009) “Atlanta is No Model for Public Housing.” Galveston County Daily News September 6.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=fda5306e61e159c9

Book Reviews and other Reviewer Information

Book Reviews (*Denote Graduate Student)

Oakley, D. and *Boyd, C. Forthcoming. “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond, New

York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2016.” Sociological Forum.

Oakley, D. Forthcoming. “Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy. Edited by Nicholas Dagen

Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015.” Journal of Urban Affairs.

Oakley, D. (2016). “Cities of North America: Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities. Edited by Lisa

Benton-Short. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.” Urban Studies. 53(2):442-443.

Oakley, D. and *Boyd, C. “Ghetto: The Invention of Place, the History of an Idea, By Mitchell Duneier, New York, NY:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.” Journal of Urban Affairs Blog. https://juablog.com/2016/06/09/blog-exclusive-book-

review-ghetto/

Oakley, D. (2016). “Building a Co-operative Community in Public Housing: The Case of the Atkinson Housing Co-

operative, By Jorge Sousa. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2013.” Contemporary Sociology. 45(1): 88-90.

CV-Oakley, P.5 Oakley, D. (2014). “Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities by

Lawrence J. Vale, Chicago University Press, 2013.” Journal of Urban Affairs. (published online June, 2014).

Oakley, D. (2013) "Fair and Affordable Housing in the U.S. edited by Robert Silverman and Kelly Patterson, Brill

Publications, 2011." Journal of Urban Affairs. 35(2):250-251.

Oakley, D. (2013) “How to House the Homeless edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O’Flaherty, Russell Sage

Foundation, 2010.” City & Community 12(1):80-82.

Oakley, D. (2012) “Urban Diversity: Space, Culture, and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide edited by Caroline

Wanjiku Kihato, Majgan Massoumi, Blair A. Ruble, Pep Subiros, and Allison M. Garland, The Johns Hopkins University

Press, 2010.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 53(1):66-68.

Oakley, D. (2008) “Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City by Nicole P. Marwell,

The University of Chicago Press, 2007.” City & Community. 7(2):185.

Oakley, D. (2008) “Neighbourhood Dynamics in Inner-Budapest: A Realist Approach by Zsuzsa Foldi, Nederlandse

Geografische Studies 350, 2006.” Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (Journal of Economic & Social

Geography.) 99(2):262-264.

Oakley, D. (2006) “The Word on the Street: Homeless Men in Las Vegas by Kurt Borchard, University of Nevada Press,

2005.” The Social Science Journal 43(3):251-253.

Oakley, D (2004) “Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban

Development in North American and Western Europe by H.V. Savitch and Paul Kantor:

Princeton University Press, 2002.” City & Community. 3(3):293-300.

Oakley, D. (2000) “Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach

Workers by Michael Rowe: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999.” Psychiatric Services

51(9):1188-89.

Adhoc Journal Manuscript Reviewer

American Journal of Sociology, City & Community, Housing Studies, Housing Policy Debate

Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Urban Affairs, Regional Studies, Social Forces

Social Problems, Sociological Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review Urban Studies

D. Federal and State Congressional Testimony

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. “Legislative Proposals to Preserve Public Housing.” Testimony to the

United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and

Community Opportunities, Washington, DC, April 28, 2010 (Invited oral and written testimony).

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., and Reid, L. “The Administration’s Proposal to Revitalize Severely Distressed

Public and Assisted Housing: The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative.” Testimony to the United States

House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, Washington, DC, March 17, 2010. (Invited

written testimony entered into record).

Oakley, D. and Ruel E. “Location of Voucher Housing and Its Implications for Public

Housing.” Testimony to the Georgia State House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Affordable Housing. Atlanta,

GA, March 6, 2008.

• Other Publications (*denotes graduate student author; ** undergraduate student author)

Oakley, D. (2013) “Housing” in One Region Reality Future: Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas. Atlanta, GA Partnership for

Southern Equity, pp. 104-114.

CV-Oakley, P.6 Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. (2011) Housing Galveston’s Future: Report Two. Galveston, TX: Galveston Housing Authority

Oakley, D., Reid, L., and Ruel E. (Under authorship: GSU Urban Health Initiative) (2011) Is the Grass Any

Greener?Destination Neighborhood Characteristics and Residents’ Views Six Months After Relocation. Atlanta, GA:

Urban Health Initiative, Georgia State University.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. (2010) It’s a Trade Off: The Objective and Subjective Realities of Public Housing

Relocation in Atlanta. Paper prepared for the Neighbourhood Restructuring and Resident Relocation Conference, Delft,

Netherlands, November 4-5.

Oakley, D. and Ruel, E.,**Goidal, A., *Pell, C., and **Terry, B. (2010) Housing Galveston’s Future: An Assessment of

Trends and Post-Ike Plans (Report One). Galveston, TX: Galveston Public Housing Authority.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., Reid L. and Sims C. (2010) Public Housing Relocation and Residential Segregation in Atlanta:

Where are Families Going? Atlanta, GA: Clark Atlanta University State of Black Atlanta Summit.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., Reid, L. and Reed, N. (2009). Public Housing Transformation in Atlanta: Implications for Low-

Income Housing. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR).

Oakley D. (2008) “Housing” in Parrillo, V.N. ed. Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

Publications, pp. 457-459.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and *Wilson, G.E. (2008). A Choice with No Options: Atlanta Public Housing Residents’ Lived

Experiences in the Face of Relocation. Atlanta, GA: Partnership for Urban Health Research, Georgia State University.

Oakley, D. (2005). Pro-Growth, Pro-Community, Does it Work? The Impact of the Federal Empowerment Zone

Program. Ann Arbor, MI: National Poverty Center, University of Michigan.

Logan J., and Oakley, D. (2004.) The Continuing Legacy of the Brown Decision: Court Action and School Segregation,

1960-2000. Albany, NY: Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, State University of New

York.

Logan J., Oakley, D., Stowell, J. (2003). Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools: Impacts on Minority Children in the

Boston Region. Albany, NY: Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, State University of

New York.

Logan J., Oakley, D., Smith, P., Stowell, J. and Stults, B. (2001). Separating the Children: Ethnic Diversity and

Residential Segregation. Albany, NY: Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research.

Williams, V., Banks, S., Oakley, D., Robbins, P. and Dean, J. (2001). Final Report: The Center for Mental Health

Services/Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness. Rockville, MD: U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services.

Dennis, D. and Oakley, D. (1996). HUD's Response to Homelessness Among People Who Have Serious Mental Illnesses:

Analysis and Next Steps. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

• Panel/Symposium Organization Projects

Amen, K., Clayton, O., Combs, B. and Oakley, D. (Organizers) “Still the ‘Black Mecca’? Race, Social Inequality, and

Urban Displacement in 21st-Century Atlanta.” Clark Atlanta University, James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory

University, and Georgia State University. Pre-Facing Race National Conference Symposium, Atlanta, November 9, 2016.

Oakley, D. (Organizer), Woldoff, R. (Moderator) “Bringing Sociology’s ‘Community Question’ Back to the 21st

Century.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, August 19-23, 2016).

CV-Oakley, P.7 Oakley, D., Clayton, O., and Combs, B. (Organizers) “Bringing W.E.B. Du Bois Back to 21st Century Atlanta

Symposium.” Clark Atlanta University and Georgia State University, Atlanta, April 13, 2016.

Oakley, D. (Organizer) “Panel Session: Beyond the Numbers: Counting the Many Needs of Homeless Adults and Youth

in Atlanta.” (Panelists: Timothy Crimmins, Nia Reed, Donald Reitzes, Erin Ruel, and Eric Wright, Georgia State

University). Atlanta Studies Symposium: The Atlanta Way: Past, Present and Future, Atlanta, GA, May 6, 2015.

Oakley, D. (Organizer) “Panel Session: Mixed Income Redevelopment and the Questions of Who Loses and Who Finds

Community.” Urban Affairs Associate Annual Meeting, Miami, FL: April 8-11, 2015.

Oakley, D. (Organizer) "Panel Session: Negotiating Within and Around Low Income Housing Policies in the United

States." Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA: April 3-6, 2013.

Oakley, D. and Fraser, J. (Organizers) “Special Panel on Public Housing Transformation and the Right to the City.”

Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA: March 16-19, 2011.

Ruel, E. and Oakley, D. (Organizers) “Special Session Panel on Policy Interventions for Healthy Low Income Housing.”

International Conference on Urban Health, New York, NY: October 27-29, 2010.

Oakley, D. (Organizer) “Session on Housing Policies and Practices and Social Justice.” Society for the Study of Social

Problems Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA: August 13-15, 2010.

Oakley, D. (Organizer) “Space and Place.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA,

August 8, 2009.

• Invited Presentations and Panels (*denotes graduate student author)

Oakley, D. “Powerless or Piecing Together a Puzzle? Community Organization in Atlanta’s Olympic Legacy 21st

Century Redevelopment Regime.” PROURB - Programa de Pos-Graduaçao Em Urbanismo, Universidade Federal do Rio

de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 7, 2016 (Full project visit December 6-13).

American Communities Project Workshop, Brown University, November 11-12, 2016.

Oakley, D. and Fraser, J. “Mapping Neighborhoods of Opportunity for Low Income Households in an Era of Affordable

Housing Crises: Atlanta.” Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, Kent State University, September 21-24, 2016.

Oakley, D. and Fraser, J. “U.S. Public-Housing Transformations and the Housing Publics Lost in Transition.” Department

of Sociology, University of Georgia, September 9, 2016.

Panel: “Gentrification: Atlanta’s World Class Challenge” State Senator, Vincent Fort, Deirdre Oakley and Pastor Anthony

Motley (panelists) Carter Center and the Baton Foundation, August 4, 2016.

Oakley, D. “Bringing W.E.B. Du Bois back to the 21st Century @Twitter.” American Studies Department, Vanderbilt

University, April 19, 2016.

Oakley, D. “Author Meets Critics: Jerusalem: The Spatial Politics of a Divided Metropolis by Anne Shlay and Gillad

Rosen.” Urban Affairs Association Meeting, San Diego, March 16-19, 2016.

Oakley, D. and King Williams. “Discussion of Gentrification in Atlanta.” Symposium on Race, Urban Culture and

Campus Diversity. Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, November 3-5, 2015.

Oakley, D. “The Renewal Series: Celebrating America’s Local Innovators.” Allstate, National Journal Atlanta Round

Table. Atlanta, Georgia, September 10, 2015.

CV-Oakley, P.8 Oakley, D. “Author Meets Critic: The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State

by Patricia Fernandez Kelly.” Southern Sociology Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 25-28, 2015.

Oakley, D. “Symposium on Housing and Homelessness.” Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State

University, March 24, 2015.

Oakley, D. “Public Housing Transformation, Residential Choice, and Fair Housing.” Speaker and Roundtable Series,

Western Poverty Center, University of Washington, March 2-3, 2015.

Oakley, D. “Burying Residential Integration Underground? The Case of Late 20th Century Public Housing

Transformation.” Colloquia Series, Department of Human and Organizational Development, The Peabody College,

Vanderbilt University, October 31, 2014.

Oakley, D. "Fair Housing Law and Public Housing Transformation: Examining Why HOPE VI Had So Little Effect on

Residential Integration." Race, Ethnicity and Place (REP) Conference, Fort Worth, TX, October 22-25, 2014.

Oakley, D. “Stuck on the American Dream: Panel on Politics and Place” (with Jim Fraser, Vanderbilt, University; and

Edward Goetz, University of Minnesota), Amherst College, Amherst, MA (Sponsored by the Office of the President),

October 9, 2014.

Oakley, D. and Pittman L. “Public Housing Transformation and the Question of Community.” School of Public Policy

Speakers’ Series and the Center for Urban Innovation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, September 25, 2014.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., Hankins, K., and Reid, L. “Resistance Was Futile: The Story of Public Housing Transformation in

Atlanta.” Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE) Seminar Series, Rutgers University, Camden, September 12,

2014.

Oakley, D. Ruel, E. and Reid, L. “Resistance Was Futile: The Case of Public Housing Elimination in Atlanta.” Urban

Affairs Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX., March 19-22, 2014.

Oakley, D. “Understanding Housing Choice Vouchers.” Urban Fellows Lecture, Georgia State University Law School,

March 5, 2014.

Oakley, D., Reid, L. and Ruel, E. “Workshop on Race, Space and Exclusion.” Balding Center for Law and Social Policy

and the Department of Sociology, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. September 19-20, 2013.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. “Affordable Housing in a Time of Capitalist Crisis: The State, State Policies, and

Market Logics” Session. Royal Geographical Society with the Institute for British Geographers Annual Meeting. London,

UK., August 29-30, 2013.

Oakley, D., and *Ward, C. “Seeing is Believing: Photography’s Powerful Pedagogy to Convey Social Inequality in

Everyday Spaces.” State Education Editors Conference, Atlanta, GA. June 23, 2013.

Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. "Contested Urban Space, Growth Machine Limits and Outwaiting the State: The Case of Post-

Hurricane Ike Galveston." The Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 24-27, 2012.

Davis T. and Oakley D. “Journal of Urban Affairs Sponsored Panel: Special Issue on Urban Education and Neighborhood

Revitalization.” Annual Urban Affairs Association Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. April 18-21, 2012.

Logan, R. and Oakley, D. “Presidential Plenary Session on Shifting Social Contracts in Education: Does the

Resegregation of Public Education Matter?” Annual Southern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans,

LA. March 21-24, 2012.

CV-Oakley, P.9 Oakley, D., Tester, G., Ruel, E., and Reid, L. “Piecing it Together: Relocated Public Housing Residents’ Culture of

Agency.” Annual Mumford Center Alumni Lecture, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY. September 23,

2011.

Oakley, D. and Tsao, H. “Assessing the Impact of the Federal Empowerment Zone Program.” Committee on Valuing

Community-Based, Non-Clinical Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies, Institute of Medicine of the National

Academies of Sciences, Washington, DC, September 19, 2011.

Oakley, D., Reid, L., Ruel, E., and Tester, G. "The End of Public Housing in Atlanta: Implications for the City and

Surrounding Suburbs." Suburban Studies Conference, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA. April 15, 2011.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. “The Varying Realities of Public Housing Relocation in Atlanta and Implications for

Housing Authorities as Public Service Organizations.” Housing Symposium, Human and Organizational Development

Department, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, February 18, 2011.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. “Public Housing Relocation in Atlanta: Preliminary Findings from the Georgia State

Urban Health Initiative.” Presentation to the Atlanta Housing Authority, Atlanta, GA: October 22, 2010.

Oakley, D. Ruel, E., Reid, L. and *Terry, B. “The End of Public Housing in Atlanta: Educational Implications of

Programs to Deconcentrate Poverty.” Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, Binghamton, NY, October 6-8, 2010.

Oakley, D. “Author Meets Critic Session: Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after

Apartheid by Martin Murray, Cornell University Press, 2008.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,

Atlanta, GA: August 14-17, 2010.

• Conference Presentations (*denotes graduate student author)

Pittman, L. and Oakley D. “‘It Was Love In All the Buildings They Tore Down’: Public Housing Transformation and the

Community Question among African American Custodial Grandmothers.” RC43 Housing in an Unequal World,

International Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 17-18, 2015.

Reid, L., Oakley, D., and Ruel, E. “Fear of Crime and Neighborhood Change.” Southern Sociology Society Annual

Meeting, New Orleans, March 25-28, 2015.

Oakley, D. “Fair Housing, DeFacto Residential Segregation, and Public Housing Transformation Policies The Case of

Atlanta.” Contemporary Urban Issues (CUI) Conference, Chamber of Architects of Turkey and DAKAM, Istanbul,

November 12-15, 2014.

Fuller, C., Dai, D., Stauber, C., Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. “Socioeconomic and Environmental Predictors of Nitrogen

Dioxide Concentrations in Atlanta.” International Conference on Urban Health, Manchester, United Kingdom, March 4-7,

2014.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. "Old And In The Way: Public Housing Transformation and the Displacement of Seniors

in Atlanta." Atlanta Studies Symposium, Emory University, Decatur, GA: April 26, 2013.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. "It was really hard... It was alright...It was easy” Public Housing Relocation

Experiences and Destination Satisfaction in Atlanta." Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco,

CA: April 3-6, 2013.

Hankins, K., *Puckett, M., Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. “The politics of (im)mobility and the relocation of public-housing

residents in Atlanta” in the “Mobility and Place, By Way of Encounter, Practice and Politics” session, Annual Meeting of

the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013

CV-Oakley, P.10 Hankins, K., *Puckett, M., Oakley, D., and Ruel, E. “Student mobility in the neoliberal city”in the “Critical Geography

Perspectives in Educational Research” session, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los

Angeles, CA, April 2013.

Reid, L., *Schweigert, K., Terry, B., Oakley, D. and Hatch, A. "Geospatial Patterns of Registered Sex Offender

Residences." American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 14-16, 2012.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., Hankins, K., and Tester, G. "Waiting to Move: The Relocation Experiences of Public Housing

Residents in Atlanta." Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, April 18-21, 2012.

Reid, L. and Oakley, D. "Gentrification and Geospatial Patterns of Criminal Offending." Southern Sociology Society

Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 21-24, 2012.

Fraser, J. *Brown-Burns, A., *Bazuin, J. and Oakley, D. "Housing, Neighborhoods, and Community Development: HOPE

VI Policy and the Production of Difference." The National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Las Vegas, NV,

March 14-17, 2012.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E. and Reid, L. “It’s a Trade Off: The Objective and Subjective Realities of Public Housing Relocation

in Atlanta.” Neighbourhood Restructuring and Resident Relocation Conference, Delft, Netherlands, November 4-5, 2010.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., Reid, L. and *Pell, C. “A Conflicted Epitaph? The End of Public Housing in Atlanta: Implications

for People and Policy.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA: August 14-17, 2010.

Ruel, E., Oakley, D., Reid, L., and *Ward, C. “Public Housing Relocation in Atlanta: Documenting Residents’ Attitudes,

Perceptions and Experiences.” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA: August 13-15,

2010.

Oakley, D., and Ruel, D. “Studying Public Housing Relocation: The Importance of Grassroots Partnerships.” Southern

Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA: April 21-24, 2010.

Oakley, D., Ruel, E., Reid L. and *Sims C. “Public Housing Relocation and Residential Segregation in Atlanta: Where

Are Families Going?” State of Black Atlanta Summit, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA, February 20, 2010.

Ruel, E. and Oakley, D. “Residents Health Condition Prior to Entering Public Housing: The Case of Atlanta.” American

Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, GA, August 7-11, 2009.

Ruel, E. and Oakley, D. “Is Public Housing the Cause of Poor Health or a Safety Net for the Unhealthy Poor? Institute for

Research on Poverty Summer Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June 15-19, 2009.

Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. “Public Housing Relocation in Atlanta: Preliminary Findings Concerning Destination

Neighborhood Characteristics.” University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Annual Small Grants Conference,

Lexington, KY, May 19, 2009.

Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. “Spatial Analysis in Urban Policy: Examining the Geographical Constraints of Voucher Housing

in Atlanta and Its Implications.” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 1-5, 2009.

Oakley, D. and Ruel, E. “Geographic Trends and Neighborhood Context of Public Housing Relocation in Atlanta:

Implications for Resident Well-being.” Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 4-7, 2009.

Oakley, D. “Where Will Public Housing Residents End Up? Mapping Housing Voucher Choice Locations in Atlanta.”

International Conference on Urban Health, Vancouver, BC, October 29-Nov 1, 2008.

CV-Oakley, P.11 *Wilson, G.E., Ruel E., and Oakley D. “Public Housing Residents’ Concerns and Well-being in the Face of Relocation.”

National Healthy Homes Conference (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), Baltimore, MD, September

15-17, 2008.

MacIndoe, H. and Oakley D. “Neighborhood Dynamics and the Spatial Organization of Churches and Nonprofits in the

Metropolis: A Case Study of Chicago.” Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 23-26, 2008.

Oakley, D. “Examining the Locational Patterns of Voucher Housing using GIS.” GIS for Teaching and Research

Conference, Institute for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Georgia Institute Technology, Atlanta, GA, February

14-15, 2008.

Oakley, D. and Burchfield, K. “Moving to Opportunity? A Case Study of the Chicago Housing Authority HOPE VI

Program.” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 4-7, 2007.

Oakley, D and MacIndoe, H. “Space, Place and Social Services in the City” Midwest Sociological Society Meeting,

Chicago, IL, April 4-7, 2007.

Oakley, D. “The Political Economy of Social Services Locations: New York City 1920s and 1990s.” Society of the Study

of Social Problems Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, August 10-12, 2006.

Oakley, D. and Tsao, H. “The Bottom Up Mandate: Fostering Community Partnerships and Combating Economic

Distress in Chicago’s Empowerment Zone.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec,

August 11-14, 2006.

Logan, J., Oakley, D. and Stowell, J. “Trends in Segregation of Children Across Neighborhoods and Schools.” American

Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 28-30, 2004.

Logan, J., Oakley, D. and Stowell, J. "Public Policy Impacts on School Desegregation.” Conference on Race, Ethnicity

and Place, Howard University Campus, Washington, DC, September 16-18, 2004.

Logan J., Oakley, D. and Stowell, J. “Segregation in the Neighborhoods and in the Schools: Impacts on Opportunity for

Minority Children in the Boston Region.” Color Lines Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August 30 –

September 1, 2004.

Logan, J. and Oakley, D. “Visualizing Spatial Effects with Maps in Sociology.” American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 15-19, 2003.

Oakley, D. and Stowell, J. “The Changing Relationship Between Neighborhood and School Segregation.” New York

State Sociological Association, University at Albany, Albany, NY, October 11-12, 2002.

Oakley, D. "Fallacies of the American Welfare State: The Enduring Community Response to the Needy."

Nordiskt Seminarium om Bostadsloshetsforskning, Nordic Network on Homelessness

Research, Helsinki, Finland, August 31-Septemeber 2, 2001.

Oakley, D. “Dismantling the Power of NIMBYism: Local Housing Organizations and the Mobilization of Federal

Resources.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 18-21, 2001.

Oakley, D. “Housing Homeless People and Community Opposition.” Homelessness and Social Exclusion, European

Housing Research Network Annual Conference, Galve, Sweden, May 29-June 5, 2000.

Oakley, D. "Zoning Opposition to Special Needs Housing: When Is Saturation Really Saturation?" Eastern Sociological

Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 2-5, 2000.

Oakley, D. "Keeping Homeless Individuals Homeless: City Politics and the Zoning of Permanent Housing for Street

Alcoholics." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL: August 6-10, 1999.

CV-Oakley, P.12 Oakley, D. “Liverpool: The Political Economy of a Declining City.” American Sociological

Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL: August 6-10, 1999.

Oakley, D. “The Transformation of a City: From Industrial Mills to Cultural Factories —

The Case of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.” Eastern Sociological Society

Annual Meeting, Boston, MA: March 4-7, 1999.

• Grants and External Funding

Georgia State University Faculty International Partnership Engagement (FIPE) Grant (2017-2018). “ Big Urban (re)

Development Projects: Atlanta and Rio de Janeiro – The Olympics and Beyond.” Partner Investigators: Erin Ruel, Deirdre

Oakley, and Maria da Silveira Lobo, Anne Shlay, Matt Gayman ($10,000).

National Science Foundation (NSF) (2016-2019). “Interrupting Place-based Inequality: Building Sustainable

Communities through Shared Equity Homeownership.” Principal Investigator: Susan Saegert, CUNY Graduate Center;

Co-Principal Investigators: Mary Clare Lennon, CUNY Graduate Center, Deirdre Oakley, and Erin Ruel, Georgia State

University ($516,000).

Georgia State University Research Initiation Grant. (2016-2017). “Mechanisms of Place: An Exploratory Analysis of

Atlanta.” Principal Investigator: Anne Shlay; Co-Principal Investigators: Deirdre Oakley, Erin Ruel, Katherine Hankins

and Cathy Liu ($25,000).

Georgia State University Internal Conference Grant: “W.E.B. Du Bois Atlanta School of Sociology Mini-Symposium.”

(Keynote: Dr. Aldon Morris). $3,000. Organizer: Deirdre Oakley. April 13, 2016.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Pew Charitable Trust (2012-2014). "Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Rebuilding

Galveston’s Public Housing after Hurricane Ike." Co-Principal Investigators Holly Avey and Deirdre Oakley; Co-

Investigator (GSU); Erin Ruel; Co-Investigator (University of Texas Medical Branch) Alexandra Nolen ($119,983).

Georgia State University Cities Initiative (2012-2013). "People and Places: Understanding the Complex Challenges of

Cities and Developing Effective Solutions." Co-Principal Investigators Spencer Banzhaf, Deirdre Oakley, and David

Sjoquist ($33,000).

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2011-2013) Environmental Health Core: Center for Excellence in Minority Health

Disparities (CoX) Pilot Study: “Out of the Frying Pan, Still in the Fire? The Varying Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution

among Relocated Public Housing Residents in Atlanta.” Principal Investigator, Michael Erikson; Co-Investigators Deirdre

Oakley and Erin Ruel ($30,000).

National Science Foundation (NSF) (2011-2013). “Crime, Social Networks, and Neighborhood Change.” Principal

Investigator, Lesley Reid; Co-Principal Investigators, Deirdre Oakley and Erin Ruel. ($200,000).

National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement (2011-2013). Principal Investigator

Lesley Reid; Co-Principal Investigators Deirdre Oakley and Erin Ruel ($18,750).

Galveston Housing Authority. (2011-2012). “Housing Galveston’s Future Project.” Principal Investigator, Deirdre

Oakley; Co-Investigator, Erin Ruel ($50,000).

National Institutes for Health (NIH) (2010-2012). “Variation in Health Outcomes within Disadvantaged Neighborhoods:

Person Environment Fit.” Principal Investigator, Erin Ruel; Co-Investigators, Deirdre Oakley, Katherine Hankins and

Kymberle Sterling. ($366,152).

National Institute for Health (NIH) (2010-2015) Research Core, Center for Excellence in Minority Health

Disparities.(CoX), Principal Investigators Michael Erikson and Rich Rothenberg; Co-Investigators, Rich Rothenberg,

Volkan Topalli, Scott Weaver, and Deirdre Oakley ($6.7 million).

CV-Oakley, P.13

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (2009-2010). “Bicycling For Transportation at Georgia State University.”

Principal Investigator, John Steward; Co-Investigators, Deirdre Oakley and Christine Stauber. ($9,999).

National Science Foundation (NSF) (2009-2010). “Patterns of Criminal Offending in the Wake of Neighborhood

Transformation.” Principal Investigator, Lesley Reid; Co-Principal Investigators, Deirdre Oakley and Erin Ruel.

($146,105).

National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates Supplement (2009-2010). Principal Investigator

Lesley Reid; Co-Principal Investigators Deirdre Oakley and Erin Ruel ($18,750).

University Research Services and Administration Interdisciplinary Team Grant Award, Georgia State University (2009-

2010). “Food Security and Obesity among Public Housing Residents.” Principal Investigator, Deirdre Oakley; Co-

Investigator, Dr. Murugi Ndirangu, Department of Nutrition ($14,991).

American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline (FAD) (2009-2010) "Journaling the

Public Housing Relocation Process:" Principal Investigator, Erin Ruel; Co-Principal Investigator, Deirdre Oakley

($7,000).

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) Regional Small Grants Program (2008-2009):

“Geographic Trends and Neighborhood Context of Public Housing Relocation in Metropolitan Atlanta: A Longitudinal

Analysis,” Principal Investigator, Deirdre Oakley; Co-Principal Investigator, Erin Ruel ($20,000).

Georgia State University (2008): “Urban Health and Well-Being Research Initiative: Atlanta Public Housing Relocation:

Documenting Residents’ Experiences and Outcomes.” Internal seed funding from: (1) Center for Neighborhood and

Metropolitan Studies; (2) College of Arts and Sciences; (3) Department of Sociology; (4) The Institute of Public Health.

Co-Principal Investigators, Deirdre Oakley and Erin Ruel ($36,000).

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Research Grant (2004-2006): “Brown v. Board of Education at 50:

Desegregation Orders and Public School Integration.” Principal Investigator, John R. Logan; Co-Principal Investigator,

Deirdre Oakley ($35,000).

National Poverty Center, University of Michigan Small Grants Program (2004-2005): “Evaluating the Federal

Empowerment Zone Program with Secondary Data Sources: 1990-2000.” Principal Investigator, Deirdre Oakley

($20,000).

• Honors, Awards and Recognition

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Student Loan Repayment Program Award, National Center on

Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) (2013-2014). “Neighborhood Disadvantage, Segregation, and Poor

Air Quality: Implications for Minority Health Disparities.”

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Student Loan Repayment Program Award, National Center on

Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) (2009-2011). “The Impact of Public Housing Relocation on Minority

Health Disparities.”

Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (2004), College of Arts and Sciences, University at Albany, (SUNY).

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Dissertation Research Award (2002-2003), ($25,000).

Allen E. Liska Dissertation Research Award (2002), Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of

New York. ($1,000).

Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) (1999), Graduate Student Paper Competition. First Place Award,

Conflict, Social Action and Change Division.

CV-Oakley, P.14

Special Recognition Award (1999) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SAMSHA Center for Mental Health

Services and Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness.

IV. INSTRUCTION AND ADVISING

• Teaching Positions

Position Institution Dates

Professor Georgia State University 2015-present

Associate Professor Georgia State University 2010-2015

Graduate Faculty Member Duke University 2011- 2013

Assistant Professor Georgia State University 2007-2010

Assistant Professor Northern Illinois University 2004-2007

Summer Instructor (Spatial Analysis) Inter-university Consortium for 2005-2007

Political & Social Research (ICPSR)*

*University of Michigan

Lecturer University at Albany (SUNY)* 1998-2004

*Department of Geography

Instructor University at Albany (SUNY)* 1998-2004

*Department of Sociology

Teaching Assistant University at Albany (SUNY* 1990-1993

*Department of Geography

B. Courses Taught

Georgia State University

Creative Korea Program: Visiting Undergraduate Students from Chonbuk

National University “Culture and Society” (January 22-February 5, 2015)

SOCI9050 Methods Topics: Program Evaluation (Graduate)

SOCI3390 Sociology of Media and Marketing

SOCI3222 Deviant Behavior

SOCI9050 Methods Topics: GIS and Spatial Analysis (Graduate)

SOCI4279/6279 Metropolitan Atlanta (Grad/Undergraduate)

SOCI9010 Multivariate Analysis (Graduate)

SOCI3212 Race and Ethnic Relations

SOCI4803 Race and Urban Studies

SOCI3226 Research Methods

SOCI1160 Social Problems

SOCI4226 Urban Sociology

SOCI8226 Urban Sociology (Graduate)

Northern Illinois University

SOC280 Foundations of Sociology

SOC552 Community Analysis (Graduate)

SOC377b Research Methods

SOC576 Research Methods (Graduate)

SOC280 Social Problems

SOC351 Urban Sociology

University at Albany (SUNY)

AGOG125 The American City

SOC 373 Community and Urban Sociology

AGOG220 Introduction to Urban Geography

SOC180m Social Problems

CV-Oakley, P.15 ICPSR Introduction to Spatial Analysis

• Graduate and Post-Graduate Mentorships

Georgia State University

Official Mentor, Doris Duke Fellowship for the Promotion of Child Well-Being

Clinton Boyd, Jr. (2016-2018).

Sponsoring Scientist, National Science Foundation (NSF) Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

LaShawDa Pittman (2011-2013).

MA Thesis Chair: Laquanda Jackson (Completed), Kelly Macon (Completed)

MA Thesis Committee Member: Angela Anderson (Completed), Anjenique Anderson (Completed), Amanda Dorrington

(Completed), Alexa Goidel, Tony Healy (Completed), Renee Alston (Completed), Nasim Flucker.

Ph.D. Chair: Benjamin Okonofua (Completed), Nia Reed (Ford Fellow), Keisha Tate, Jeremy Bennett (Completed),

Marcie Hambrick (Completed), Clinton Boyd and George Greenidge.

Ph.D. Committee Member: Barbara Combs (Completed), Ashely Brown-Burns (Duke University),(Completed), Pamela

Daniels (Completed), Akira Drake (Rutgers University),(Completed), Dwanda Farmer (University of Southern New

Hampshire) (Completed), Bobbi Jo Otto (Completed), Kelechi Uzochukwas (Andrew Young School of Public

Policy)(Completed), Linda Danuval, Elizabeth Otwell, Renee Skeete, Amanda Dorrington.

Northern Illinois University

MA Thesis/Practicum Chair: Jin You (Completed), Tetyana Skorokhod (Completed)

• Undergraduate Mentorship

Georgia State University

Faculty Mentor, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (2009-2011)

Faculty Supervisor, Public Housing Study Internship Program (2009-2012)

V. SERVICE

A. University

Georgia State University

Member, College of Arts and Science Strategic Planning Working Group on Cities, 2017-

Member, Undergraduate Council, College of Arts and Science, 2013-2016

Undergraduate Director, Department of Sociology, 2013-2016

Chair, Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 2013-2016

Member, Undergraduate Council, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013-2016

Member, Program Committee, Department of Sociology, 2013-2016

Member, Cities Initiative Drafting Committee, 2013.

Member, Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, 2013.

Chair, Race and Urban Section, Department of Sociology, 2012-2013.

Member, University Institutional Review Board (IRB) Committee, 2011-2014.

Member, Arts and Science College Curriculum Committee, 2010-2012.

Member, Center for Excellence on Minority Health Disparities Research Core Steering Committee, 2010-

Member, University Senate Academic Disciplinary Committee, 2010-2015

Member, University Senate, 2010-2012.

Chair, Partnership for Urban Health Research (PUHR) Steering Committee, 2010-2012.

Member, Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, 2010-2011.

Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 2010-2016

Sociopath, Department of Sociology, 2010-2013.

Member, Partnership for Urban Health Research (PUHR) Ad-hoc Committee, 2009-2010.

Chair, Methods Qualifying Exam Committee, 2009-2010.

Chair, Community Outreach Committee, Department of Sociology, 2009-2010.

CV-Oakley, P.16 Co-Chair, Technology Committee, Department of Sociology, 2009-2010.

Member, Colloquia Committee, Department of Sociology, 2007-2008.

Northern Illinois University

Chair, Student Selection and Awards Committee, Department of Sociology, 2006-2007.

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 2006-2007.

Member, Department of Sociology Council, 2006-2007.

Member, Student Awards Committee, Department of Sociology, 2005-2006.

B. Discipline and Community

Academic

Moderator, Comurb_R21 Urban and Community Listserv, 2016-

Member, Journal of Urban Affairs, Strategic Development Committee, 2015-

Member, Recognition Committee, “Contribution to the Field Award”, Urban Affairs Association 2015-2017.

Chair, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2016-2017.

Managing Editor (Housing and Economic Development ) Journal of Urban Affairs, 2015-

Co-Chair (with Bruce Haynes, UC Davis) Publications Committee, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American

Sociological Association, 2014-2015.

Member, Program Committee, Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, 2013 -

Member, Publications Committee, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2012 -

Chair, Bowdoin College Alumni Schools & Interviewing Committee (BASIC) for the Atlanta Region, 2011-2012.

Lynd Award Committee, Community & Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2011.

Nominations Committee, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association, 2011.

Council Member, Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2010-2013.

Committee on Nominations, American Sociological Association, 2010-2011.

Council Member, Community & Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2009-2012.

Member, Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association, 2010-present.

Archivist, Community & Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2009-present.

Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Southern, Sociological Society Annual Meeting, 2009-2010.

Park Award Committee, Community & Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association, 2008.

Chair, Sociology & Social Welfare Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2006-08.

Selection Committee, Education Problems Division Graduate Student Paper Awards, Society for the Study of Social

Problems, 2006.

Midwestern Sociological Society Conference Committee, 2006-2007.

Bowdoin College Alumni Schools & Interviewing Committee (BASIC), 2004- present.

Eastern Sociological Society Graduate Committee, 2002-2003.

Nordic Network on Homelessness Research Committee, 2000-2004.

Program Chair, American Public Health Association Caucus on Homelessness, 1999-2000.

Community

Contributor, Metro Atlanta Equity Atlas, Partnership for Southern Equity. 2013.

Board of Directors, Environmental Awareness Foundation (EAF), Atlanta, GA, 2008-2010.

YMCA, Invest in Youth Program, West Cook YMCA, Oak Park, IL, 2005-2007.

Editorial Committee: Homeless Working Group for the City of Albany. HUD Continuum of Care SuperNOFA

Applications FY 1997 –1999.

Board of Directors, Homeless Action Committee, Albany, NY: 1994-2000.

Outreach Van Volunteer, Homeless Action Committee, Albany, NY: 1993-95.

Board of Directors, Cucaracha Theatre, New York, NY: 1985-1990.

Volunteer, First Moravian Church Homeless Program, New York, NY: 1985-1987.

C. Professional Memberships

American Sociological Association

Association of Black Sociologists

Urban Affairs Association

D. Faculty Affiliations

Center for Neighborhood & Metropolitan Studies, College of Arts & Science, Georgia State University.

CV-Oakley, P.17 Partnership for Urban Health Research (PUHR) School of Health Sciences, Georgia State University.

VI. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Company Position Dates

Policy Research Associates, Inc. Research Associate I & II 1993-1999

(Delmar, NY)

Fortune Magazine, Time Warner Senior Copywriter 1989-1991

(New York, NY)

Family Circle Magazine, NYT, Inc. Copywriter 1988-1989

(New York, NY)

Business Month, (now Duns Business Month) Promotion Coordinator 1987-1988

Vanity Fair Magazine, Conde Nast Inc. Junior Copywriter/Promotion Asst. 1984-1987

(New York, NY)

REFERENCES

John R. Logan Susan Saegert

Professor Professor

Dept. of Sociology Dept. of Environmental Psychology

Brown University The City University of New York, Graduate Center

(401) 863-2267 365 5th Avenue, 6

th Floor

John_Logan@brown.edu New York, NY 10016

(212) 817-1886

ssaegert@gc.cuny.edu

Nancy Denton Lesley Reid

Professor Professor and Department Chair

Dept. of Sociology AS 351 Dept. of Criminal Justice

University at Albany, SUNY The University of Alabama

1400 Washington Avenue 425 Farrah Hall

Albany, NY 12222 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

(518) 442-4460 (205) 348-1792

n.denton@albany.edu lwreid@ua.edu