Research

GSS Faculty Highlights

Zachary Levenson

Monday March 4, 2024

GSS professor Zachary Levenson's new book, Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Resistance in a Post-Apartheid City is featured in a review forum at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Read commentaries from Malini Ranganathan, Ananya Roy, Nandita Sharma, and Yousuf Al-Bulushi, and Zach's response, at https://www.societyandspace.org/book-review-forums/delivery-as-dispossession-by-zachary-levenson

Mark B. Padilla

For nearly twenty years, Mark Padilla, Ph.D., has been conducting ethnographic and survey research on the social and political-economic structure of tourism areas in the Caribbean, focusing on the implications of tourism labor for the health and well being of local populations employed in this industry.

Matthew D. Marr

Matthew D. Marr, Ph.D., urban sociologist and ethnographer researches how homelessness is shaped by different social contexts in American and Japanese global cities in: Recovery Zone? Human Security at the Margins of American and Japanese Global Cities.