Faculty
Andrew Deener
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Education:
BA, Pennsylvania State University (Cultural Studies), 1999
MA, New School for Social Research (Sociology and History), 2002
MA, UCLA, 2004
Ph.D., UCLA, 2008 |
Personal Statement
I came to UConn in 2008 after receiving my PhD from UCLA. I’m working on several projects that tie together my interests in cities, markets, politics, and culture. Venice: Conflict and Community in Los Angeles is a forthcoming book from the University of Chicago Press. Based on six years of ethnographic and historical research, I examine how homelessness, immigration, and gentrification simultaneously transformed five adjacent neighborhoods in Venice since the 1970s, and why some sustained racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity while others became more exclusive.
I’m on leave from 2010 to 2012 as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. I’m working on a new ethnographic and historical project about how the market for fresh produce is created and how organizations help to overcome limited access by creating alternative supply chains in places where the market fails to go.
With Claudio Benzecry, I am also studying trend-forecasting agencies, second-rate clothing companies, and urban retail districts as a way to understand the micro-dynamics of trendsetting, specifically looking at how fashions are produced and reproduced in cities across the globe.
Education:
PhD 2008. University of California, Los Angeles (Sociology)
MA 2002. New School for Social Research (Sociology and Historical Studies)
BA 1999. Pennsylvania State University (Liberal Arts/Cultural Studies)
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Selected Publications:
Book:
Venice: Conflict and Community in Los Angeles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Forthcoming 2012.
Articles:
2011. (with Steve Erie, Vlad Kogan, and Forrest Stuart). “Planning LA: The New Politics of Neighborhood Development and Downtown Revitalization.” In New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future, edited by David Halle and Andrew A. Beverage. New York: Oxford University Press. [forthcoming]
2010. "The Decline of a Black Community by the Sea: The Impact of Demographic and Political Changes on Local Residents." In Black Los Angeles: Race, Community, and the American Dream, edited by Darnell Hunt. New York: New York University Press.
2010. "The 'Black Section' of the Neighborhood: Collective Visibility and Collective Invisibility as Sources of Place Identity." Ethnography 11(1): 45-67.
2009. "Forging Distinct Paths Towards Authentic Identity: Outsider Art, Public Interaction, and Identity Transition in an Informal Market Context.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 38(2): 169-200.
2007. " Commerce as the Structure and Symbol of Neighborhood Life: Reshaping the Meaning of Community in Venice, California." City and Community, 6:4 |
Curriculum Vitae
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University of Connecticut |