Andrew Deener

Professor of Sociology

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EDUCATION:

PhD., 2008, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., 2004, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., 2002, Sociology and History, New School for Social Research
B.A., 1999, Liberal Studies/Cultural Studies, Pennsylvania State University

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT:

My research focuses on urban inequality, culture, organizations, infrastructure, markets, and the environment, and it combines historical and ethnographic methods. My first book was Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles (University of Chicago Press, 2012). I recently completed The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020). I am currently writing a book about global urbanism (with Jonathan Wynn), and I am starting a new project about how climate change affects property valuations, risk assessments, and communities. I also write and teach about the logics of qualitative methods and the processes and practices of theorizing in sociology. 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Deener, Andrew. 2020. The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Benzecry, Claudio, Deener, Andrew, Lara-Millan (Co-Editors). Archival Work as Qualitative Sociology, Special Issue, 43(3), Qualitative Sociology.   

Deener, Andrew. 2018. “The Architecture of Ethnographic Knowledge: Narrowing Down Data and Contexts in Search of Sociological Cases.” Sociological Perspectives, 61(2): 295-313. 

Deener, Andrew. 2017. “The Uses of Ambiguity in Sociological Theorizing: Three Ethnographic Approaches.” Sociological Theory, 35(4): 359-379 

Deener, Andrew. 2017. “The Origins of the Food Desert: Urban Inequality as Infrastructural Exclusion.” Social Forces, 95(3): 1285-1309. 

Deener, Andrew. 2016. “The Ecology of Neighborhood Participation and the Reproduction of Political Conflict.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 40(4): 817-832. 

Aronowitz, Robert, Deener, Andrew, Keene, Danya, Schnittker, Jason, and Tach, Laura. 2015. “The Pitfalls of Invoking Cultural Change to Improve Population Health.” American Journal of Public Health. 105(S3): 403-408. 

Deener, Andrew, Erie, Steven, Kogan, Vlad, Stuart, Forrest. 2013. “Planning Los Angeles: Neighborhood and Downtown Development.” In Halle, David and Andrew Beveridge (editors), New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future. New York: Oxford University Press. 

Deener, Andrew. 2012. Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

Deener, Andrew. 2010. “The ‘Black Section’ of the Neighborhood: Collective Visibility and Collective Invisibility as Sources of Place Identity.” Ethnography, 11(1): 45-67. 

Deener, Andrew. 2009. “Forging Distinct Paths Toward Authentic Identity: Outsider Art, Public Interaction, and Identity Transition in an Informal Market Context.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 38(2): 169-200. 

Deener, Andrew. 2007. “Commerce as the Structure and Symbol of Neighborhood Life: Reshaping the Meaning of Community in Venice, California.” City and Community, 6(4): 291-314.