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Keynote Speaker - Sharon Zukin

Keynote Speaker Information:

Sharon Zukin
Broeklundian Professor of Sociology
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Brooklyn, New York 11210
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City University Graduate School
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
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Higher Education:
Barnard College, A.B. cum laude, 1967
Columbia University, Ph.D. with distinction, 1972

Teaching Experience:
City University Graduate School, Ph.D. Program in Sociology, Professor 1986-
Brooklyn College, Department of Sociology
Professor 1985-
Associate Professor 1979-84
Assistant Professor 1973-78
Columbia University, Department of Sociology
 Lecturer 1972-73

Languages:
French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian
Reading knowledge of Czech and Spanish

Academic and Professional Honors:

• Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, June 2005 (invited)
• Visiting Professor, Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program University of Oklahoma, January 2005
• Keynote speaker, INURA conference on “Creative Cities,” Amsterdam, June 2004
• 1st Annual Docklands Lecture, University of East London, June 2004
• Keynote speaker, “Re-imagining Downtown,” European Union Conference on European Cities, Copenhagen, November 2002
• Keynote speaker, “Whose Housing?  Whose City,?” Annual conference of the European Network on Housing Research, Vienna, July 2002
• Keynote presentation, “New York as a Culture Capital: Loft Living Plus 20,” Conference on Culture Industries, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 2000
• Keynote lecture, “Landscapes of Memory, Fear, and Power,” Conference on Landscapes of Depopulation, Humanities Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, March 2000
• STICERD visiting fellowship, London School of Economics, 1999-2000 (deferred)
• Keynote speaker, Environmental Design Research Association Annual Conference, Orlando, June 1999
• 13th Annual Urban Studies Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, 1997
• Irene Flecknoe Ross Lectures, University of California at Los Angeles, 1997-98
• Broeklundian Professor, Brooklyn College, 1996-
• C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 1992
• Resident Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, 1989-90
• Visiting Scholar, Groupe de sociologie du travail, Universite de Paris VII-Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, 1980-81
• Visiting Scholar, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, 1975-76
• Doctoral dissertation nominated for Ansley Award, Columbia University, 1972
  Phi Beta Kappa, 1967

Fellowships and Research Awards:

• Florence J. Gould Fellowship, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Jourdan, Paris, 2007
• American Sociological Association travel grant to International Sociological Association congress, Durban, South Africa, 2006
• British Academy Visiting Professorship, 2004
• Wolfe Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000-01
• City University of New York, PSC-CUNY Research Award (Sociology), 1980, 1989-92, 1993-94, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2002-4, 2004-5, 2005-6, 2006-7
• City University of New York, PSC-CUNY Research Award (Urban Research), 1978, 1985, 1987, 1994-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1999-2000
• SSRC-Fulbright Research Fellowship (France), 1982
• National Science Foundation research grant (joint award in Political Science and Sociology), 1981
• German Marshall Fund of the United States research fellowship, 1980-81
• American Association of University Women research fellowship, 1980 (declined)
• IREX postdoctoral research fellowship (Yugoslavia), 1978-79
• Postdoctoral fellowship, Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University, 1972-73
• IREX dissertation fellowship (Yugoslavia), 1970-71
• Foreign Areas dissertation fellowship, 1970-72
• American Council of Learned Societies travel and study grant (Yugoslavia), 1969
• NDEA Graduate Fellowship, 1968-69
• NDFL Graduate Fellowship, 1967-68
• Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, 1967-70
• NDFL travel and study grant (Soviet Union), 1966
• Barnard College and Philadelphia Board of Education, college scholarships, 1963-67

Publications:

• Books -
  • Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture (New York and London: Routledge, 2004)
    • Television interviews:
      • CBS Evening News, December 12, 2003; New York Voices, WNET (PBS, New York), January 30, 2004
    • Radio interviews:
      • Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, November 6, 2003
      • Afternoon Magazine, WILL (NPR, Urbana), November 19, 2003
      • McMullen & Johnson Show, Sirius Radio, November 20, 2003
      • Conversations with Joy Cardin, Wisconsin Public Radio, November 28, 2003;
      • To The Point, KCRW (NPR, Los Angeles), December 1, 2003 (this program won a Los Angeles Press Club Award in 2004)
      • On Point, WBUR (NPR, Boston), December 12, 2003
      • Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC (NPR, New York), December 22, 2003
      • On the Mark with Norman Mark, KNWZ (Palm Springs), December 27, 2003
      • WUVM (Milwaukee Public Radio), April 2, 2004
      • New Horizons…With Bob Kustra, WBSU (NPR, Idaho), April 2004
      • To The Point, KCRW (NPR, Los Angeles), December 30, 2004
      • Ben Merens Show,Wisconsin Public Radio, April 2005
      • Deutschland Radio, October 2005; Métropolitains, France Culture, July 2006
    • Print interviews:
      • South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), August 5, 2001
      • NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), May 6, 2003
      • FoodPersonality Assortiment (Netherlands), October 2003
      • Seattle Times, November 2003
      • Ft. Worth Star Telegram, December 2003
      • Kristeligt Dagblad (Denmark), December 13, 2003
      • Christian Science Monitor, December 2003
      • L’Officiel (France), January 2004
      • Il Sole/24 Ore (Italy), January 2004
      • Chicago Tribune, February 29, 2004
      • “Consumed” column, New York Times Magazine, March 7, 2004
      • Catholic Digest, April 2004
      • “Q&A: Sharon Zukin,” ID Magazine, May 2004
      • City Section, New York Times, May 2, 2004
      • Los Angeles Daily News, December 9, 2004
      • Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 20, 2005
      • Cosmopolitan (Finnish ed.), September 2005
      • Baltimore Sun, September 4, 2005
      • International Herald Tribune, November 2005
    • Book talks:
      • Gotham Center, City University Graduate Center, November 10, 2003
      • Municipal Arts Society, New York City, April 29, 2004
      • Summer Teachers’ Institute, Virginia Historical Society and Chesterfield County (Virginia) public schools, August 18, 2005
      • Authors’ Series, Mid-Manhattan Branch, New York Public Library, September 19, 2005
    • Essays:
      • Op-Ed Page, New York Times, November 28, 2003
      • Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), December 19, 2003
      • Perspective section, cover page, Newark Star-Ledger, April 17, 2005
    • Recommended as an educational resource
    • Excerpt reprinted in Brooklyn College Magazine, Spring 2004
  • The Cultures of Cities (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995)
    • Translated into Chinese, Shanghai: Shanghai Education Publication (forthcoming)
    • Television interview:
      • Bringing People Together, TV1 YLE (Helsinki), taped September 2004
    • Print interviews:
      • Carl Grodach, “Culture and Cities: A Conversation With Sharon Zukin,”
      • Critical Planning (student-run journal of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning) 10 (Summer 2003): 5-11
      • “Special Interview,” Bio-City (Japan) no. 18 (2000): 112-17
    • Web-based interviews:
      • (2005)
    • Excerpt reprinted in The Urban Design Reader, ed. Matthew Carmona and Steven Tiesdell (London: Architectural Press, in process)
    • Excerpt reprinted in The Urban Sociology Reader, ed. Chris Mele and Jan Lin (New York: Routledge, 2005)
    • Excerpt reprinted in Urban Culture: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Chris Jenks (London and New York: Routledge, 2004)
    • Excerpt reprinted in Espaco & Debates (Brazil), no. 43-44 (fall 2003)
    • Excerpt reprinted in Reading Retail: A Geographical Perspective on Retailing and Consumption Spaces, ed. Neil Wrigley and Michelle Lowe (London / New York: Arnold / Oxford University Press, 2002)
    • Excerpt reprinted in Readings in Urban Theory, ed. Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell (Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2000)
    • Excerpt reprinted in The City Reader, 2nd ed., ed. Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout (New York and London: Routledge, 2000); 3rd ed. (2003)
    • Excerpt reprinted in The Consumer Society Reader, ed. Martyn Lee (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
    • Excerpt reprinted in Understanding Cities, ed. Steve Pile et al. (London: Routledge-Open University, 1999)
    • Excerpt reprinted in Cities and Urban Life, ed. John J. Macionis and Vincent N. Parrillo (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, 1998)
    • Excerpt reprinted in The Politics of Urban America, ed. Dennis R. Judd and Paul Kantor, (Boston: Allyn & Bacon,1997)
  • Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991)
    • Winner of the C. Wright Mills Award Translated into Portuguese, Sao Paolo: Studio Nobel, 1997
    • Print interview:
      • “Landscapes of Power,” in Wisdom for Designing a Sustainable Future, ed. Keiro Hattori (Tokyo: Kajima Institute Publishing Co., 2006), pp. 169-79
    • “Gentrification, Cuisine, and the Critical Infrastructure,” reprinted in Cities and Society ed. Nancy Kleniewski (Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 183-94 -----  reprinted in Sociological Review of Kobe University 21 (2004): 108-26
    • Excerpt reprinted in The Blackwell City Reader, ed. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (Malden MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 197-207
    • "Real Cultural Capital," reprinted in The Economic Geography Reader: Producing and Consuming Global Capitalism, ed. John Bryson et al. (London: John Wiley, 1999)
    • "Disney World: The Power of Facade / The Facade of Power," reprinted in Undoing Place?  A Geographical Reader, ed. Linda McDowell (London: Edward Arnold, 1998)
  • Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982 English ed. with postscript and foreword by David Harvey, London: Radius / Hutchinson, 1988; U.S. paperback ed., Rutgers University Press, 1989)
    • Noted as one of the best books on the arts in New York City
    • Recent print interviews:
      • Minneapolis Star-Tribune, June 2004
  • "The Creation of a 'Loft Lifestyle,'" reprinted in Lotus International 66 (1990): 17-28
• Beyond Marx and Tito: Theory and Practice in Yugoslav Socialism (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
• Edited books -
  • (co-edited with Michael Sorkin,) After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (New York and London: Routledge, 2002)
    • Noted as one of the best books in architecture in 2002 by the New York Times
    • Featured book of the month, June 2002, Urban Center Books
    • Authors’ events:
      • BookExpo, New York City, May 2002
      • Barnes & Noble, Union Square, May 2002;
      • Museum of the City of New York, September 2002
    • Radio interviews:
      • Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC (National Public Radio, New York), June 2002
      • Doug Henwood Show, WBAI (New York), August 2002
    • Print and online interviews:
      • (May 2002)
      • Financial Times (May 29, 2002)
      • Reuters, Le Figaro (France), and Diario de Noticias (Spain) (September 2002)
• (co-edited with Paul DiMaggio,) Structures of  Capital: The Social Organization of the Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
• Industrial Policy:
  • Business and Politics in the United States and France (New York: Praeger, 1985)
• Chapters in edited books -
  • “David Harvey on Cities,” in The David Harvey Reader, ed. Noel Castree and Derek Gregory (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 102-20
  • “Globalization and Urban Culture,” commissioned for The State of the World’s Cities, United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, Nairobi, March 2004
  • “Clayoquot and the Cultures of Nature,” in A Political Space: Reading the Global Through Clayoquot Sound, ed. Warren Magnusson and Kara Shaw (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), pp. 250-62
  • “Introduction” (with Michael Sorkin), pp. vii-xi, and “Our World Trade Center,” pp. 13-21, in After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City (New York and London: Routledge, 2002)
  • “How to Create a Culture Capital: Reflections on Urban Markets and Places,” in Century City, ed. Iwona Blazwick (London: Tate Publishing, 2001), pp. 258-65
  • “Paisagens do seculo XXI: Notas sobre a mudanca social e o espaco urbano,” in O espaco da diferenca, ed. Antonio A. Arantes (Campinas, Sao Paolo: Papirus, 2000), pp. 104-15
  • “Billboards are Public Art in the Money Economy,” in Wall Power, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2000
  • “Times Square,” pp. 256-8 in The City A to Z, ed. Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift (London: Routledge, 2000)
  • “Politics and Aesthetics of Public Space: The ‘American’ Model,’” pp. 37-42 in Ciutat real,ciutat ideal, ed. Pep Subiros (Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporania, 1999)
  • "Cities and the Symbolic Economy [in German]," pp. 27-40 in Kultur in der Stadt, ed. Volker Kirchberg and Albrecht Goeschel (Opladen [Germany]: Leske & Budrich, 1998)
  • (with Priscilla Ferguson,) "The Careers of Chefs," pp. 92-111 in Eating Culture, ed. Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998)
  • "Loft Living," in Encyclopedia of Housing, ed. Willem van Vliet (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1998)
  • "Cultural Strategies and Urban Identities: Remaking Public Space in New York," pp. 205-17 in Cities in Transformation--Transformation in Cities, ed. O. Kalltorp et al. (Aldershot: Avebury, U.K. and Brookfield, VT, 1997)
  • "Cultural Strategies of Economic Development and the Hegemony of Vision," pp. 223-43 in The Urbanization of Injustice, ed. Andrew Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1996)
  • "Power in the Symbolic Economy," pp. 144-50 in Reflections on Architectural Practices in the Nineties, ed. William S. Saunders (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996)
  • "Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline," pp. 43-59 in Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital, and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis, ed. Anthony D. King (London: Macmillan, 1996)
    • Reprinted in The City Cultures Reader, ed. Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall and Iain Borden (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 81-91
  • "Hochkultur und 'wilder' Kommerz: wie New York wieder zu einem kulturellen Zentrum werden soll," ["High Culture and 'Wild' Commerce: Redeveloping a Center for the Arts in New York City"], pp. 264-85 in New York, Strukturen einer Stadt, ed. Hartmut Haeussermann and Walter Siebel (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1993)
    • Featured on German Radio WDR 3, "Am Abend vorgestellt: Stadtgeschichten" (August 12, 1993)
  • "The City as a Landscape of Power," pp. 195-223 in Global Finance and Urban Living, ed. Leslie Budd and Sam Whimster (London: Routledge, 1992)
    • Reprinted in The Global Cities Reader, ed. Neil Brenner and Roger Keil (London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
  • "Postmodern Urban Landscapes: Mapping Culture and Power," pp. 221-47 in Modernity and Identity, ed. Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
    • Reprinted in O espaco da diferenca, ed. Antonio A. Arantes (Campinas, Sao Paolo: Papirus, 2000), pp. 80-103
    • Reprinted in The Sociology of Urban Communities, v. 3, ed. Michael Harloe (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996), pp. 373-99
    • Reprinted in Revista do Patrimonio Historico e Artistico Nacional (Brazil), no. 24 (1996): 205-19
  • "The Hollow Center: U.S. Cities in the Global Era," pp. 245-61 in America at Century's End, ed. Alan Wolfe (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991)
  • (with Michael Schwartz,) "La desindustrialisation en France et aux Etats-Unis: structures convergentes, institutions differenciees," pp. 121-29 in France-U.S.A.: Les crises du travail et de la production, ed. Pierre Bouvier and Olivier Kourchid (Paris: Meridiens Klincksieck, 1988)
  • "Il socialismo jugoslavo," pp. 637-58 in La Storia, vol. IX, ed. Nicola Tranfaglia and Massimo Firpo (Turin: UTET, 1986)
  • "Self-Management and Socialization," pp. 76-99 in Yugoslavia in the 80s, ed. Pedro Ramet (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1985)
  • "Industrial Policy as Post-Keynesian Politics," pp. 3-47 in Industrial Policy, ed. Zukin (see above)
  • "Development and Persistence of the Yugoslav State," pp. 249-76 in The State in Socialist Society, ed. Neil Harding (London: Macmillan/Oxford: St. Antony's College, 1984)
  • "Sources of Dissent and Non-Dissent in Yugoslavia," pp.117-37 in Dissent in Eastern Europe, ed. Jane L. Curry (New York: Praeger, 1983)
• Articles and essays (excluding book reviews) -
  • “Loft Living” and “Shopping,” Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, ed. Ray Hutchison (Sage, forthcoming)
  • “Reading The Urban Villagers as a Cultural Document:  Ethnicity, Modernity, and Capital,” City and Community, forthcoming
  • “A Nation Divided: Public Space in New York City,” Dossiers urbains, forthcoming
  • “Consuming Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion,” Cultural Studies, forthcoming
  • “Jane Jacobs: The Struggle Continues,” City and Community, forthcoming
  • “Shopping,” Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. George Ritzer (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming)
  • “Democracy Divided: Public Space in New York City,” Re-public: Re-imagining Democracy, August 2006
  • “Où sont passés les cafés du coin?”, Ethnologie française 36, 4 (2006): 757-60
  • “Consumption,” International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, ed. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski (London: Routledge, 2006)
  • (with Gina Neff and Betsy Wissinger,) “Entrepreneurial Labor Among Cultural Producers: ‘Cool’ Jobs in ‘Hot’ Industries,” Social Semiotics 15, 3 (2005): 307-34
  • “Fearing Fear Itself,” Currents section, New York Newsday, July 31, 2005
  • “To Shop, Perchance to Dream,” Perspective section, Newark Star-Ledger, April 17, 2005
  • “Blockbuster Mall: How to See Time Warner Center,” Contexts 4, 1 (Winter 2005): 60-63
  • (with Jennifer Smith Maguire,) “Consumers and Consumption,” Annual Review of Sociology 30 (2004): 173-97
    • Reprinted in Consumer Behaviour, ed. Margaret Hogg (London: Sage Library in Business and Management, forthcoming) 
  • (with Ervin Kosta,) “Bourdieu Off-Broadway: Managing Distinction on a Shopping Block in the East Village,” City and Community 3 (2004): 101-14
  • “Attention, Shoppers: Your Dreams in Aisle 3,” Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), December 19, 2003
    • Reprinted in The Writer’s Response: A Reading-Based Approach to College Writing, ed. Stephen McDonald and William Salomone (Wadsworth, forthcoming)
  • “We Are Where We Shop,” Op-Ed Page, New York Times, November 28, 2003
  • “What’s Space Got to Do With It?” (A Reply to Herbert Gans), City and Community 1 (2002): 345-8
  • “River to River: Whose Downtown?,” Gotham Gazette, July 9, 2002
  • “Las culturas de la naturaleza: sobre la destruccion del bosque en la Columbia Britanica,” Revista, Universidad de Guadalajara, Verano 2000: 21-7
  • "How 'Bad' Is It?: Institutions and Intentions in the Study of the American Ghetto," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 22, 3 (1998): 511-20
  • "Urban Lifestyles: Diversity and Standardization in Consumption Spaces," Urban Studies [special issue on urban consumption] 35, 5-6 (1998): 825-39
  • (with Robert Baskerville et al.,) "From Coney Island to Las Vegas in the Urban Imaginary: Discursive Practices of Growth and Decline," Urban Affairs Review 33 (1998): 625-53
  • "Landscapes of Economic Value," Center (Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas, Austin) 10 (1997): 135-46
  • "Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish" (invited brief essay), Contemporary Sociology 25 (1996): 463
  • "Comment" on Smith and David, "The House of Xidi Sukur," Current Anthropology 36 (1995): 465-66
  • "The Mystique of Visual Culture," Journal of Architecture (University of Waterloo), 2 (1994): 16-23
  • "The Postmodern Invasion" (review essay), International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16 (1992): 489-95
  • (with Louis Amdur et al.,) "The Bubbling Cauldron: Global and Local Interactions in New York City Restaurants," Comparative Urban and Community Research 4 (1992): 105-32
  • "Socio-Spatial Prototypes of a New Organization of Consumption: The Role of Real Cultural Capital," Sociology 24 (1990): 37-56
  • (with Michael Schwartz,) "Deindustrialization in the United States and France: Structural Convergence, Institutional Contrast," Political Power and Social Theory 7 (1988): 293-320
    • Reprinted in Modernizzazione? Industrialismo,  Innovazione e rapporti di classe, Problemi del Socialismo 2-3 (1988):108-37
  • "Paris-New York: The True Value of Art," French Politics and Society 6, no. 4 (October 1988): 39-42
  • "The Postmodern Debate Over Urban Form," Theory, Culture Society 5 (1988): 431-46
  • "Our East European Telos," Telos 75 (Spring 1988): 47-51
  • (with Gilda Zwerman,) "Housing Ethnic and Racial   Minorities in New York City: Jews and Blacks in Brownsville," New Community 14 (1988): 347-55
  • "Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core," Annual Review of Sociology 13 (1987): 129-47
    • Reprinted in The Urban Sociology Reader, ed. Chris Mele and Jan Lin (New York: Routledge, forthcoming)
  • "Markets and Politics in France's Declining Regions," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 5, no. 1 (Fall 1985): 40-57
  • (with Gilda Zwerman,) "Housing for the Working Poor: A Historical View of Jews and Blacks in Brownsville," New York Affairs 9, no. 2 (1985): 3-18
  • "The Regional Challenge to French Industrial Policy," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 9 (1985): 352-67
  • "Yugoslavia at the Edge," Worldview, September 1984, pp. 18-21
  • "French Socialists vs. Deindustrialization: The State in the World Economy," Telos 55 (Spring 1983):139-51
  • "Loft Living as 'Historic Compromise' in the Urban Core," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 6 (1982): 256-67
  • "Art in the Arms of Power: Market Relations and Collective Patronage in the Capitalist State," Theory and Society 11 (1982): 423-51
  • "Workers' Self-Management Without a Working Class: The Role of Yugoslav Labor Unions," Politics and Society 10 (1981): 199-234
  • "Beyond Titoism," Telos 44 (Summer 1980): 3-24
  • "Ou en est l'autogestion yougoslave?" Autogestions (Paris) 1 (1980): 111-21
  • "A Decade of the New Urban Sociology," Theory and Society 9 (1980): 575-601
  • "The Problem of Social Class Under Socialism," Theory and Society 6 (1978): 391-427
  • "Introduction to the 'Belgrade Manifesto,'" Telos 35 (Spring 1978): 184-85
  • "The Paris Conference on Self-Management," Telos 34 (Winter 1977-78): 148-57
  • "Mimesis in the Origins of Bourgeois Culture," Theory and Society 4 (1977): 333-58
  • "In Defense of Benign Neglect and Diversity," New York Times, Sunday, February 13, 1977
  • "The Height of Capitalism," Op-Ed Page, New York Times, Sunday, September 7, 1975
  • "The Case of the 'Belgrade Eight,'" Telos 19 (Spring 1974): 138-41

Editor of Book Series:

• Series on “Cultural Spaces,” Routledge (New York), announced 2000: Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, ed., After the World Trade Center (2002)
• Michael Indergaard, Silicon Alley: The Rise of a New Media District (2004)
• Catherine Gudis, Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape (2004)
• Kevin Hetherington, Capitalism’s Eye: Cultural Spaces of the Commodity (under contract)
• Gregor Benton, Chinatowns (under contract); Juan Flores, The Diaspora Strikes Back (under contract)
• Miriam Greenberg, Branding New York (under contract)

Conference Roles and Lectures since 1990:

• Session organizer and presider, Consumers and Consumption, Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, August 2006
• Invited presentation, thematic symposium on “The Arts in Globalizing Cities,” World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July 2006
• Session organizer and presider, “The Changing Cultures of Cities,” World Congress of Sociology, Durban, July 2006
• Invited presentation, “Digitizing Tuscany: How Modes of Perception Shape the Shopping Experience,” Conference on Cities, Media, and Digital Technology, Northwestern University, May 2006
• Panelist, “Real Estate for Artists and Creative Professionals,” Pratt Institute, April 2006
• Public lecture, "The Billboard and the Garden: Publicity, Authenticity, and Democracy in the City's Public Spaces," and master class, “All the World's A Store: Standardization, Globalization, and Shopping as a Distinctive Social Event," Cornell University, March 2006
• Chair, session on the fashion industry in New York City, Conference on “The Fabric of Culture: Fashion and Globalization,” City University Graduate Center, March 2006
• Invited presentation on “The Place of Shopping: How Urban Consumption Spaces Construct Authenticity,” thematic session, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, February 2006
• Invited presentation at panel, “The Moving Edge: The Place of Downtown Art in New York City,” New York University, February 2006
• Keynote lecture on “Whose Freedom?  Whose City?: Complexity and Contradiction in Urban Public Space,” Seminar on Rebuilding / Reconstructing the Cities, Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, December 2005
• Invited lecture, “Les espaces de consommation de New York: au carrefour de la mondialisation et de la vie de quartier,” Institut d’urbanisme de Paris, November 2005
• Invited lecture, “Shopping as an Urban Problem,” Urban Planning Program, School of Architecture, Columbia University, October 2005
• Invited panelist, “The Changing Commercial Landscape of Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Historical Society, September 2005
• Point of Purchase is focus of “Author Meets Critics” session, Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March 2005
• Public lecture, “Branding: Changing the Space of Shopping,” Fashion Studies Forum, City University Graduate Center, March 2005
• Discussant, “Do Jobs Build Cities or Do Cities Build Jobs,” Urban Age Conference, London School of Economics, New York City, February 2005
• “Shopping and Public Culture,” F. Ross Johnson / Connaught Distinguished Speaker Series, Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto, February 2005
• Invited lecture, “The Two Cities,” on cultural strategies of urban redevelopment, Eurocult 21, and lecture on shopping and urban public life, City Planning Department, Helsinki, September 2004
• “ How to Produce Consumers: What Shopping Tells Us About Social Structure,” invited presentation, joint session, economic sociology and sociology of culture, Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2004
• “Creative Cities,” keynote speech to INURA annual conference, Amsterdam, June 2004
• “Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture,” Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam, June 2004
• “Reimagining the Olympics Spectacle: Body, City, Nation,” 1st Annual Docklands Lecture, University of East London, June 2004
• Public lecture on “Globalization and Urban Culture” and lecture on shopping to sociology department, Boise State University, April 2004
• “Updating the Arcades Project: How Shopping Changed American Culture,” Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2004
• “Shopping and Public Culture,” Conference on Public Culture and Democracy, Miami University (Ohio), March 2004
• “Point of Purchase: Shopping and Metropolitan Regions,” Yale University faculty seminar in urban studies, February 2004
• Organizer and presenter, thematic session on cultures of consumption, Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003
• Invited participant, special session on cultural approaches to cities, Annual Meetings, American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 2003
• Invited paper, “Home Shopping in the Global Marketplace,” Colloquium on “Les sens du mouvement: Modernite et mobilites,” Cerisy-la-Salle, June 2003
• Public lecture, “The End of the Local as We Know It,” Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research and De Balie Center, Amsterdam, April 2003
• Keynote speaker, “Re-imagining Downtown,” European Union Conference on European Cities, Copenhagen, November 2002
• Invited participant, Pew Charitable Trusts 6th Annual Summer Cultural Policy Meeting, Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, July 2002
• Keynote speaker, “Whose Housing?  Whose City,?” Annual conference of the European Network on Housing Research, Vienna, July 2002
• Invited panelist, Conference “Evolve New York,” Columbia School of Architecture, May 2002
• Panelist, “30 Years of Urban Studies,” Presidential Inauguration, Connecticut College, May 2002
• Panelist, “Creative Cities—Rebuilding New York,” Conference on Culture, Development, Economy, New York University, April 2002
• “Shopping and Cultures of Consumption,” invited presentation, Conference on Economic Sociology, Princeton University, February 2002
• “After the World Trade Center,” invited lecture, State Policy Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, February 2002
• Invited presentations on the destruction of the World Trade Center: CUNY website, February 2002; Columbia School of Architecture conference, February 2002; Planners’ Network forum, New York City, October 2001; New York University panel discussion, October 2001
• Organizer and presider, thematic session on urban aesthetics, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Anaheim, August 2001
• Invited presentation, thematic session on cities and power, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Anaheim, August 2001
• Invited presentation, special session on cities and cyberspace, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association, Anaheim, August 2001
• Invited speaker, seminar on “Cultures of World Cities,” Central Policy Unit, Government of SAR Hong Kong, July 2001
• Invited participant, workshop on “The Role of Cities in Urban Restructuring,” National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., May 2001
• “Racism at Tiffany’s?  The ‘Doubling’ of Black Shoppers,” invited lecture, Seminar on Reading the City, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, April 2001
• Invited presentation, panel on New York City, Association of American Geographers, Annual Meetings, New York, February 2001
• Organizer and chair, panel on “Globalizing Disney,” Conference on the Disney Company, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, November 2000
• “Shopping in the City,” invited presentation in Seminar on Culture, Northwestern University, October 2000
• Invited participant, workshop on “Museums and the Public Sphere,” Rockefeller Foundation, New York, September 2000
• “New York as a Culture Capital: Loft Living Plus 20,” Keynote presentation, Conference on Culture Industries, Manchester Metropolitan University, September 2000
• “Cultural Inequalities,” co-organizer and presenter, special session on spatial inequalities, American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000
• “Racism at Tiffany’s: Does Shopping Make People Equal?”, special session on consumption and social justice, American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 2000
• Invited discussant, panel on space and place, conference of the Section on the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, George Mason University, August 2000
• “The Culture Sector in Global Cities,” Rice University, Houston, April 2000
• “Shopping as a Cultural Field,” colloquium, Department of Sociology, Yale University, March 2000
• Comment, Panel on “The Big Buildup: The Role of the Arts in Urban Redevelopment,” National Arts Journalism Program, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, March 2000
• “Landscapes of Memory, Fear, and Power,” Keynote lecture, Conference on Landscapes of Depopulation, Humanities Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, March 2000
• “The Billboard and the Garden: Who Owns Public Space in New York City?”  Conference on Public Culture and the Changing Space of Citizenship in the Modern and Postmodern City: Berlin and New York, New York University, February 2000
• “Sic Transit: The Airport as a Landscape of Power,” Conference on Airports, Stansted Airport, London, July 1999
• “The Disney Hydra: Imagineering the Urban Imaginary,” Keynote Address, Annual Conference, Environmental Design Research Association, Orlando, June 1999
• Invited participation in panel on “Location, Location, Location: Gentrification, Real Estate, and Artists,” Committee for the 21st Century of Skowhegan, Williamsburg (Brooklyn), May 1999
• Invited presentation, panel on “Monster Signs: Advertising Dominates Architecture,” Municipal Art Society, New York, May 1999
• Presentation (with Gina Neff and Betsy Wissinger), "Models, New Media, and the Metropolis," Eastern Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston, March 1999
• Invited presentation, "Let's Shop: A Framework for Research on Consumption," Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, February 1999
• Invited paper (with Gina Neff and Betsy Wissinger), "Flexible Labor in Urban 'Glamour' Industries: Fashion Models and New Media Producers," Conference on City, State and Region in a Global Order, Hiroshima University, December 1998
• Invited presentation to faculty, "Shopping, Teaching, and ****: Integrating Cultural Studies with Social Science," Union College, Schenectady, New York, October 1998
• Invited paper, "Framing the Goods: Mediation of Consumption as a Cultural Field," special session on the commodification of culture, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1998
• Invited lecture, "Studying Racial Ghettos," Department of Anthropology, University College London, May 1998
• Invited paper, "Shopping Stories," Workshop on Consumption, University College London, May 1998
• Invited presentation, Conference on the Privatization of Culture in the 21st Century, New York University-The New School, May 1998
• Public lecture, "While the City Shops: Race, Class, and Consumption Spaces in Urban Redevelopment," Amherst College, April 1998
• Invited presentation, Conference "De urbe et orbe," New York University, April 1998
• Final two lectures in Ross Series, UCLA, January 1998 (see April 1997)
• Public lecture, "The Aestheticization of Public Space," in series organized by Humboldt University, Technical University, and Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, November 1997, and lecture on "Shopping and Social Structure," Potsdam University, November 1997
• Invited panel member, "Wall Street: The Rebirth of a Neighborhood," Cosmopolitan Club, New York, November 1997
• 13th Annual Lecturer in Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania, October 1997
• Invited lecture, Barcelona Debate 1997, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, October 1997
• Organizer and presider, "Race and Ethnicity in Global Cities"; organizer, "Are We Writing About Immigrants or About the Post-Colonial City"; and discussant, "The Life and Death of North American Cities"; Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, August 1997
• Invited discussant, "Cities in Transition," Congress of Research Committee 21, International Sociology Association, Berlin, July 1997
• Invited participant, Workshop on Environmental Politics, Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, May 1997
• Irene Flecknoe Ross lecture series, "Languages and Spaces of Consumption," Department of Sociology, UCLA, April 1997
• Invited plenary presentation on "Landscapes of the 21st Century," Conference on Global Flows and Cityscapes, University of Sao Paolo-Campinas (Brazil), December 1996
• Invited paper (coauthored with Ph.D. students), "Coney Island as Las Vegas's Other," Symposium on The Themed Unreality of America's Cities, College of Architecture, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, October 1996
• Invited speaker, panel on approaches to studying cities, Social Science History Association annual conference, New Orleans, October 1996
• Invited speaker, "Cultural Strategies of Economic Development," Conference on What is a City?:  Urban Image, Boosterism, or Development, University of Missouri-St. Louis, September 1996
• Organizer and presider, panel on "What Happened to the Urban Agenda?" Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 1996
• Invited presentation on "Representing New York's Symbolic Economy," panel on "New York Culture: Beyond 'High' and 'Low,'" Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, August 1996
• Invited paper (coauthored with Ph.D. students), "Coney Island and Las Vegas: Cultural Images of Urban Decay and Urban Growth," Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City, August 1996
• Invited speaker, Forum on "The Future of Downtown," Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture, New York City, May 1996
• Invited speaker on the Regional Plan, Program on the 25th Anniversary of the Urban Design Program, City College of New York, New York City, May 1996
• The Cultures of Cities is focus of "Author Meets Critics" session, Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, N.C., April 1996
• Invited speaker, "Postmodernity and Public Space," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 1995
• Invited speaker, Symposium on "The Question of Economic Value," Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas, October 1995
• Invited speaker, Colloquium Series, Department of Urban Planning, Rutgers University, October 1995
• Invited speaker, Symposium on "The Place of Place," SITE Santa Fe, September 1995
• Landscapes of Power is focus of "Author Meets Critics" session, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., August 1995
• Invited paper on "Cultural Strategies and Urban Identities," Seminar on "Power Struggle in the City: Social and Symbolic Transformation of Urban Space," Nordic Institute for Studies in Urban and Regional Planning, Stockholm, June 1995
• Public lecture, Distinguished Speaker Series, Georgia State University, April 1995
• Invited lecture, "Shopping in the City: Autobiography and Hegemony," Urban Studies Program, York University, Toronto, October 1994
• Invited participation as critic in "Author Meets Critics" session, Section on the Sociology of Culture, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994
• Invited presentation, Faculty Development Seminar, Department of Social Sciences, Pace University, New York City, April 1994
• Invited presentation, Conference on "Social Justice and Fin-de-siecle Urbanism," Department of Geography, University of Oxford, March 1994
• Invited presentation, Conference on "The Humanities and the City," Center for the Humanities, City University Graduate Center, March 1994
• Invited presentation, Seminar on the City, Columbia University, January 1994
• Invited presentation, "Cultural Frames of Practice," Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, December 1993
• Invited discussant on the last 25 years of urban studies, Northeast Political Science Association, Newark, November 1993
• Invited presentation on New York as an arts capital, President's Dinner Forum, CUNY Graduate School, November 1993
• Plenary speaker, Western Humanities Conference, "Remapping Cultural Space: The New Geographies," Stanford University, October 1993
• Invited presentation and roundtable organizer (with Philip Kasinitz), "Culture and Urban Redevelopment," Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Miami, August 1993
• Invited public lecture, Temple University Summer Program for Architectural Studies, July 1993
• Invited lecture, Urban Design Program, Columbia University, June 1993
• Invited public lecture, "The Library in a Contested Landscape," University of Kentucky, March 1993
• Invited participation as critic, "Framing the City," organized by the Urban Forum, Whitney Museum, New York, March 1993
• Invited plenary presentation, "The Mystique of Visual Culture," ACSA East Central Regional Meeting, University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, October 1992
• Invited presentation, "Learning From Disney World," 1992 Critical Theory Series Conference on "Encountering Space: Identity and Place in the Human Sciences," University of California, Davis, April 1992
• Invited presentation, "'Harry, If I Told You, Would You Know?', Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline," Conference on "Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital, and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis," State University of New York, Binghamton, April 1992
• Invited lecture, "Limits of Postmodernism: Culture, Tourism, and Regional Identity in the Berkshires", Department of Geography, Syracuse University, February 1992
• Panelist, "Public Parks/Private Controls," Municipal Art Society and Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, October 1991
• Invited presentation on "The Creative Destruction of Landscape: Mapping Urban and Regional Change," ASA Annual Convention, Cincinnati, August 1991
• Invited paper on "High Culture and 'Wild' Commerce: Redeveloping a Center for the Arts in New York City," Conference on New York as a Post-industrial City, Universitat Bremen, June 1991
• Invited presentation on "Nouvelle Cuisine as a Landscape of Power," ASA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., August 1990

Membership in Professional and Honor Societies:

• American Sociological Association
  • ASA Dissertation Award Selection Committee, 2002-4
    • Chair, 2004
  • Section on Community and Urban Sociology
    • Chair, 1996-98
    • Chair-elect, 1995-96
    • Council member, 1992-2000
    • Website committee member, 1998-
  • ASA Committee on Publications
    • Elected member, 1994-98
  • Section on the Sociology of Culture
    • Committee on Book Award, member, 2004-5
    • Committee on Best Article Award, member, 1992-93
    • Publications Committee, chair, 1991-92
  • Section on Economic Sociology
  • Section on Environment, Technology, and Society
• International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Urban and Regional Research
• Phi Beta Kappa

• Editorial Board, Mobilities, 2004-
• Consultant Editor, Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, 2002-
• Editorial Board, Philosophy & Geography, 2000-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Consumer Culture, 2000-
• Associate Editor, City and Community, Section on Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 1998-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Space and Culture, 1997-
• Editorial Board, "Globalization and Community" book series, University of Minnesota Press, 1996-
• International Editorial Advisory Board, Handbook of Urban Studies (Sage), 1997
• Editorial Advisory Board, "Consumption and Space" book series, UCL Press (London), 1995-
• Editorial Advisory Board, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1993-2006
• Editorial Board, Political Power and Social Theory, 1990-
• Editorial Board, Comparative Urban and Community Research, 1987-
• Editorial Committee, Comparative Politics, 1986-94
• Editorial Associate, Telos, 1981-83
• Senior Editor, Theory and Society, 1980-

• Established unpaid internship for outstanding urban sociology students in Brooklyn Borough President’s Office, 2002-
• Dmitri Chitov, honors project on social capital and community gardens in New York City, 2005-6
• Shanell Budeah, seminar paper on immigrant entrepreneurs in Flatbush, won Charles R. Lawrence Award for best paper in a sociology course at Brooklyn College, 2005
• Amelia Benitez, CUNY Pipeline Honors Program, senior thesis on consumption patterns of teenage girls, 2004-5
• Michelle McBride, research assistant to interview teenagers in East New York, summer 2001
• Liz Alarnick, Eric Achuba, Marcia Antoine, Carmel Victor, seminar paper examining immigrant shopping streets in Brooklyn as transnational spaces, won Charles R. Lawrence Award for best paper in a sociology course at Brooklyn College, 1996

• Miriam Greenberg, “Branding New York City, 1976-2000,” 2005; Miriam is assistant professor of sociology, University of California-Santa Cruz; dissertation under contract to Routledge (New York)
• Jennifer Smith Maguire, “Bodies Fit for Consumption,” 2002; Jen is lecturer in sociology, University of Leicester (UK); dissertation under contract to Routledge (London)
• Alex Vitale, “Enforcing Civility: Homelessness, ‘Quality of Life,’ and the Crisis of Urban Liberalism,” 2001; Alex is assistant professor of sociology, Brooklyn College
• Jennifer Parker Talwar, immigrant workers in fast food industry in New York City, 1996; Jenn is assistant professor of sociology, Penn State-Lehigh Valley; dissertation published as Fast Food, Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business, and the American Dream (Westview, 2002)

Recent Mentoring of Junior Faculty:
Social sciences seminar leader, Faculty Fellowship Publications Program, City University of New York, 2005, 2006

Department Administration:
Deputy Chairperson, Department of Sociology, Brooklyn College, 1984-85

College Administration:
Faculty Associate, Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College, 1985-

• Search committee for department chair (Brooklyn College), 2005-6
• Personnel and Budget Committee (Brooklyn College), 2002-5, 2006-
• Executive Committee (Graduate Center), 1988- 
• Faculty Membership Committee (Graduate Center), 1990-

Brooklyn College / Graduate Center Committees:

• Board, Center for Place, Culture, and Power (GC), 2000-
• Faculty Council Committee to Recommend Recipients of Honorary   Degrees (BC), 2000
• Faculty Council Committee for Faculty Awards for Creative Work (BC), 1998
• Promotions Committee for Professor, Subcommittee for Social Sciences (BC), 1986
• Faculty Council (BC), 1985-86
• Admissions Committee, Phi Beta Kappa (BC), 1983-85, 1999-2000

• Social sciences mentor, Faculty Fellows Publications Program, CUNY Office for Compliance and Diversity, 2005
• Newman Center on Real Estate Consortium, Baruch College, 2004-
• CUNY Cross-Campus Honors College faculty, 2001-2
• Sociology Review Panel, University Committee on Research, 1989-91
• Urban-Focused Research Review Panel, University Committee on Research, 1987-88
• Co-organizer, New York City Seminar, Center for Social Research, 1987-91
• Chair, Sociology Review Panel, University Committee on Research, 1984-85
• Sociology Review Panel, University Committee on Research, 1983-84
• Executive Committee, Center for European Studies, 1980-89