My research is at the border of sociology and history, community studies, social movements and social change, race, class, and gender inequality. Recent publications includes The Failure of Planning: Permitting Sprawl in San Diego Suburbs, 1970-199
...MoreMy research is at the border of sociology and history, community studies, social movements and social change, race, class, and gender inequality. Recent publications includes The Failure of Planning: Permitting Sprawl in San Diego Suburbs, 1970-1999 (Ohio State University Press, 2003), Was Wright Wrong? High Class Jobs and the Professional Eranings Advantage." Social Science Quarterly 86 (2005):645-663, "Political Opportunity and Capitalist Crisis," pp. 161-176 in Maria Kousis and Charles Tilly (eds.), Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005). My current research is focused on Darien, Georgia, a small town where the black majority continued to support the Republican party after Georgia was redeemed by the Democratic party in 1870.
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New Directions in the Humanities
