FACULTY PROFILE

FACULTY PROFILE

Gregory Smithsimon
Assistant Professor

Address
422B, Lehman Hall, Barnard College
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
E-mail: gsmithsimon@barnard.edu
212-854-9253

Office hours:
By appointment.

Courses
URBS V 3410x Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in Urban America
URBS V 3994x-3995y Senior Seminar: New York Field Research
URBS V 3420y Introduction to Urban Sociology
URBS V 3810y Production, Consumption, and Control of Public Space

Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, Department of Sociology, 2004
M.Phil., Columbia University, Department of Sociology, 2000
M.A., Columbia University, Department of Sociology, 1999
B.A., Brown University, Urban Studies and Visual Arts, 1994

Recent Teaching Experience
Fall 2003, Summers 2002/03/04: Instructor of Sociology, Columbia University
Spring 2004: Teaching Fellow, Columbia University
Fall 2001 & Spring 2002: Adjunct Professor of Sociology, Temple University
Summer 2001: Instructor of Sociology, Columbia University

Publications
2004: With Philip Kasinitz and Binh Pok, "Disaster at the Doorstep: Battery Park City and Tribeca Respond to the Events of 9-11" in Wounded City: The Social Effects of the World Trade Center Attack on New York City, ed. Nancy Foner. (Sage: Forthcoming April 2005).

2001: "Transnational Labor Organizing: Opportunities and Obstacles for Unions Challenging Multinational Corporations," Socialist Review 27, p. 65-93.

Public Sociology Publications
2004: "Affordable Housing Gets Sacked: Battery Park City's Funds Intercepted by the City's Big West Side Project," Village Voice, July 21-27, 2004, p. 22-24.

2002: "Before What's Gone Was There," (photo essay) Radical Society, Spring 2002.

2001: "The Business of Revolution is Business," In These Times, April 2, 2001, p. 30.

2000: "Off-Key: Presidential Dance Parties" Dissent, 47, no. 2 (Spring 2000), p. 128.

Presentations
2004: "Battery Park City and the Battle Over West Street: How Space Affects Social Relations," presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco , California. August.

2004: "Bonus Plazas," presented at History Matters: Spaces of Violence, Speces of Memory. New School University. April.

2003: "Oasis to Epicenter: Battery Park City's Personal Effects and Community Responses to the Destruction of the World Trade Center" presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta. Georgia. August.

2002: "New York's Plazas, Race, and the Resegregation of Public Space, 1961-1975" presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois. August.

2001: "The Technologies of Public Space and Alternatives to Privatized New York" presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, California. August.