TONY ROSHAN SAMARA

Program Director, Land Use & Housing

Urban Habitat

1212 Broadway, Suite 500

Oakland, CA 94612

+1 510 839 9510 x 313

tony@urbanhabitat.org

EDUCATION

2005 PHD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dissertation title: State Security in Transition: The War on Crime in Post-Apartheid

South Africa

1997 MA, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Thesis: Indian Sovereignty and a Nation’s Integrity: An Historical Analysis of Three

Supreme Court Decisions

1995 MA, Liberal Studies, City University of New York

1992 BA, Environmental Studies and Sociology, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY

POSITIONS HELD

2015 – present Program Director of Land Use & Housing, Urban Habitat

2014 – 2015 Program Manager of Land Use & Housing, Urban Habitat

2015 – present Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology, George Mason University

2011 – 2014 Associate Professor of Sociology, George Mason University

2005 – 2011 Assistant Professor of Sociology, George Mason University

2010 – 2014 Associate Faculty, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University

2009 – 2014 Affiliate Faculty, Cultural Studies PHD Program, George Mason University

2009 Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California,

Berkeley, Fall semester

2006 – 2014 Affiliate Faculty, African American Studies, George Mason University

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RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS

Urban sociology Citizenship studies

Sociology of globalization Race, ethnicity and nation

Classical & contemporary social theory Critical criminology and security studies

HONORS & GRANTS

2012 Nominee, Herskovitz Award for Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and Governance in

the Divided City (2011), African Studies Association

2012 Nominee, C. Wright Mills Book Award for Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and

Governance in the Divided City (2011), Society for the Study of Social Problems

2011 Right to the City Alliance/Ford Foundation, Research Study on Civic Engagement

Programs, Activities & Impact, Principle Investigator, $18,000

2011 Faculty Research and Development Award, George Mason University, $4,800

2010 Summer Research Funding, Office of Research and Economic Development, George

Mason University, $4,000

2010 – 2011 Nominee, Teaching Excellence Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, George Mason

University

2009 Faculty Research Grant, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University, $2500

2008 Faculty Research Seed Grant, George Mason University, $6500

2008 Right to the City Alliance, Research Grant, $3200

2007 – 2008 Fenwick Fellow, George Mason University (with John G. Dale), $2000

2003 UCSB Affiliates-Graduate Dissertation Fellowship

2003 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, UCSB

2000 Humanities/Social Science Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Books

Samara, Tony Roshan (Lead Editor), Shenjing He & Guo Chen (eds). 2013. Locating Right to the

City in the Global South. London: Routledge.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2011. Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime & Governance in the Divided City.

University of Minnesota Press.

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Special issues

Samara, Tony Roshan (Lead Editor), Anita Sinha & Marnie Brady (eds.) 2013. Cities: The

International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 35. Special Issue: Public Housing and the

Public Agenda: Locating a Right to the City.

Articles

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2016. “Policing Development: Urban Renewal as Neoliberal Security

Strategy”, Urban Studies, 53 n.11. Virtual Special Issue: The racial state and resistance in Ferguson

and beyond. Kate Driscoll Derickson (ed). Reprint.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2015. “Politics and the Social in World Class Cities: Building a Shanghai

Model,” Urban Studies, Special Issue: Producing and Consuming China's New Urban Space: State,

Market and Society. Shenjing He & George C.S. Lin (eds). doi: 10.1177/0042098015582308

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2015. “The Age of the Renter,” Metropolitics.

http://www.metropolitiques.eu/The-Age-of-the-Renter.html

Samara, Tony Roshan (Lead Author), Anita Sinha & Marnie Brady. 2013. “Putting the ‘Public’ Back

in Affordable Housing: Place and Politics in the Era of Poverty Deconcentration,” Cities: The

International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 35, pp.319-326.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2011. “Transnational Urban Governance and the Mega-Event: A Comparative

Study of Cape Town, New Delhi and Shanghai”, China Urban Studies, 3, pp.289-303.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2010. “Policing Development: Urban Renewal as Neoliberal Security

Strategy”, Urban Studies, 47 n.1, pp.197-214.

Samara, Tony Roshan, 2010. “Order and Security in the City: Producing race and policing neoliberal

spaces”, Ethnic & Racial Studies, 33 n.4, pp.637-55.

Dale, John G. & Tony Roshan Samara. 2008. “Legal Pluralism within a Transnational Network of

Governance: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition”, Law, Social Justice and Global Development, 2.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/lgd/2008_2/daleandsamara

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2007. “Development, Social Justice and Global Governance: Challenges to

Implementing Restorative and Criminal Justice Reform in South Africa”, Acta Juridica, pp.113-133.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2005. “Youth, Crime, & Urban Renewal in the Western Cape”, Journal of

Southern African Studies, 31 n.1 (March), pp.209-227.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2003. “State Security in Transition: The War on Crime in Post-Apartheid

South Africa”, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, & Culture. 9 n.2.

Samara, Tony. 2000. “Prisons, Profits & Profiteers: Capital Goes to Prison”, Workplace 3.2: A

Journal of Academic Labor (December). http://louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue6/samara.html

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Book Chapters

Leavitt, Jacqueline, Tony Roshan Samara & Marnie Brady. 2014. “Right to the City as Social

Movement and Theory,” in Chester Hartmann (ed). America’s Growing Inequality, Lexington Books.

Reprint.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2013. “Citizenship and the urban polity: right to the city and the meanings of

home,” in Edward Murphy and Najib Hourani (eds). Proprietary Matters: The Housing Question in

High Modernist and Neoliberal Urbanism, Ashgate Publishing.

Samara, Tony Roshan, 2013. “Order and Security in the City: Producing race and policing neoliberal

spaces”, in Angela P. Harris (ed.) Race and Equality Law, Ashgate Publishing (reprint).

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2012. “Citizens in Search of a City: Towards a new infrastructure of political

belonging,” in Michael Peter Smith & Michael McQuarrie (eds). Remaking Urban Citizenship:

Organizations, Institutions, and the Right to the City, Transaction Publishers, pp. 39-56.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2011. “Building coliseums, living in shacks: construction workers in the

shadow of the world class city,” in Eddie Cottle (ed.) South Africa’s World Cup: A Legacy for

Whom?, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2010. “Order and Security in the City: Producing Race and Policing

Neoliberal Spaces in South Africa,” in New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives

on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics, Paul Amar (ed.) Routledge: New York.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2010. “Playing Cape Town: The politics of stadium development for the 2010

World Cup” in Urban Spaces: Planning and Struggling for Land and Community, James Jennings &

Julia Jordan-Zachery (eds.), Lexington Books.

Dale, John G. & Tony Roshan Samara. 2009. “Legal Pluralism within a Transnational Network of

Governance: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition” in Terrorist Detention and Rendition: State

Practices, Asifa Begum (ed.) Amicus Press: Hyderabad, India.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2008. “Marginalized Youth & Urban Revitalization: Street kids and moral

panics in Cape Town”, in Moral Panics over Contemporary Children & Youth, C. Krinsky (ed.)

Ashgate Publishing, pp. 187-202.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2008. “Development, Social Justice and Global Governance: Challenges to

Implementing Restorative and Criminal Justice Reform in South Africa”, in Restorative Justice:

Politics, Policies and Prospects, E. van der Spuy, S. Parmentier, A. Dissel (eds.), Cape Town, Juta

Law.

Book reviews and encyclopedia articles

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2013. Review of Victor M. Rios, Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and

Latino Boys, New York University Press, 2011, Ethnic & Racial Studies.

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Samara, Tony Roshan. 2013. Review of Martin J. Murray, City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of

Johannesburg, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, Canadian Journal of African Studies,

47(1), 154-6.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2013. Review of Martin J. Murray, City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of

Johannesburg, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, Urban Studies, 50(9), 1906-08

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2010. Review: Steffen Jensen, Gangs, Politics & Dignity in Cape Town,

James Currey, Oxford; The University of Chicago, Chicago; Wits University Press, Johannesburg,

2008, Critique of Anthropology, 30(2), pp.237-8.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2007. “South African Gangs”, in Louis Kontos & David C. Brotherton (eds.),

Encyclopedia of Gangs, Westview, CT, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2005/6. Review: George Lawson, Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech

Republic, South Africa & Chile, Brookfield, Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005, Political Science

Quarterly, (Winter).

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Samara, Tony. 2017. “Resegregation and the Rise of Urban Poverty,” KCET: City Rising, October 11.

https://www.kcet.org/shows/city-rising/resegregation-and-the-rise-of-suburban-poverty

Samara, Tony. 2017. “Rise of the Renter Nation,” KCET: City Rising, September 13.

https://www.linktv.org/shows/city-rising/rise-of-the-renter-nation-solutions-to-the-housing-

affordability-crisis

Samara, Tony. 2017. “The New Tenants’ Movement for Housing Justice,” KCET: City Rising,

September 13. https://www.linktv.org/shows/city-rising/the-new-tenant-movement-for-housing-

justice

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2017 “Poor Residents of Color Are Pushed To The Outskirts,” Marguerite

Casey Foundation.

http://caseygrants.org/poor-residents-of-color-are-pushed-to-the-outskirts/

Blackwell, Fred and Samara, Tony Roshan. 2016 “Bay Area’s low-income areas feel the pinch,” East

Bay Times, December 13.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2016 “Don’t blame SF’s “left-leaning, anti-growth, NIMBY homeowners” for

the city’s housing crisis,” Salon, January 24.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2015 “Building a Movement for Jobs and Housing Justice,” Labor, 77(10), p.3

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2014 “Renters are not the problem,” Rooflines, December 16.

http://www.rooflines.org/3968/renters_are_not_the_problem/

Samara, Tony. 2014 “Housing Justice and the Renter Class,” Just Causes, Fall, p.4

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Samara, Tony Roshan. 2014. “From Bullets to Boomtown: The making of contemporary

Mogadishu,” New Left Project. http://bit.ly/1lKHc1e

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2014. “Housing Demolition and the Right to Place,” polis,

http://www.thepolisblog.org/2014/01/housing-demolition-and-right-to-place.html

Samara, Tony Roshan & Elleka Watts. 2013. “Will the 2020 Olympics Really Help Tokyo?” The

Diplomat, September 29. http://thediplomat.com/2013/09/29/will-the-2020-olympics-really-help-

tokyo/

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2012. “State Violence in the Protest Capital of the World,” Critical

Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa. http://www.cihablog.com/state-violence-in-the-

protest-capital-of-the-world/

Leavitt, Jacqueline, Tony Roshan Samara & Marnie Brady. 2009. “The Right to the City Alliance:

Time to Democratize Urban Governance”, Progressive Planning, n.181, Fall.

Leavitt, Jacqueline, Tony Roshan Samara & Marnie Brady. 2009. “Right to the City as Social

Movement and Theory”, Poverty & Race, September/October, 18(5).

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2009. “Construction Workers and Mega-event ‘Development’ ”, Working

Paper, Multi-sectoral Conference on Decent Work in World Cup 2010, August 26-27, Johannesburg,

South Africa. http://bit.ly/1eXaLbs

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2009. “Paving the Way for Neoliberal Development: Urban Transformation

and the Mega-Event”, Global Studies Review, 5(1), Spring.

http://cgs.gmu.edu/publications/oldgsr/5.1.pdf

Jackson, Pam, Renée Rossouw and Tony R. Samara, 2008. “Responses to frequently asked questions

and criticisms”, in Pam Jackson & Renée Rossouw, Ons Plek: The Story of the Ons Plek Project

Girls’ Shelter in Cape Town, Ons Plek Projects, Cape Town.

Samara, Tony Roshan, 2008. “Right to the City”, Buyers and Renters Arlington Voice, Arlington,

VA, Fall. www.bravotenants.org

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2008. “Torture & the Waterboarding Debate & Switch”, Richmond Times

Dispatch, Sunday Commentary, 6 April.

Samara, Tony Roshan with Grace Chang. 2007. “Right to the City in Miami: The Struggle in

Overtown”, Colorlines: The national news magazine on race and politics, July/August.

--Reprinted. 2008. As “Gentrifying Downtown Miami”, Race, Poverty & the Environment,

15(1).

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2007. “The World Cup and the Globalization of Security and Development in

Cape Town”, Global Studies Review, Center for Global Studies, 3(2), Summer.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2007. Z Magazine, “Right to the City”, 20(6), June.

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REPORTS & POLICY PAPERS

Echeverria, F., Gordon, L., Majid, M., Rupani, S. & Samara, T.R. 2018. Rooted in Home: Community

Based Alternatives to the Bay Area Housing Crisis, Urban Habitat and East Bay Community Law

Center, Oakland, CA.

Samara, Tony Roshan and Amy Martin. 2016. Race, Inequality, and the Resegregation of the Bay

Area, Urban Habitat, Oakland, CA.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2016. A Research Agenda for Investment without Displacement, Funders’

Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.

Samara, Tony Roshan. 2014. The Rise of the Renter Nation: Solutions to the Affordable Housing

Crisis, Right to the City Alliance, New York, NY.

Tenants and Workers United, Alexandria United Teens, Advancement Project, & Samara, Tony R.

2007. Obstacles to Opportunity: Alexandria, Virginia Students Speak Out, (September). Available at

www.advancementproject.org/publications/opportunity-to-learn.php

Samara, Tony Roshan. Right to the City: a new national alliance, Report on the Proceedings of the

Right to the City Conference, 11-14 January, 2007, Los Angeles, CA.

Samara, Tony. 2002. Bringing Children’s Rights and Protection to the Centre of the Service Level

Agreements in the Child Justice System, United Nations Child Justice Project, Pretoria, South Africa.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED TALKS

“Localizing justice: policy and power in the California rent control fights,” International Public

Policy Association, Concordia University, Montreal, June 25-28, 2019

“Confronting Resegregation: The tenant movement for housing justice,” Contesting Displacement:

Dispossession/Extraction/Gentrification, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 13, 2018.

“Protecting Renters: Discussions of rent control, stabilization and evictions,” Series on Housing,

Equity and Community, UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy, Los Angeles, February 26, 2018.

“Race, Inequality, and the Resegregation of the Bay Area,” Constructing Solidarities Symposium,

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign¸Sept. 9-10, 2017.

“Reflections on the Right to the City Alliance at Ten Years,” Constructing Solidarities Symposium,

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign¸Sept. 9-10, 2017.

Health, Housing, and the Displacement Crisis: Funding Power Building and Systems Change.

Grantmakers in Health Annual Conference, Boston, MA, June 2103, 2017.

“Building regional resistance from the ground up: The San Francisco Bay Area tenants’ rights

movement,” Evictions, foreclosures, and displacements in contemporary cities – new and old faces of

dispossession, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, LABCidade, May 26-7, 2017.

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“Resegregation in the Bay Area from a Regional Perspective,” The Shifting Politics of US Suburbs,

George Mason University, 23-4 June, 2016.

Featured Speaker, “Innovations in Segregation: Displacement and Unequal Development in Silicon

Valley”, 9th Annual LEAD Global Issues Conference, De Anza College, 3 March, 2016.

“Housing Justice,” Stanford Engaged Scholarship Conference, Stanford University, 5 November,

2015.

“Current Manifestations of Housing Injustice and the Impact of Technology,” What’s the “G”?:

Gentrification and the Myth of Fair Housing, UC Hastings School of Law, 3 February, 2015.

“Between the Spectacle and the Street: Popular Visions and the Refashioning of City Spaces in

Shanghai”, Urban Affairs Association, San Francisco, CA, April 3-6, 2013.

Invited Speaker, “Urbanization and Social Issues in Africa”, Sub-Saharan Intensive Area Studies

Seminar, Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State, March 5, 2013.

Invited Public Lecture, “In the Shadow of the World Class City: Urban governance and fractured

landscapes in Shanghai and New Delhi”, Center for the Pacific Rim, University of San Francisco,

January 31, 2013.

Invited Speaker, “Building Inclusive Cities: Prioritizing Youth Development and Democratic

Urbanism”, Open Society Foundations Youth Initiative Symposium on Youth and Sports,

Goldsmiths University, London, UK, 20-21 April, 2012.

“Emerging Forms of Urban Democracy in the Neoliberal City”, XIII April International Academic

Conference on Economic and Social Development, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia,

3-5 April 2012.

Invited Speaker, “Uneven Citizenship: Trans-urbanism, Space and the City”, Seminar Series, Faculty

of Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, April 2nd, 2012.

“Uneven Citizenship: Transnationalism, Space and the City”, American Association of

Geographers, New York, New York, 24-26 February, 2012.

Invited Speaker, “Cape Town After Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City,” Year of

Africa, Global Affairs Program, George Mason University, 14, February, 2012.

“Citizenship and the City: Creating a New Infrastructure of Political Belonging”, Infrastructures of

Home and City: The Problem of Housing in Modern Urban Society, Global Urban Studies

Program, Michigan State University, October 15-16, 2010.

“The Right to the City Movement in U.S. Cities: Conceptions of rights, citizenship, and political

subjects in the neoliberal city”, National Association for Ethnic Studies, Washington DC, April

2010.

“Transnational Urban Governance and the Mega-event: A comparative study of peripheralization is

Shanghai, New Delhi and Cape Town”, Regular Session, Transnational Urban Governance and Policy

Studies, American Association of Geographers, Washington DC, 22-24 April, 2010.

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“The Right to the City Movement in U.S. Cities: Conceptions of rights, citizenship, and political

subjects in the neoliberal city”, Seminar Series, Institute for the Study of Social Change, University

of California, Berkeley, 1 December, 2009.

“Transnational Urban Governance and the Mega-event: A comparative study of Cape Town, New

Delhi and Shanghai”, International Conference on Globalization, Innovation, and Urban

Regional Development, Shanghai, China, 19-20 June, 2009.

“Legal Pluralism within a Transnational Network of Governance: The Extraordinary Case of

Rendition”, The 2009 Fenwick Fellow Lecture, 6 April, George Mason University (with John G.

Dale).

“Right to the City: New Directions in Urban Social Movements”, American Association of

Geographers, Las Vegas, 22-28 March, 2009.

“Reconstructing Rights and Citizenship: The Struggle for Urban Democracy in the Neoliberal City”,

Urban Transformations: Public, Private Practices of Social Change, American University,

Washington DC, 21 March 2009.

“How to Educate Citizens in the Sociology Classroom”, Regular Session, Fostering Active

Citizenship through Teaching Sociology, Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, MD, 19-22, 2009.

Invited Speaker, “Policy considerations in the urban development debate”, The University and Urban

Renewal, The Kresge Foundation and the South African Institute for Advancement, 3rd Annual

Vice Chancellor’s Leadership Retreat, Cape Town, South Africa, October 22-24, 2008.

“Beyond the Rogue State Executive: Mapping the Transnational Legal Imaginary of Extraordinary

Rendition”, First International Sociological Association World Forum of Sociology, Barcelona,

Spain, Research Committee on Law, September 5-8, 2008 (with John Dale).

“The Rogue State Executive’s Rope-a-Dope Strategy: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition”,

American Sociological Association, Boston, Human Rights section inaugural panel, August 1-4,

2008 (with John Dale).

Presidential Session: Author Meets Critics: Luis A. Fernandez. 2008. Policing Dissent: Social

Control and the Anti-Globalization Movement, Rutgers University Press. Pacific Sociological

Association, Portland, OR, April 10-13, 2008.

“Extraordinary Rendition and the New Security Networks of Global Governance”, Regular Session,

Globalization and Social Control, Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR, April 10-13, 2008.

“States, Human Rights, and Global Security after 911”, American Sociological Association, New

York, NY, Special Session, August, 2007 (with John G. Dale).

“Fear in the City: Global Governance and the Integration of Cape Town into the Post Cold War

World System”, African Studies Association, San Francisco, Regular Session, Security, Violence,

and Uneven Development in Southern Africa, November 2006.

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“Development, Social Justice & Global Governance: Challenges to Implementing Restorative and

Criminal Justice Reform in South Africa”, Invited talk, The Politics of Restorative Justice in Post-

Conflict South Africa and Beyond. Cape Town, South Africa, 21-23, September, 2006.

“Security and Development in the Global South After the Cold War”, American Sociological

Association, Montreal, Canada, Regular Session on the Global South, August 2006.

“Urban Disorganization in Local and Global Context: The Case of Crime and Policing in Cape Town,

South Africa”, International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Durban,

South Africa, July 2006.

“Policing Development: Crime, Security & Urban Renewal in Cape Town”, Regular Session, Crime

and Punishment, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, MA, February 2006.

“Enemies of the State?: Youth, Crime and Underdevelopment in the Western Cape”, American

Sociological Association, Community and Urban Sociology Roundtable Session. San Francisco, CA,

August 2004.

“State Security in Transition: The War on Crime in Post-Apartheid South Africa” presented in the

session, ‘The United States as Hyperpower: Remaking the World in Its Own Image’, Pacific

Sociological Association, Pasadena, CA, April 2003.

“Youth & the War on Crime in South Africa”, Invited talk, Institute of Criminology, University of Cape

Town, April 2002.

“Internationalist Perspectives on the Working Class: The Labour Aristocracy Thesis Revisited”, presented

in the session, ‘Labor and Working Class Organizing at Century's End’, The Working Class at

Century’s End: Retrospect and Prospect, University of California at Irvine, May 2000.

“Prisons, Profits & Profiteers: Capital Goes to Prison”, presented in the session ‘Criminology’, Pacific

Sociological Association, Portland, OR, April 1999.

“Snake Oil or Salvation?: Repositioning Sociological Knowledge” presented in the session ‘Taboo Topics

in Sociology’, Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA April 1998 (with Amory Starr).

“Indian Sovereignty and a Nation’s Integrity: An Historical Analysis of Three Supreme Court Decisions”,

presented in the session, ‘Legal Contest and the Creation of Subject Peoples in the 19th Century U.S.’,

Social Science History Association, New Orleans LA, October 1996.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2005 – 2014 George Mason University

SOCI 120: Introduction to Global Affairs

SOCI 308: Race, Ethnicity & Nation

SOCI 332: Global Cities

SOCI 395: Asian American Studies

SOCI 413: Crime & Security in the Era of Globalization

SOCI 623: Race & Ethnicity in Global Perspective

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SOCI 853: Cities in Global Society

Graduate Level Independent Studies:

Theories of Race & Nationalism

Race, Ethnicity & Identity

Undergraduate Level Independent Studies:

Post-Conflict Truth Commissions

International Political Economy

2004 – 2005 Faculty, De Anza Community College, Cupertino, California

Introduction to Sociology

1997 – 2001 Instructor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Special Topics in Social Theory: Theorizing the Global System

Introduction to Political Economy

Political Economy of Food

Community Sociology

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Reviewer Antipode, Cities, City & Community, City & Society, Environment &

Planning A, Ethnic & Racial Studies, Geoforum, Security Dialogue, Urban

Studies.

2018 – present Advisory Committee, Housing Justice in Unequal Cities. Institute on

Inequality and Democracy, UCLA Luskin School. Funded by the National

Science Foundation. NSF BCS #1758774.

2011 – 2013 Chair, Global Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems.

2011 – 2014 Editorial Board, Global Studies Review.

2009 – 2013 Co-chair, Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Society for the Study

of Social Problems, Global Division.

2008 – 2010 Co-chair, Undergraduate Student Paper Award Committee, Society for the

Study of Social Problems, Global Division.

2007 – 2013 Executive Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Global

Division.

2010 Chair, “Socio-spatial Transformations: Urban redevelopment/Gentrification”,

Sponsored by: China Geography Specialty Group and Urban Geography

Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers, Washington DC,

April 2010.

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Chair, “Right to the City: Washington DC”, Sponsored by the People’s

Geography Project, American Association of Geographers, Washington

DC, April 2010.

2010 Co-organizer, “Right to the City: transnational urban governance and socio-

spatial transformations”, Sponsored by: China Geography Specialty Group

and Urban Geography Specialty Group, American Association of

Geographers, Washington DC, April 2010.

Aug. 2009 Co-organizer and Discussant, Human Rights: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity

and Immigration, Regular Session, Society for the Study of Social

Problems, San Francisco, CA.

Aug. 2007 Special Session Co-Organizer (with John Dale), “States, Human Rights, and

Global Security after 9-11”, American Sociological Association, New York,

NY.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Spring 2014 Chair, Search Committee, Term Appointment, Department of Sociology and

Anthropology.

Spring 2013 Chair, Search Committee, Term Appointment, Department of Sociology and

Anthropology.

2012 – 2014 Chair, Cities and Globalization Working Group, George Mason University.

Spring 2012 Chair, Search Committee, Term Appointment, Department of Sociology and

Anthropology.

2011 – 2014 Sociology Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology

and Anthropology.

2010 – 2014 Sociology Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology and

Anthropology.

2009 – 2014 Steering Committee, Center for Global Studies, George Mason University.

2008 – 2014 Co-coordinator, Globalization emphasis, PhD program in Sociology,

Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

2006 – 2014 Faculty Advisor, Asian Pacific American Coalition.

2007 – 2010 Faculty Advisor, Sikh Student Association.

2006 – 2008 Liaison Member, Asian Pacific American Faculty & Staff Association.

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PUBLIC SERVICE

2012 – present National Steering Committee, Right to the City Alliance.

2007 –2012 Research consultant, Right to the City Alliance.

2007 – 2011 Research consultant, Tenants and Workers United, Alexandria, VA.

2007 – 2010 Executive Committee, Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, Co-

coordinator of Political Action.

March 2002 Project Evaluator, Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA).

Evaluation of Bush Radio, a community radio station in Cape Town, and the

use of hip-hop as an educational tool for Aids awareness work among city

youth.

1996 – 2000 Organizing Committee, Santa Barbara Community Currency.