The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis

About the Contributors

About the Contributors LARRY BENNETT has taught in the Political Science Department at DePaul University since 1977. He is the author, most recently, of Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield (Garland, 1997) and (with Costas Spirou) It’sHardlySportin’:Stadiums , Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003). He is coeditor (with Janet Smith and Patricia Wright) of a volume on public-housing redevelopment in Chicago, Where Are Poor People to Live? published in 2006 by M.E. Sharpe. MICHAEL I. J. BENNETT is executive director of the Egan Urban Center at DePaul University, where he is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology. His teaching and writing are in the areas of urban policy, and urban and rural community economic development, with an emphasis on low-income and African American communities. He has degrees from Kent State University (B.A. 1968), and The University of Chicago (M.A. 1972 and Ph.D. 1988). LOUISE CAINKAR is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University . Professor Cainkar is completing a study of the impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on the Arab– Muslim community in metropolitan Chicago, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. FASSIL DEMISSIE is Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies at DePaul University. He is editing a book on Colonial Architecture and Urbanism: Intertwined and Contested History, University of South Africa Press (forthcoming 2007). His work has appeared previously in Housing Studies, Social Identities, The International Journal of African Historical Research, American Anthropologist, and African Development. He is also the Series Editor for New Directions in the Study of African Cities and Urban Form, University of South Africa Press. MAY PATRICE ERDMANS is a sociologist who teaches at Central Connecticut State University. Professor Erdmans is the author of Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976– 1990 (1998). KENNETH FIDEL earned his Ph.D. from Washington University and is Associate Professor of Sociology at DePaul University. An urban sociologist , Professor Fidel specializes in community research. ROBERTA GARNER (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at DePaul University. Her publications include Contemporary Movements and Ideologies (McGraw-Hill, 1996), Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation (Broadview, 2004), and The Joy of Stats (Broadview, 2005). KILJOONG KIM received his B.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and M.A. in Sociology from DePaul University . Currently, he is Research Director at the Egan Urban Center and Lecturer in Sociology 342 About the Contributors at DePaul University. He is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. JOHN P. KOVAL is Associate Professor of Sociology , DePaul University and a Fellow at DePaul ’s Egan Urban Center. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame. His primary interests are in work and society, immigrant labor forces, and economic inequality. YVONNE LAU Ph.D. in Sociology, Northwestern University, is an administrator in the Office of Academic Affairs and adjunct instructor in the Sociology Department at DePaul University. Ms. Lau was previously Director of Asian and Asian American Studies at Loyola University in Chicago. PAULINE LIPMAN Associate Professor of Education at DePaul University, earned her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Professor Lipman is author of High Stakes Education: Inequality , Globalization, and Urban School Reform (2004). DAVID MOBERG is a Chicago-based journalist who covers labor and urban policy issues. He is a senior editor at In These Times. ROB PARAL is Research Fellow with the American Immigration Law Foundation in Washington, D.C. and the Institute for Metropolitan Affairs at Roosevelt University in Chicago. Mr. Paral has written widely on immigration and public policy issues. AURIE PINNECK a Chicago-based attorney, is former President and CEO of the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities , a civil rights and open-housing advocacy group. DAVID PLEBANSKI a former police officer, teaches at Calumet College of St. Joseph in Whiting , Indiana. Professor Plebanski earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Loyola University of Chicago. PADMA RANGASWAMY an independent scholar, is author of Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis (2000). RICHARD SCHAEFER is Professor and former Chair of the Sociology Department at DePaul University. A specialist in race and ethnicity, he is the author of numerous textbooks on general sociology and race–ethnic relations. JOSEPH P. SCHWIETERMAN of DePaul University ’s Management of Public Services Program has published extensively on the...