New York City Photo Archives

Jerome Krase, Murray Koppelman Professor, and Professor Emeritus, at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, received a BA in Sociology at Indiana University (1967) and his Ph.D. at New York University (1973). He continues to work as an activist-scholar and serves as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding inter-group relations and other urban community issues. His interests have expanded into visual studies of neighborhood communities. He has researched, written, photographed, and lectured globally on urban life and culture, migration, and gentrification. Single and co-Published books include Self and Community in the City (1982), Ethnicity and Machine Politics (1992), Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005), Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. (2006), Seeing Cities Change (2012), Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn (2016). He is an active member of several national and international professional organizations including the International, European, and American Sociological Associations and sevrves on several professional journal editorial boards.