From The Peopling of New York City
Craig Willse, your ITF
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About Me
| Date of Birth | 12 February 1975 |
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| Birthplace | Cleveland, OH |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Education | New College of Florida |
| Major | Social Sciences/Gender Studies |
I am a graduate student in the Sociology Program at the City University of New York. I have a pretty wide set of academic interests, including political sociology, theories of the state, science and technology studies, critical race theory, and social movements.
My dissertation looks at the organization of housing programs and services in the context of “post-welfare state” U.S. neoliberalism. To conduct my research, I've interviewed program managers, social workers, and clients of housing programs in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. My dissertation tries to understand what the organization and provision of housing and related health services can tell us about the management of social problems in the contemporary United States.
If you're interested, an article based on my dissertation research was published in a special issue of Surveillance and Society on surveillance and inequality. I also try to do non-academic writing to explore my other interests, like this interview with the artist Jonah Groeneboer.
This is my third year as an ITF at the Macaulay Honors College. Prior to this job, I taught as an adjunct at Hunter College. Before started graduate school, I had a number of jobs, including: waiter, barista, administrative assistant, social worker, tenant organizer, and paralegal. These days, other than school related activities, I keep busy riding my bike around the city, playing music in a pop band, and visiting my friends on a farm upstate. Oh, and once a year I make a pilgrimage to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, the hometown of Dolly Parton, to ride the roller coasters at Dollywood.
Ideal Community
Immigration Film Clip
From There to Here
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