City, Culture, and Community

Contact Information

Frederick Buttell
Doctoral Program Director
Email: buttell@tulane.edu
Phone: (504)862-3486

Katherine R. Smith
Program Secretary
Email: krshiv@tulane.edu
Phone: (504)862-3489

Program Steering Committee:
Frederick Buttell (Social Work)
Michele Adams (Sociology)
Joel A. Devine (Urban Studies)
Charles R. Figley (Social Work)
Diane Grams (Sociology)
Carol M. Reese (Urban Studies)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

FACULTY

GRADUATE STUDENTS

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

City, Culture, and Community Faculty
(Alphabetical Order)

Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Applied Statistics, Political Sociology, Social Control, Complex Organizations, Urban Policing, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Name, Affiliation, & Contact Information	Areas of Specialization
Katie Acosta Assistant Professor, Sociology Gender and Sexuality Studies Latin American Studies (504)862-3002 kacosta1@tulane.edu	Latina/o sexuality, Gender, Latin America, Immigration and race and ethnicity
Michele Adams Associate Professor, Sociology Gender and Sexuality Studies (504)862-3015 madams2@tulane.edu	Sociology of marriage and family, Sociology of gender, Sociology of culture, Social theory, and Social psychology
Richard D. Ager Associate Professor, School of Social Work (504)862-3470 ager@tulane.edu	Addictions, Clinical practice, Community practice and facilitating the adoption of evidence-based practices in the community
Stephanie Arnett Assistant Professor, Sociology (504)862-3009 sarnett@tulane.edu	Education, Race and Ethnicity, Stratification
Carl L. Bankston Professor, Sociology Asian Studies (504)862-3024 cbankst@tulane.edu	International migration and Sociology of education.
April Brayfield Associate Professor, Sociology Gender and Sexuality Studies Social Policy & Practice (504)862-3001 aprilb@tulane.edu	Gender, Work-family nexus, Sociology of childhood, Cross-national surveys
Fred Buttell Professor, School of Social Work Social Policy & Practice Urban Studies Director, Elizabeth Wisner Center for Research on Children & Families (504)865-3486 buttell@tulane.edu	Intimate partner violence, especially from the perspective of community-based, offender rehabilitation
Richard Campanella Associate Director, Center for Bioenvironmental Research Research Professor, School of Science & Engineering (504)862-8453 rcampane@tulane.edu	Urban geography, History and demography of New Orleans
Xiaojin Chen Assistant Professor, Sociology (504)862-3008 xchen1@tulane.edu	Life course criminology, Victimization, Mental disorder, and Advanced statistical analysis
Joel A. Devine Professor, Sociology Urban Studies Director, Urban Studies (504)862-3003 devine@tulane.edu	Urban sociology, Political economy, Poverty, and Film studies
Joel N. Dinerstein Associate Professor, English African & African Diaspora Studies Director, American Studies (504)862-8168 jdinerst@tulane.edu	Twentieth-century American literature, African-American literature and expressive culture, Technology studies, and Popular culture (music and film).
Charles R. Figley Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD Chair, Professor, Social Work Director, Traumatology Institute (504)862-3473 figley@tulane.edu	Psychology, Family studies, and Traumatology, Disaster Mental Health
Keith Finlay Assistant Professor, Economics Social Policy & Practice (504)862-8345 kfinlay@tulane.edu	Labor economics, Applied econometrics, Urban economics, and Public policy
Terrence Fitzmorris Adjunct Professor, History Associate Dean, School of Continuing Studies (504) 865-5555 tfitzmo@tulane.edu	Modern Louisiana history (1840s-Civil Rights Era), New Orleans history, Irish and Irish American life, and Louisiana during Huey Long's regime
Guadalupe Garcia Assistant Professor, History Latin American Studies (504) 862-8539 ggarcia4@tulane.edu	Late-colonial and early-modern Latin American history, with a particular focus on urban history, the Caribbean and Cuba
So`Nia L. Gilkey Assistant Professor, School of Social Work (504) 862-3495 sgilkey@tulane.edu	Psychosocial wellbeing of children and families experiencing complex trauma, long-term displacement and homelessness
Kevin Fox Gotham Professor, Sociology Social Policy & Practice Urban Studies Associate Dean, School of Liberal Arts Director, Social Policy and Practice (504)862-3004 kgotham@tulane.edu	Urban sociology, Comparative-historical sociology, Social theory, and Sociology of culture, race and ethnicity
Diane Grams Assistant Professor, Sociology (504)862-3005 dgrams@tulane.edu	Sociology of culture, Sociology of organizations, Production networks, Nonprofit organizations, and Visual sociology and qualitative methods
Oliver Houck Professor, School of Law Latin American Studies (504)865-5946 ohouck@tulane.edu	Environmental law
Yuki Kato Assistant Professor, Sociology Social Policy & Practice Urban Studies (504)862-3010 ykato@tulane.edu	Urban/Suburban Sociology, Social Stratification, Sociology of Adolescence and Youths, Sociology of Culture, Social Psychology
Carl Kendall Professor, Community Health Sciences (504)988-5347 carl.kendall@gmail.com	Behavioral, social and cultural components of disease, Medical Anthropology, HIV prvention and treatment
Sally J. Kenney Newcomb College Endowed Chair, Professor of Political Science Executive Director, Newcomb College Institute (504)865-5422 skenney@tulane.edu	Women and Politics, Feminist Organizations, and Feminist Social Movements
Celeste J. Lay Assistant Professor, Political Science (504)862-8309 jlay@tulane.edu	American political behavior, with emphases on political socialization, rural and urban politics, voting behavior, and public policy
Madeline Lee Assistant Professor School of Social Work (504)862-3480 mlee17@tulane.edu	Improving services for vulnerable children and families involved in the intersection of the mental health, child welfare, and special education systems.
Ana M. Lopez Associate Professor, Communication Latin American Studies Urban Studies Associate Provost, Office of Academic Affairs (504)865-5261 lopez@tulane.edu	Latin American film, media, television, and popular culture
Aubrey Spriggs Madkour Assistant Professor, Communithy Health Sciences (504)988-1127 aspriggs@tulane.edu	Adolescent health and development, Partner violence, Social and contextual determinants of health outcomes, Social theory, Sexual and reproductive health, and Demography and population health
John McLachlan Weatherhead Distinguished Professor, Environmental Studies Director, Center for Bioenvironmental Research (504)988-6910 jmclach@tulane.edu	Environment, Human health, and Behavior
Vicki A. Mayer Associate Professor, Commnunication (504)862-3035 vmayer@tulane.edu	Media audiences, production studies, communication labor, citizenship and culture, Latin American and Latino media, alternative and community media
Douglas Meffert Deputy Director for Policy, Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research Eugenie Schwartz Professor, River and Coastal Studies (504)988-4618 dmeffert@tulane.edu	Coastal restoration policy, Urban, delta and societal mitigation and adaptation to climate change and disaster, Renewable energy
Jade Miller Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Department of Communication Newcomb Hall 419 jmille7@tulane.edu	Political economy of creative production and cultural industry development
Laura Murphy Clinical Associate Professor, International Health and Development Latin American Studies (504)988-2681 lmurphy2@tulane.edu	Population, Environment, Technology, and Development issues
David G. Ortiz Assistant Professor, Sociology Latin American Studies (504)862-3019 dortiz@tulane.edu	Social movements, Political sociology, Latin America, Quantitative research methods, and Race and ethnicity
Marline Otte Associate Professor, History (504) 862-8621 motte@tulane.edu	Modern European history focusing on Germany and cultural history
Marc D. Perry Assistant Professor, Anthropology African & African Diaspora Studies Latin American Studies (504)862-3550 mdp@illinois.edu	Cultural politics of the African Diaspora, Black transnationalisms, Racial identity formation, Race and blackness in Latin America, and Black expressive culture
Lawrence N. Powell Professor, History Urban Studies (504) 862-8622 powell@tulane.edu	Civil War and Reconstruction; Southern history; Louisiana history and politics; and the Holocaust
Bruce B. Raeburn Adjunct Professor, History Curator, William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive and Director of Special Collections (504) 865-5685 raeburn@tulane.edu	History of jazz
Patrick Rafail Assistant Professor, Sociology (504) 862-3001 prafail @tulane.edu
J. Emmanuel Raymundo Assistant Professor, Communication (504)862-3040 raymundo@tulane.edu	Cultural, literary and political representations of the city and its varied populations
Carol McMichael Reese Associate Professor, Architecture Latin American Studies Urban Studies (504)865-5389 creese1@tulane.edu	Architectural history, theory, and criticism and Urban history and theory, focused on 19^the-20th centuries in the Americas
Thomas F. Reese Professor, Art History Latin American Studies Urban Studies Executive Director, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies (504)865-5164 treese@tulane.edu	Eighteenth-century Spanish art and politics, Culture contact in sixteenth-century Mexico, Devotional space in Colonial Andean society, and Contemporary architectural practice in Europe and the Americas
Matt K. Sakakeeny Assistant Professor, Music African & African Diaspora Studies American Studies (504)865-5274 mattsak@tulane.edu	New Orleans culture, African American music
Mimi Schippers Associate Professor, Sociology Gender and Sexuality Studies Director, Gender and Sexuality Studies (504)862-3011 mimi@tulane.edu	Gender, Sexuality, Theory, and Cultural Studies
Kenneth Schwartz Dean and Professor, School of Architecture (504)865-5389 kschwartz@tulane.edu	Preservation, Urban design and Community planning.
Nicholas Randolph Spitzer Professor, American Studies Adjunct Research Professor, Anthropology (504)862-3043 nspitzer@tulane.edu	American vernacular music, Ethnography of Gulf South expressive culture, Cultural conservation, Creoles and cultural creolization, Public cultural policy, Creative practice as producer and host of American Routes (co-produced by American Public Media).
Catherine Taylor Asssistant Professor Community Health Sciences (504)988-0292 ctaylor5@tulane.edu	Children, social norms, and violence prevention, Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence and their co-occurrence, Child physical abuse, Determinants of childhood aggression, Mass media/communitcation and public health, Primary prevention, Program evaluation, Social epidemiology
Tania Tetlow Associate Professor, School of Law Director, Domestic Violence Clinic (504)862-8812 ttetlow@tulane.edu	Domestic violence, Discrimination, Constitutional law, and Criminal procedure
Katherine Theall Assoc. Professor, Global Community Health & Behavioral Science, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine (504) 988-4535 ktheall@tulane.edu	Social determinants of health, social epidemiology, women and children's mental and behavioral health
Allison Truitt Assistant Professor, Anthropology Urban Studies (504)862-3058 atruitt@tulane.edu	Sociocultural anthropology, Economic transformations, Money and other means of circulation, Cities, consumption, and globalization, and Southeast Asia, Vietnam.
Mark Van Landingham Thomas C. Keller Professor, International Health and Development (504)988-2113 mvanlan@tulane.edu	Migration and Health, Immigrant Health, Disasters and Health, and HIV/AIDS