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Sociology
Neil Brenner (1997-98)
Neil is Director of Metropolitan Studies and Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies at New York University. His project for the German Chancellor Fellowship focused on the transformation of urban and regional governance in Frankfurt am Main during the last thirty years. His books include New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood (Oxford University Press, 2004); Henri Lefebvre: State, Space, World (co-edited with S. Elden; University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming); The Global Cities Reader (co-edited with R. Keil; Routledge, 2006); Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in Western Europe and North America (co-edited with N. Theodore; Blackwell, 2002) and State/Space: A Reader (co-edited with B. Jessop, M. Jones and G. MacLeod; Blackwell, 2003). Neil's research continues to explore the interplay between geoeconomic restructuring and the regulation of urban and regional development in western European and North American city-regions. Additionally, he has a strong interest in all aspects of state theory, political geography and critical urban theory. He is working on a new book, tentatively titled Globalized Urbanization: Theory and Method. Since his year as a German Chancellor Fellow, Neil has become a competitive long distance runner; he trains with the Central Park Track Club in New York City. (2/4/10)
Ethan Evans (2007-08)
After earning a Master’s Degree in Social Work at California State University, Sacramento, Ethan led a local campaign to ensure that affordable housing is developed as a part of all new communities in Sacramento. His work explored the intersections of local land use policies and their impact on housing opportunities for homeless and low income families. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Ethan worked with direct service organizations and policy groups to understand and compare varying perspectives and service approaches to homelessness. The project included an investigative stage to explore the German understanding of homelessness, direct work with homeless individuals and families, and a comparative policy analysis of homelessness for publication in the journal of the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Wohnungslosenhilfe e.V. Ethan is now pursuing a PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Davis. www.ethanjevans.com (6/26/09)
Jen Gieseking (2010-11)
Jen Gieseking is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation research focuses on the production of lesbians' and queer women's urban spaces and places in New York City from 1983 to 2008 in order to understand what the shifts say about their changing experiences of justice and oppression, and she will continue this work by performing a comparison study in Berlin. She is interested in the co-production space and identity with a special focus on sexuality and gender, cognitive and mental mapping methodologies, and theories of justice, oppression, and the everyday. Previous to being awarded the Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor’s Fellowship, she held fellowships from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Summer Institute for Geographers of Justice, Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellows Program, Instructional Technology Fellows Program at Macaulay Honors College CUNY, and Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Hunter College CUNY, as well as receiving the CUNY Graduate Center Proshansky Dissertation Award. She is presently completing two papers on the mental mapping methodology.(5/6/10)
Yvonne Hung (2007-08)
Yvonne received her B.Sc. in Psychology from McGill University and is a doctoral candidate in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her academic discipline uses an interdisciplinary approach (drawing from psychology, geography, sociology, architecture and planning) to understanding human interactions with their social and physical environment. For the last 12 years, she has been involved in research on issues such as public health, social and environmental justice, community organizing and youth development. Her masters and dissertation research focused on ethnically diverse youth who participated in projects where they had the opportunity to envision and carry out positive change in their community. During her research stay in Germany, her project examined community-based organizations for children and youth in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in Berlin. She considered the political and everyday landscapes of youth participation and concentrated on the contexts, strategies, opportunities and challenges to meaningful community engagement. (7/23/09)
Angela Jancius (2000-01)
Angela is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Youngstown State University, where she is also the Outreach Coordinator of the YSU Center for Working-Class Studies. As a German Chancellor Fellow in Leipzig, she worked on the topic of unions and unemployment after socialism. In 2005 Angela presented some of this research at a Presidential forum on the anthropology of unions at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. (5/13/05)
Cassandra Johnson (1999-00)
As a German Chancellor Fellow, Cassandra conducted research at the Free University Berlin on the social, cultural, and national identities of Afro-Germans. She has a B.B.A. in Marketing and Accounting and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Georgia. Cassandra works for the USDA Forest Service in Georgia.
Mandi Larsen (2008-09)
As a German Chancellor Fellow at the Institute for Legal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Mandi Larsen conducted qualitative research on the health outcomes of violence against women. She remains there as a guest researcher, where she focuses on publishing the results of her study and collaborating with colleagues. Prior to moving to Germany, Mandi spent four years conducting program evaluation and service-based research at Safe Horizon, an organization serving victims of violence in New York City. She also served on the Research Advisory Committee of the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault. Before her work in the field of violence against women, Mandi work with HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality and reproductive health programs in the U.S., Uganda and Sierra Leone. Mandi earned her Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University and her undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Sociology from Seattle Pacific University. (2/4/10)
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