Japonica Brown-Saracino, Ph.D.
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Japonica Brown-Saracino, Ph.D. Curriculum Vita (PDF) |
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Japonica Brown-Saracino assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, received her Ph.D. in Sociology in 2006 from Northwestern University. Brown-Saracino is an ethnographer who specializes in urban and community sociology, cultural sociology, and the study of race, ethnicity, and sexuality. In 2004, City and Community published her article, “Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community,” which draws on her study of four gentrifying communities (two small towns and two urban neighborhoods) and introduces her concept of social preservation. She further explores social preservation and gentrification in a 2007 Theory and Society article, “Virtuous Marginality.” Her book, A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity is forthcoming with the Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Series of the University of Chicago Press, with an expected publication date of November, 2009. A second book, The Gentrification Debates, composed of excerpts from defining book chapters and articles on gentrification published over the last forty-five years, is under advance contract with Routledge’s Metropolis and Modern Life Series. With co-authors, Brown-Saracino has written on the practice of ethnography, newspaper coverage of gentrification, and on social movements, sexuality and culture. She is currently conducting a comparative ethnographic study of four small U.S. cities with a growing or emerging population of lesbian and bisexual women and transgender individuals.
Selected Publications:
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Brown-Saracino, Japonica, Fine, Gary Alan & Thurk, Jessica. 2008. “Beyond Groups: Seven Pillars of Peopled Ethnography in
Communities and Organizations,” Qualitative Research, V. 8, N. 5: 547-567 -
Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2007. “Virtuous Marginality: Social Preservationists and the Selection of the Old-timer,” Theory and Society,
V. 36, N. 5: 437 – 468. -
Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2004. “Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community,” City and Community 3:2: June, 2004,
p 125-156.
Forthcoming Books:
- Brown-Saracino, Japonica. In press [anticipated November 2009]. A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Brown-Saracino, Japonica, editor. Under advance contract [anticipated February 2010]. The Gentrification Debates. New York: Routledge.