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Mary Pattillo

 

Professor
Department of Sociology

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Areas of Interest:
Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations
Urban Sociology
Qualitative Methodology

 

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Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Faculty Affiliate Institute for Policy Research; Ph.D. University of Chicago 1997. Pattillo's areas of interest include race and ethnicity (specifically the black middle class), urban sociology, and qualitative methods. Pattillo uses the city of Chicago as her laboratory and strives to be an expert in Chicago history, politics, and social life. In her book, Black Picket Fences (University of Chicago Press 1999), Pattillo investigates the economic, spatial, and cultural forces that affect child-rearing and youth socialization in a black middle class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. Black Picket Fences won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association. She has published articles in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and other journals. She is also co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (Russell Sage, 2004). Her most recent book, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (University of Chicago Press) examines the simultaneous processes of low-income housing construction and gentrification in a black Chicago neighborhood. Pattillo is a founding board member and active participant in Urban Prep Charter Academy, the first all-boys public charter high school in Chicago.

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Sociology: 1808 Chicago Av Room 206
Af Am Studies: 1860 S Campus Dr Crowe Hall 5-111
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Phone: (847) 4913409
AfAm: (847) 491-2036
Fax: (847) 491-9907


Office Hours: On leave

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Institute for Policy Research

Ethnography Workshop

African American Studies

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Courses Taught
Soc 207-0 Sec. 20 (Winter 2006):
Problems of Cities
Soc 403-0 Sec. 20 (Winter 2006):
Field Methods
Soc 520: Housing, Community and Public Policy


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