Author: Michael McQuarrie

Year of DDRG Award: 2004

Grantee University: New York University

Dissertation Title: Community Politics, Urban Regimes, and the Transformation of Low-Income Housing

Current Employment: Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Research Subject Areas: Urban Sociology, Political Sociology, Organizations

Biography:
Michael McQuarrie investigates community development and community organizing and their relationship to institutional changes in urban governance throughout the last 30 years. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on the trajectory of community development and what it can tell us about urban politics in general.

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• Community Politics, Urban Regimes, and the Transformation of Low-Income Housing
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• An Investigation of Individual Perceptions, Neighborhoods, and Disorder
• The Social Organization of Black Suburban Poverty: An Ethnographic Community Study
• Mobility in Isolation: Neighborhood Effects, Spatial Embeddedness, and Inequality in the Migration Pathways of the Urban Poor
• Factors Associated With Ethnic Minority Human Service Utilization: A Community and Organizational Analysis
• Community Change and Recidivism: The Interrelationship Between Neighborhood Ecology and Prisoner Reintegration
• From Coercion to Consent?: Governing the Formerly Incarcerated in the 21st Century United States
• Examining the Influence of the Urban Environment on Parent's Time and Resources for Engagement in Their Children's Learning
• Halfway Home: An Ethnographic Study of Ex-Offender Community Reintegration