Author: Gabriella Modan

Year of DDRG Award: 1998

Grantee University: Georgetown University

Dissertation Title: The Struggle for Neighborhood Identity: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Place in a U.S. Multiethnic Neighborhood

Current Employment: Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Department of English, The Ohio State University

Research Subject Areas: Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Ethnicity, Urban Identity, Place and Space Theory

Biography:
Gabriella Modan is associate professor of sociolinguistics in the English Department at The Ohio State University. Her work focuses on the intersection of language, ethnicity, and urban identity. She is the author of Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place, as well as of articles in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and urban studies.

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• African-American Women's Activism and Ghetto Formation in Washington, D.C.
• Creating Healthy Communities One Byte at a Time
• I Have Always Wanted to Have a Neighbor, Just Like You: Race and Residential Segregation in the City of Angels
• Income, Race, and Space: A Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Poverty Concentration on White and Black Neighborhoods in the Detroit and Pittsburgh Metropolitan Areas
• Interpreting Neighborhood Change
• Isolation and the Enclave: The Presence and Variety of Strong Ties Among Immigrants
• Knowledge Production and Use in Community-Based Organizations: Examining the Impacts and Influence of Information Technologies
• The Challenge of the Working-Class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937-52
• Navigating Networks and Neighborhoods: Residential Mobility of the Urban Poor
• Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1935-95
• Racial and Ethnic Diversity In Select U.S. Urban Neighborhoods, 1980 To 1990
• Shifting Ground in Metropolitan America: Class, Race, and Power in Oakland and the East Bay, 1945-77
• Sharing America's Neighborhoods: The Changing Prospects for Stable Racial Integration
• Social Networks and Social Capital as Resources for Neighborhood Revitalization: Volume One and Two
• The Struggle for Neighborhood Identity: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Place in a U.S. Multiethnic Neighborhood
• Why Do They Stay? Rootendness and Isolation in an Inner-City White Neighborhood
• Government Intervention in Mortgage Credit Markets: Increases in Lending to Minority and Low-Income Communities, Reductions in Neighborhood Crime From Homeownership, and Potential Efficiency Gains for Banks From Regulation
• The Social Consequences of Racial Residential Integration
• Citizen Participation in U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Programs: From the Great Society to the New Federalism
• Communal Re-Appropriation of Blighted Spaces: Governmentality and the Politics of Everyday Life in the Kensington Recovery House Movement
• Beyond School Walls: The Politics of Community and Place in Two Philadelphia Neighborhoods
• Revivals Among the Urban Poor: A Look at Civic Participation and Collective Efficacy in Churches
• Creative Federalism, Empowered Citizens: Shaping the Great Society City