Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor, Brooklyn College CUNY is an activist-scholar regarding urban and ethnic community issues. With a BA from Indiana University and PhD at New York University, he writes and photographs about urban life and culture globally. His recent books include Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class (2012), Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn and Diversity in Local Contexts (2017).. He co-edits Urbanities and serves on the editorial board of Visual Studies and the Journal of Video Ethnography. An officer of ProBonoDesign Inc, he is active in the American, European, and International Sociological Associations, Commission on Urban Anthropology IUAES, International Urban Symposium, H-NET Humanities-on-Line, and the International Visual Sociology Association.