Colin Jerolmack

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Sociology
Ph.D. 2008 (Sociology), City University of New York; M.A. 2005 (Sociology),City University of New York; B.S. 2000 (Psychology), Drexel University.

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Office Address: 285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10003

Personal Homepage:  http://sites.google.com/site/colinjerolmack/home

Areas of Research/Interest: How relations with the environment and animals structure urban communities and everyday life.

Fellowships/Honors: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar, Harvard University [2008-2010] Distinguished Scholarship Award Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association [2008]

Selected Works:

[Under Contract].  The Global Pigeon.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

2008.  "How Pigeons Became Rats: The Cultural-Spatial Logic of Problem Animals."  Social Problems 55(1): 72-94.  PDF

2007.  "Animal Practices, Ethnicity and Community: The Turkish Pigeon Handlers of Berlin."  American Sociological Review 72(6): 874-894. PDF