Claire W.

Herbert
Curriculum Vitae

University of Oregon | Department of Sociology | Faculty Website

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 2016
M.A. Sociology, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 2014
B.S. Sociology and Political Science, University of Oregon, 2006

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2023 – Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
2019 – 2023 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
2016 – 2019 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University
2009 – 2016 Trainee, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Urban Sociology, Law and Society, Housing and Homelessness, Race and Colonialism,
Sociology of Property, Poverty and Inequality

PUBLICATIONS
Book
2021 Claire W. Herbert. A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property
Informality. Oakland: University of California Press.
*Reviewed in American Journal of Sociology; Social Forces; IJURR; Contemporary
Sociology; AAG Review of Books; Legalities; Space and Culture; Métropoles; Journal of
Law, Property, and Society; Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular
Architecture Forum

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles *denotes current or former student

2024 Claire W. Herbert and Amanda Ricketts*. “Resisting and Reclaiming: Squatting
as Contentious Urban Politics in the U.S.” Social Problems. Online view:
https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spae023

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2023 Claire W. Herbert and Michael Brown. “Race, Property, and Erasure in the Rust
Belt: Viewing Urban Changes through a Binocular Colonial Lens.” Du Bois
Review. 20(2):311-332. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742058X23000061
2022 Claire W. Herbert, Noah Durst, and Deyanira Nevárez Martínez. “A Typology
of Informal Housing in the United States: Lessons for Planners.” Journal of
Planning Education and Research. 44(3):1912-1923.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X221136502
2021 Claire W. Herbert and Jay Orne. “No Lawless Place: Foregrounding Property in
Sociology.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 7(12):1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211045448
2018 Claire W. Herbert. “Squatting for Survival: Precarious Housing in a Declining
U.S. City.” Housing Policy Debate 28(5):797-813.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2018.1461120.
2018 Claire W. Herbert. “Like a Good Neighbor, Squatters are There: Property and
Neighborhood Stability in the Context of Urban Decline.” City and Community
17(1):236-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/cico.12275
2015 Claire W. Herbert, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and David J. Harding. “Homelessness
and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners.” Russell Sage Foundation
Journal of the Social Sciences 1(2):44-79. https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2015.1.2.04
2015 Claire W. Herbert and Martin J. Murray. “Building from Scratch: New Cities,
Privatized Urbanism and the Spatial Restructuring of Johannesburg after
Apartheid.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39(3):471-494.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12180
2013 David J. Harding, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Claire W. Herbert. “Home is Hard to
Find: Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning
Prisoners.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647(1):214-
236. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716213477070

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters *denotes current or former student

2023 Claire W. Herbert. “Informal Housing in the U.S.: Variation and Inequality
among Squatters in Detroit.” In The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our
Social Lives edited by Brian McCabe and Eva Rosen. University of Chicago Press.
In Press Amanda Ricketts* and Claire W. Herbert. “Leveraging the Enforcement
Gap: Uniting Land and Housing Occupations in Philadelphia.” In Dispatches from
the Threshold: Organizing for Housing Justice in a Pandemic edited by Rae Baker,
Alexander Ferrer, and Eric Robsky Huntley. Fernwood Publishing.

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Other Publications *denotes current or former student
In Press Nicole DuBois, Claire W. Herbert, and Ella Mae Sowards*. “Decades of
Social Science Research is Clear: Criminalization of Homelessness is Harmful.”
Research Brief. National Alliance to End Homelessness. [Equal authorship]
In Press Nicole DuBois, Claire W. Herbert, and Ella Mae Sowards*.
“Criminalization of Homelessness Harms Individual and Public Health.”
Research Brief. National Alliance to End Homelessness. [Equal authorship]
In Press Nicole DuBois, Claire W. Herbert, and Ella Mae Sowards*.
“Criminalization of Homelessness Fails to Improve Individual and Public
Safety.” Research Brief. National Alliance to End Homelessness. [Equal authorship]
2024 Team of 10 experts writing for Public Justice. “Brief of 57 Social Scientists with
Published Research on Homelessness as Amici Curiae in Support of
Respondents.” Amicus Brief No. 23-175, delivered to the Supreme Court of the
United States regarding Grants Pass v Johnson. https://www.supremecourt.
gov/DocketPDF/23/23-175/306641/20240403145657027_23-175%20Amicus
%20Brief.pdf
2021 Claire W. Herbert. Book Review. “Squatters in the Capitalist City: Housing,
Justice, and Urban Politics,” by Miguel A. Martínez. City and Community
20(2):185-186. https://doi.org/10.1177/15356841211015951
2019 Claire W. Herbert. Book Review. “Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became
Homeowners in New York City,” by Amy Starecheski. American Journal of
Sociology 124(5):1590-1592. https://doi.org/10.1086/701664
2018 Claire W. Herbert. Book Review: “Creative Urbanity: An Italian Middle Class in
the Shade of Revitalization,” by Emanuela Guano. Contemporary Sociology: A
Journal of Reviews 47(2):182-183. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306118755396n
2016 Claire W. Herbert, Jeffrey Morenoff, David Harding, and Liam Purvis. Policy
Brief. “Residential Instability among the Formerly Incarcerated.” National Poverty
Center 42:1-3. http://www.npc.umich.edu/publications/policy_briefs/brief42/

MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS drafts available, *denotes current or former student

Claire W. Herbert and Michael Brown. “Settler Colonial Logics in Rust-Belt
Revitalization.” [Revise and Resubmit]
Lesley Jo Weaver, Claire W. Herbert, Dylan J. Podrabsky*, and Mackenzie L.
Ní Flainn*. “Co-Opting the ‘Public’ in Public Health: Houselessness and the Specious
Logic of Coercive Displacement in a Mid-Sized US City.” [Under Review]
Claire W. Herbert, Lesley Jo Weaver, Dylan J. Podrabsky*, and Emma Singleton*.
“When Penalties are Framed as Protections: SLBs and the Expansion of Houseless
Governance.” [In preparation for submission to Urban Studies]

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Haisu Huang* and Claire W. Herbert. “RVs as Informal, Post-Disaster Housing:
Feasibility, Stress, and the Pull of Rural Place.” [In preparation for submission to Rural
Sociology]

FELLOWSHIPS
2022 Wulf Teaching Professorship in the Humanities, Oregon Humanities Center,
University of Oregon [July 2022 – March 2023] $8,500
2021 Scholar in Residence, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of
Oregon [2021 – 2022] $10,000
2013 Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship, Center for the Education of Women,
University of Michigan [Aug 2013 – Aug 2014] $35,000
2010 Population Studies Research Traineeship, National Institute of Aging, Institute
for Social Research, University of Michigan [Aug 2010 – Aug 2011] $21,180
2009 Population Studies Research Traineeship, National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan [Aug
2009 – Aug 2010] $20,976

GRANTS
2024 Consumer Justice Research Grant, University of Oregon School of Law:
Government Protections for People Excluded from the Housing Market in Oregon: HB
3115 and Measure 110, $28,647
2022 National Science Foundation, Law and Science Program (Co-PI): Informality and
Inequality in the Global North: Regulation, Non-Compliance, and Enforcement in US
Land Use and Housing Law, $395,000
2022 Sociological Initiatives Foundation: Linking Research to Action Grant for When
Home is Illegal: Reducing the Harms of Unsheltered Homelessness $19,992
2021 Marquina Award (with graduate student Amanda Ricketts), Department of
Sociology, University of Oregon $2,500
2021 Faculty Research Grant, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of
Oregon $6,000
2018 Drexel Faculty Development Fund (co-awardee) for Sociology Speaker Series
$7,800
2015 Rackham Graduate School Travel Grant, University of Michigan $800 (also
awarded 2014, 2014, 2011, 2011)
2015 Law and Society Association Conference Grant $300

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2015 Department of Sociology Small Grant, University of Michigan $400
2014 Rackham Graduate School Candidate Research Grant, University of Michigan
$3,000
2013 Department of Sociology Block Grant, University of Michigan $3,000
2013 Dissertation Research Grant, Dept. of Sociology, University of Michigan $2,500
2011 Rackham Graduate School Pre-Candidate Research Grant, University of
Michigan $1,500
2011 Center for Afro-American and African Studies African Initiatives Research
Grant, University of Michigan $4,000

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS PENDING

2024 American Council of Learned Societies. Book project When Home is Illegal:
Unsheltered Homelessness in America. $60,000 requested.
2024 National Science Foundation, Sociology Program. (Co-PI) Institutions, Property
Relations, and the Uneven Risks and Rewards of Homeownership. $980,000 requested.

AWARDS
2023 Tykeson Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon
$2,500
2015 Mark Chesler Diversity & Social Justice Paper Award, Department of Sociology,
University of Michigan $500
2013 Sociology Department Nomination, Mary Malcomson Raphael Fellowship,
University of Michigan
2010 Rackham Summer Award, University of Michigan $4,000
2009 Eita Krom Award, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan $1,500

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
2024 A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. University of
Missouri – St. Louis. March 21.
2023 Special Session: The New Sociology of Housing: Precarity, Policy and Place. American
Sociological Association, Philadelphia. August 20.
2022 A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. Princeton-Mellon
Research Forum on the Urban Environment, Princeton University. April 11.

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2020 A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. Department of
Sociology, Wayne State University. November 13.
2019 “Squatters and Homesteaders: Understanding Variation in Informal Housing
Practices in the U.S.” Sociology of Housing Conference. Georgetown University.
October 3-4.
2019 “Urban Informality and Urban Decline.” When Cities Won’t Grow Workshop.
University of Michigan – Dearborn. Detroit. April 8-9.
2019 A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. Detroit School
Series, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. February 22.
2017 “Survival Squatting and the Politics of Erasure in Detroit.” Panel on Repression
and Resistance. Department of Social Inquiry, University of Wisconsin –
Superior. March 24.
2014 “Homeless and Housing Insecurity among Former Prisoners.” With Jeffrey D.
Morenoff and David J. Harding. Russell Sage Foundation Conference on Severe
Deprivation in America, New York City. October 30-31.
2011 “City Doubles: Re-Urbanism in Africa.” With Martin J. Murray. Faces of the City
Series, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa. July 5.

INVITED CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS

2024 A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality. Law School
Colloquium Series, University of Oregon. October 3.
2024 “Informal Housing in the US: The Trouble with Toleration in Detroit and
Eugene.” Housing and Homelessness Working Group, University of Oregon.
January 22.
2023 “The Colonial Dynamics of Rust Belt Revitalization.” Department of Planning,
Public Policy, and Management Colloquium, University of Oregon. February 16.
2022 “Informal Housing in the United States.” Consumer Protection Symposium,
University of Oregon Law School. November 4.
2022 “Mass Incarceration and the Housing Crisis.” Keynote for Week Against Mass
Incarceration, National Lawyers Guild – UO Chapter. February 28.
2021 “The Politics of Erasure: Rethinking the Dynamics of Race, Property, and
Displacement in Rust-Belt Revitalization.” Department of Geography
Colloquium, University of Oregon. October 21.
2021 “Housing Instability and Eugene's Vulnerable Populations.” Ideas on Tap
Speaker Series, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon.
March 3.

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CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Organizing and Service
2024 Session Organizer. “Interdisciplinarity and Urban Sociology.” Community and
Urban Sociology Section. American Sociological Association. Montreal, Quebec.
August 9-13.
2023 Organizer. Author-Meets-Reader for Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the
Reproduction of Urban Inequality by Robin Bartram. Urban Affairs Association.
Nashville. April 26-29.
2022 “How Policy and Enforcement Shape Unsheltered Homelessness in Lane
County.” Panel Organizer and Moderator. Wayne Morse Center for Law and
Policy, University of Oregon. April 29.
2021 Organizer. Author-Meets-Critic for Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks
and American’s Tenuous Right to Place by Esther Sullivan. Pacific Sociology
Association. March 18-21. [also served as critic, Remote due to pandemic]
2019 Panel Organizer. “Informal Housing in the United States.” Urban Affairs
Association. Los Angeles. April 24-27.
2018 Symposia Organizer. “Toward a Sociology of Property, Regulation, and Land
Use.” (five speakers). Drexel University. Philadelphia. Fall 2018 – Spring 2019.
2017 Presider. Homelessness and Affordable/Fair Housing. Symposium on The
Future of Housing Policy in the U.S. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia.
September 15.
2017 Panel Organizer. Housing Regular Sessions (three panels). American Sociological
Association. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. August 15-18.

Presentations
2024 “Protecting the ‘Public’ Good: Contradictions in Authority Justifications for
Homeless Sweeps.” Urban Affairs Association. New York, Apr 24-27. With Jo
Weaver, Kindra De’Arman, Dylan Podrabsky, Emma Singleton, and Mackenzie
VanLaar.
2023 Seeing the Rust Belt through a Binocular Colonial Lens: Race, Property, and
Erasure. American Sociological Association. Philadelphia. August 17-21.
2023 Informality in the United States: Challenges and Contributions to Just and
Equitable Cities. Colloquy Session Panelist. Urban Affairs Association. Nashville,
April 26-29.
2022 “Resisting and Reclaiming: Property Occupations by Homeless Mothers in Three
U.S. Cities.” RC21. Athens, Greece, August 26-28.

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2022 “Resisting and Reclaiming: Property Occupations by Homeless Mothers in Three
U.S. Cities.” American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, August 5-9.
2022 “Resisting and Reclaiming: Property Occupations by Homeless Mothers in Three
U.S. Cities.” Law and Society Association. Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-16. [Remote
presentation]
2022 Author for Author-Meets-Critic session for A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the
Rise of Property Informality. Urban Affairs Association. D.C., April 12-15.
2021 “Diagnosing Problems and Envisioning Solutions: Property Occupations in
Philadelphia during the Pandemic.” Geographies of Law Conference. December
13-14. University of Turin, Italy. [Remote presentation]
2021 Author for Author-Meets-Critic session for A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the
Rise of Property Informality. Law and Society Association. May 26-30. [Remote
conference]
2021 “Formalizing Tent Communities: Homelessness and Stop-Gap Measures (during
the Pandemic).” Pacific Sociological Association. March 18-21. [Remote
conference]
2020 “The Social Life of Property.” American Sociological Association. August 8-11.
[Remote conference]
2020 “The Social Life of Property.” Law and Society Association. May 28-31. [Remote
conference]
2019 “A Typology of Squatting in Detroit: Informal Housing Practices in a Declining
City.” Urban Affairs Association. Los Angeles, April 24-27.
2018 “Rethinking Gentrification in the Context of Urban Decline: Settler Colonialism,
Racialization, and Erasure.” American Sociological Association. Philadelphia,
August 11-14.
2018 “Squatting for Survival: Precarious Housing in a Declining U.S. City.” American
Sociological Association. Philadelphia, August 11-14.
2018 “Erasing Squatters, Welcoming Homesteaders: How Detroit’s New Property
Regulatory Schema Reproduces Inequality.” American Association of
Geographers. New Orleans, April 10-14.
2018 “Squatters or Homesteaders? The Unequal Outcomes of Regulating Property
Informality in Detroit.” Urban Affairs Association. Toronto, April 4-7.
2018 “Are you squatter or homesteader? How Race, Class and Place-Based
Inequalities Shape Urban Informality in Detroit.” Eastern Sociological Society.
Baltimore, February 22-25.

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2017 “Settler Colonialism in Detroit and the Politics of Erasure: Theorizing Pre-
Gentrification in Declining Cities.” American Sociological Association. Montreal,
August 12-15.
2017 “Politics of Erasure in Detroit: Rethinking Gentrification’s ‘Displacement’ in the
Context of Urban Decline.” Urban Affairs Association. Minneapolis, March 19-
22.
2017 “Squatting for Survival: Informal Housing in Declining U.S. Cities.” Urban
Affairs Association. Minneapolis, March 19-22.
2017 “Squatting for Survival: Informal Housing in Declining U.S. Cities.” Eastern
Sociological Society. Philadelphia, February 23-26.
2016 “Like a good neighbor, squatters are there: Property and Neighborhood Stability
in the Context of Urban Decline.” American Sociological Association. Seattle,
August 20-23.
2016 “Politics of Erasure in Detroit: The Conditions for the Possibility of Gentrification
in a Post-Industrial City.” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Seattle,
August 19-21.
2015 “The Ethos of Care: Assessing the (Non-legal) Right to Property in Detroit.”
American Sociological Association. Chicago, August 22-25.
2015 “Defining Resistance in Detroit: Intentionality and the Tactic-Strategy
Dichotomy.” Law and Society Association. Seattle, May 28-31.
2014 “The Right to Squat: Legal Consciousness and the Legitimation of Illegal
Activities in Detroit.” American Sociological Association. San Francisco, August
16-19.
2014 “Detroit and the Ethics of Property Re-Appropriation.” Law and Society
Association. Minneapolis, May 29-June 1.
2011 “Solidifying the Right to Space: Consequences of the New Privatized African
City.” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Las Vegas, August 19-21.
2011 “New Cities from Scratch: Public-Private Partnerships and Imagined Private
Cities in Africa.” American Association of Geographers. Seattle, April 12-16.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Sociology, University of Oregon
Urban Sociology (Fall 2024)
Introduction to Deviance, Control and Crime (Winter & Spring 2020, Spring
2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
Community and Crime (Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2024)

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 Housing and Homelessness (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Research Methods (Winter 2021, Spring 2023)
Sociology of Property (Winter 2023)
Sociology of Property [Graduate level] (Winter 2023, Fall 2024)

Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

Honors Housing and Homelessness (Fall 2020)

Department of Sociology, Drexel University

Introduction to Sociology (Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019)
Honors Introduction to Sociology (Winter 2019)
Urban Sociology (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2019)
Housing and Homelessness (Winter 2018)
Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality (Spring 2019)

Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

Sociological Research Methods (Summer 2015)
Public Health – Project Community (Fall 2012, Winter 2013)
Criminal Justice – Project Community (Winter 2012)
Gender & Sexuality – Project Community (Winter 2012)
Education – Project Community (Fall 2011)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Appointments and Committees
Associate Editor, Socius, 2023 - ongoing
Associate Editor, Sociological Perspectives, 2020–ongoing
Activist Scholar Award Committee, Urban Affairs Association, 2018–2020

Policy Consulting (volunteer)

2024 City of St. Louis – vacancy

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2024 National Alliance to End Homelessness – unsheltered homelessness

Peer Reviewer
University of North Carolina Press (2024) University of Chicago Press (2021)
City and Community (2024, 2023, 2017) Cities (2021)
Du Bois Review (2024) Progress in Human Geography (2020)
IJURR (2024) Journal of Economic and Social Geog (2020)
Sociological Perspectives (2023, 2022, 2021) Housing Studies (2019, 2018)
Social Problems (2023, 2020, 2017, 2014) Housing and Society (2019)
Sociological Forum (2023, 2022) Law and Social Inquiry (2019)
Socius (2024, 2023, 2022) Crime and Delinquency (2019)
Journal of Urban Affairs (2022) Housing Policy Debate (2017)
Oxford University Press (2022) City and Society (2016)
NSF Law & Science (2024, 2022, 2017) Law and Society Review (2015)
Polity Press (2021) American Journal of Sociology (2014)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Advisory Committee, Human Subjects Research Board, University of Oregon, 2024-2025
Co-Chair, Housing and Homelessness Research Group, University of Oregon, 2024-2025
Advisory Board Member, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of
Oregon, 2023-2026
SAIL Volunteer [Summer Academy to Inspire Learning, pre-college program for under-
represented high school students], University of Oregon, Summer 2022, Summer
2023
Scholar in Residence Reviewer, Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon, Winter
2023
CAS Dean’s Poster Award Reviewer, College of Arts and Sciences, University of
Oregon, Spring 2022

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, 2024-2025
Ad Hoc Climate Committee, Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon,
2023 – 2024
Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, 2022—2023
Library Liaison, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, 2020–2021

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Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, 2019–2021
Urban Concentration Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, Drexel
University, 2017–2019
Research Committee, Department of Sociology, Drexel University, 2016–2019
Acting Communications Committee Chair, Graduate Employees Organization,
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 2010
Solidarity and Political Action Committee Chair, Graduate Employees Organization,
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 2009–2010
Sociology Department Union Steward, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 2008–2009

MENTORSHIP AND ADVISING

Graduate Students:
Jason DeHaan, PhD Student in Sociology (Dissertation Committee Member)
Amanda Ricketts, PhD Candidate Student in Sociology (Comps and Dissertation
Committee Member)
Mahindra Mohan Kumar, PhD Student in Sociology (Dissertation Committee Member,
Master’s Paper and Comps Chair)
Katie Clarke, PhD Student in Sociology (Comps Committee Member)
Mae Sowards, PhD Student in Sociology (Primary Advisor)
Adam Morse, PhD in Geography (Dissertation Committee Member) – Defended 2022

Undergraduate Students:
Katy Morris (Provost Research Fellowship; Sociology Honors Thesis Advisor), Summer
2024, 2024-2025
Zoe Green (Clark Honors College Thesis Advisor), 2023-2024
Emma Singleton (DucksRISE Research Fellowship), Summer 2023
Sara Sheahan (Sociology Honor’s Thesis Advisor), 2022-2023
Olivia Viorst (Clark Honors College Thesis Advisor), 2022–2023
Taylor Hurt (Clark Honors College Thesis Advisor), 2022-2023
Adriana Grant (Sociology Honors Thesis Co-Advisor), 2021–2022
Anna Nguyen (Clark Honors College Thesis Committee Member), 2021–2022
Shawn Gutierrez (Dean’s Research Award), 2021

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Claire O’Connor and ASUO Senate, UO Basic Needs Program, 2020–2022
Claire Francis (Sociology Honors Thesis Advisor), 2020–2021
Roxie Holt (Sociology Honors Thesis Advisor), 2019–2020

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Respite Care Provider, Department of Human Services, Lane County, OR
Volunteer with the Incarcerated Archive, a creative arts program and online-archive of
work by incarcerated people from across Michigan. 2012–ongoing
https://www.hamtramckfreeschool.org/incarcerated-archive/

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association, section memberships: Crime, Law and Deviance;
Community and Urban Sociology; Racial and Ethnic Minorites; 2014–ongoing
Law and Society Association, research network Socio-legal Approaches to Property,
2014–ongoing
Urban Affairs Association, 2017–ongoing
Pacific Sociology Association, 2019–ongoing
Eastern Sociological Society, 2017–2019

SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE AND CONTRIBUTIONS

Quoted/Referenced
Christian Science Monitor (2024), Streetlight (2024), The Daily Emerald (2021, 2022),
Billy Penn [Philadelphia] (2021), Yes! Magazine (2019), Huffington Post (2018), The
Philadelphia Citizen (2016), Crains Detroit (2016), Bloomberg (2016)

Interviews/Scholarship Coverage
CAS News, University of Oregon. April 22, 2024. https://cas.uoregon.edu/cas-
sociologist-joins-amicus-brief-supreme-court
UO Today, Oregon Humanities Center. May 10, 2021.
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/uo-today/uo-today-interview-claire-
yrvFcmzRJ3n/
New Books Network. December 1, 2020. https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-detroit-
story

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Michigan Daily. February 24, 2019. https://www.michigandaily.com/campus-
life/sociology-professor-presents-research-property-informality-detroit/
American Sociological Association. "Who are you? Squatters can actually help a
neighborhood." ScienceDaily. August 21, 2016.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160821093148.htm
Top of Mind with Julie Rose, BYU Radio. September 7, 2016.
https://www.byuradio.org/e4f6cf56-2eb8-4232-acbe-7f36e9ab14e6
Against the Grain Radio, KPFA Radio. July 7, 2015. https://kpfa.org/episode/against-
the-grain-july-7-2015/

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