Georgia State Professor of Sociology Dr. Deirdre Oakley will join MPC on Tuesday, March 25 at 5:30 pm (in AU Watkins Building room 106) to discuss HOPE VI and public housing tenant activism in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Oakley's research focuses on urban social inequalities, particularly about race, housing, the built environment, and the spatial arrangements of urban policies. Her collaborative work concerning the federally approved demolition of Atlanta's public housing led to her invited testimony before Congress on housing preservation and the Neighborhood Choice Initiative. RSVP here. 

James R. Jones discusssed his new book, The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress, On Wednesday, October 2 at 5:15 pm at the University of California Washington Center. Dr. Jones is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology and the inaugural director of the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America at Rutgers University, Newark. His newest work analyzes how racism shapes the US congressional workplace and in return, how Black staffers resist unequal and racist work conditions. 

On Tuesday, October 22 at 5:30 pm in Kerwin 301, MPC hosted Gordon Mantler, Greg Squires and Xolela Mangcu for a moderated discussion titled "What Does Chicago Teach Us About Urban Politics in DC and Beyond?”