Assistant Professor
murphyal@umich.eduOffice Information:
3162 LSA Building
Demography; Inequalities and Stratification; Politics and Social Change; Qualitative Approaches; Race and Ethnicity; Urban and Community Sociology; Sociology
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Princeton University, 2012Highlighted Work and Publications
The Urban Ethnography Reader
Alexandra Murphy, Mitchell Dunier, Philip Kasinitz (eds)
Description from Publisher: Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers. The past few decades have seen an extraordinary revival in the field, as scholars and the public at large grapple with the increasingly complex and pressing issues that affect the ever-changing American city-from poverty to the immigrant experience, the changing nature of social...
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