Photo by Marcin Szczepanski

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at New York University (on leave), and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Harvard University (2008-2010). 

I received my PhD in sociology from the City University of New York. My interests include Community and Urban Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Human-animal Relations, Culture, Health, and Ethnography. 

I am currently completing a book based on my dissertation, titled "The Global Pigeon" and under contract with the University of Chicago Press.  I am also researching the assessment and communication of risk pertaining to emerging infectious diseases, such as Avian Influenza and SARS, that jump from animals to humans.



Click here to visit my twin brother's website.  He's a real scientist.