H. Jacob Carlson

Jake Carlson is an urban and political sociologist, focused on democracy, housing, and changing cities. His current research examines the various causes and consequences of gentrification and displacement - and the relationships between the two. He is currently an assistant professor at Kean University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Brown University’s Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and the Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC). He has been a Dissertation Fellow with the Institute for Research on Poverty at Wisconsin, a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Urban Democracy Lab, and a Research Fellow at Participatory Budgeting Project.