Presented By: Rackham Graduate School Graduate Student Success
The City as Laboratory: Doing Ethnographic Research for Social Change in the Community
Speaker: Terry Williams, Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research
This event is cosponsored by UROP and the Department of Sociology. Terry Williams, Ph.D. is a social scientist and researcher specializing in teenage life and culture, drug abuse, crews and gangs, violence and urban social policy. He has lectured in the United States and abroad on the impact of drug misuse among teenagers and adults, on graffiti writers, public housing issues, race relations, homelessness and center city life. He is the founder/Director of the Harlem Writers Crew Project, a multimedia approach to urban education for center city and rural youths.
This event is cosponsored by UROP and the Department of Sociology. Terry Williams, Ph.D. is a social scientist and researcher specializing in teenage life and culture, drug abuse, crews and gangs, violence and urban social policy. He has lectured in the United States and abroad on the impact of drug misuse among teenagers and adults, on graffiti writers, public housing issues, race relations, homelessness and center city life. He is the founder/Director of the Harlem Writers Crew Project, a multimedia approach to urban education for center city and rural youths.