Profile

Jerome Krase, Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor, Brooklyn CUNY is an Activist and Public Scholar. Among his recent books are Gentrification around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, (2020); Diversity and Local Contexts, (2017) and Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn (2016). He has contributed to video documentaries on diversity such as the Voice of America’s “The Magic Bus,” (2004), and The National Park Service “Hear Every Voice, ” His curations, lectures, photo essays and exhibitions include "Chinatown: A Visual Approach to Ethnic Spectacles" and “The Changing Face of Brooklyn” at The Brooklyn Art Institute. (2008) He has held elected and appointed positions on many national international scholarly groups such as the American, International, and European Sociological Associations, International Visual Sociology Association, Association for Humanist Sociology, Society for the Study of Social Problems, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently he is President of the European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

He co-edits Urbanities and serves on editorial boards of Visual Studies and Cidades and reviews article and book manuscripts for many journals and publishers. He reviewed grant proposals, for the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Qatar National Research Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Program while serving on many international graduate degree programs. At CUNY, he twice-chaired the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College, was on the Advisory Board of the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute and is a Founding Member of the CUNY Academy of Humanities and Sciences.

He was a founding Co-Editor of H-ITAM (1996-2014) and currently is a Co-Eitor of H-ETHNIC. Professor Krase has been on the Advisory Board and Executive Council Member of H-NET occasionally since 2000- and received the Bill Cecil-Fronsman Teaching Award for Aural and Visual Literacy in the Social Science Classroom H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, in 2004.

As to other activities, Professor Krase gave a Graduate Visual Sociology Workshop, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2018) lectured on “Urban Life and Culture,” Zhejiang University, Hangzhou (2017) and Shenzhen University (2005), China and gave the Ernest Gellner Seminar, at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic while serving as a J. William Fulbright Specialist in 2018. He has also been a Consultant and Tour Leader, for the United States’ State Department, International Visitors Program, and served on many of New York City’s community organizations such as TAMKEEN- The Center for Arab American Empowerment as well as the Brooklyn Borough President’s Task Force on Equity.