Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, May 14th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Guest Speaker Patrick Sharkey titled “After the Uneasy Peace Thinking through the surges and declines of violence in the United States.”
Sharkey is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he has been since 2019. He is a former department chair of Sociology at New York University and served as Scientific Director at Crime Lab, New York and founded AmericanViolence.org, a public depository for data on violence from the 100 largest US cities. Data on the site is drawn from a wide range of sources, with the Gun Violence Archive serving as a valuable source of information on fatal and non-fatal shootings.
Sharkey holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and a BA in Public Policy and American Institutions from Brown University. His most recent book is Uneasy Peace: the Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence (Norton, 2018). Adam Gopnik’s review from The New Yorker is here: Great Crime Decline (February 2018). He co-edited the 2017 RSF Journal issue Spatial Foundations of Inequality with George Galster. His first book, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality (University of Chicago, 2013) won several sociology awards—from the Eastern Sociological Association, the American Sociological Association and from PROSE (Publisher’s Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence) in Sociology and Social Work.