Interim Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
Brandi Summers received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City (UNC Press 2019). Her interdisciplinary research examines the relationship between and function of race, space, urban infrastructure, and architecture. Her second book, Oakland Echoes: Reimagining and...