B.A., American University (Women's and Gender Studies), 2003
M.A., George Washington University (Anthropology), 2006
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (Sociology), 2012
Our Faculty
Emily Molina
Profile
Emily Tumpson Molina is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College. Her research and teaching focus on housing, urban geography, urban policy, and critical data analytics. She is the author of A People’s Guide to New York City with fellow CUNY professors Carolina Bank Munoz and Penny Lewis (U of California Press, 2022) and Housing America: Issues and Debates (Routledge, 2017), as well as articles in the Journal of Urban Affairs, City & Community, Housing Policy Debate, and Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. A first-generation college graduate trained broadly in the social sciences, she integrates her research, teaching, and mentoring through applied, problem-based, experiential, and place-based pedagogies.
Education
Selected Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Books and Publications
Bank Muñoz, Carolina, Penny Lewis, and Emily Tumpson Molina, eds. A People?s Guide to New York City. Under contract at University of California Press.
Molina, Emily Tumpson. 2017. Housing America: Issues and Debates. New York, NY: Routledge.
Molina, Emily Tumpson. 2016 (2015 online). ?Foreclosures, Investors, and Uneven Development during the Great Recession in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.? Journal of Urban Affairs 38(4): 564-580.
Molina, Emily Tumpson. 2016. ?Neighborhood Inequalities and the Long-Term Impact of Foreclosures: Evidence from the Los Angeles-Inland Empire Region.? City & Community 15(3): 315-337.
"Race, Municipal Underbounding, and Coalitional Politics in Modesto, CA and Moore County, NC." Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies 1.1.
Pfeiffer, Deirdre and Emily Tumpson Molina. "The Trajectory of REOs in Southern California Latino Neighborhoods: A Bifurcated Geography of Recovery." Housing Policy Debate 23.1.
"Reversed Gains? The Foreclosure Crisis and African American Neighborhoods in the Los Angeles Region, 2008-2009." Black California Dreamin': The Crises of California's African American Communities. Eds. Ingrid Banks, Gaye Johnson, George Lipsitz, Ula Taylor, Daniel Widener and Clyde Woods. UCSB Center for Black Studies Research.
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
CUNY Interdisciplinary Climate Crisis Research Grant, "Accelerating Climate Adaptation through Community Science, Technology, and Engagement" with Brett Branco, Ricardo Toledo-Crow, and Rebecca Boger ($40,000)
PSC-CUNY Grant, "Property Flipping and Housing Costs in Brooklyn, NY" ($6,000)
CUNY Career Success Course Innovation Grant, "Introduction to Data Analytics and Data Visualization in the Social and Behavioral Sciences," with Louise Hainline and Kenneth Gould ($10,000)
PSC-CUNY Grant, CUNY, "The People's Guide to New York City" with Carolina Bank Munoz and Penny Lewis
William Stewart Travel Award, City University of New York.
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy Dissertation Research Grant, Robert K. Merton Award, for "Studies in the Relation Between Social Theory and Public Policy."
Professional Leadership
Membership Committee (elected), Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association
Committee Member, Robert and Helen Lyn Award for Distinguished Career Achievement in Community and Urban Sociology, Community and Urban Sociology Section, American Sociological Association