Rebecca Gleit

Assistant Professor of Sociology   

Office: Tisch Learning Center 221
Phone: 518-580-8082
Email: rgleit@skidmore.edu

Education:

• M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University
• M.Ed. Marquette University
• B.S. University of Michigan

Research and teaching interests:

• Education
• Policing
• Social Inequality
• Race and Ethnicity
• Ethnographic Methods
• Quantitative Methods

Recent Publications:

• Moore, C.L. and R.D. Gleit. 2025.“Policing Now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles.”Urban Affairs Review.
  Read more about how intensified policing can fuel urban change here!
• Stuart, F., C.R. Collins, B. Wade, R.D. Gleit, and C.L. Moore. 2024. “Where Do Neighborhood Reputations Come From? Analysing Chicago Community Areas Using a Systematic Neighborhood Reputation Score, 1985-2020.”Urban Studies.
• Gleit, R.D. 2023. “Brokers and Boundary Managers: School Expulsions amid the Non-Punitive Turn.” Social Problems.
• Gleit, R.D. 2022. "Cops on Campus: The Racial Patterning of Police in Schools." Socius.
• Johnson, A.L. and R.D. Gleit. 2021. “Teaching for the Future: Intentionally Building Competency with Statistical Software.” Teaching Sociology.