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Skidmore College
Sociology Department
Aneta Kostrzewa

Aneta Kostrzewa

Visitng Assistant Professor 

Office:  Tisch Learning Center 
Phone: (518) 580-5451
Email: akostrzewa@skidmore.edu

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

BIOGRAPHY

I hold a Ph.D degree in Sociology from CUNY Graduate Center with specialization in urban sociology and migration studies. My research has mainly encompassed the impacts of neighborhood redevelopment, gentrification, and cultural revalorization of urban living on ethnic and immigrant communities, identities, and lives in NYC. I analyze the various forms of gentrification process –commercial gentrification, tourism gentrification, "greenification",  and transnational gentrification– and related displacement – physical, economic and symbolic – by utilizing primarily qualitative, ethnographic and visual approaches. My next research project tackles the issue of "agritainment", and the economic impacts of urban growth on urban-adjacent rural regions.