Andrew Deener

Co-Director

Biographical Statement

Andrew Deener is an ethnographer and historical sociologist with research interests in urban inequality, culture, infrastructure, and the environment. He is the author of two books: Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles (University of Chicago Press, 2012) and The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America (University of Chicago Press, 2020). He is currently working on a series of projects, developing a sociology of infrastructure that emphasizes the changing relationships between urban development, socio-technical systems, and social and environmental problems in the United States. He is also writing a book about global urbanism (with Jonathan Wynn, under contract with Oxford University Press), and he writes and teaches about the logic and practice of qualitative methods and theorizing in sociology. Since 2019, he has been Co-Editor-in-Chief of Qualitative Sociology.