James Dickinson - Gulf Coast Blues, New Orleans in the Aftermath of the Catastrophe.

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James Dickinson (Ph.D., University of Toronto) teaches Cities and Suburbs, Social and Cultural Change, Social Inequality and The Senior Seminar, as well as interdisciplinary courses on art and culture in the Baccalaureate Honors Program.  He has been curator of several exhibitions for the University Gallery.  His current research interests include change and the contemporary city, issues in contemporary art, and the sociology of architecture.  He has recently written and published on social theory, the history of welfare policy, the built environment of American cities, contemporary landscape and public art, and architecture and building types.  He currently lives in Philadelphia.

His essay “Still Swept Away: New Orleans Four Months After Katrina” appeared in the March/April 2006 issue of Designer/builder Magazine.

All images in this gallery are © James Dickinson