Vita
Fall 2017
JAMES C. FRASER
Department of Human &
Organizational Development
+1 615 430 2050
Peabody Campus Box #90
james.c.fraser@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University
jamescfraser.com
Nashville, TN 37203
CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development
Faculty and Advisory Board Member, American Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Energy and the Environment
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences,
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Major Fields:
Urban Studies (sociology and geography); Environmental Studies; Social Inequality/Poverty. (1996)
M.A. in Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Major Fields:
Urban Studies (sociology and geography); Environmental Studies; Social Inequality/Poverty. (1993)
B.A. in Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Major Fields: Urban
Studies. (1990)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Graduate Faculty, Duke University, Durham, NC. (2011-2013)
Associate Research Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
(2003-2007)
Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban and Regional Studies,
University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, NC. (2000-2007)
Adjunct Faculty,
Department of Sociology, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC. (2006-2007)
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology,
Anthropology, and Geography, University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga, TN. (1997-2000)
Director, Center for Applied Social Research, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, TN. (1997-1999)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. (1996-1997)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Thurber, A., Williams, L., & Fraser, J. C. (Manuscript Submitted). A People’s Guide to Nashville. University
of California Press: Berkeley.
Fraser, J. C. (In Preparation). The Making of the Precarious City.
Fraser, J. C., Hanlon, J., Khare, A., & Oakley, D. A. (In Preparation). Social Mix and the City: the plight for
justice.
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Articles
de Vries, D. H., & Fraser, J. C. (2017). Historical waterscape trajectories that need care: the unwanted
refurbished flood homes of Kinston's devolved disaster mitigation program.
Journal of Political Ecology,
24(1).
Oakley, D. A., & Fraser, J. C. (2016). US Public‐Housing Transformations and the Housing Publics Lost in
Transition.
City & Community,
15(4), 349-366.
Fraser, J., Bazuin, J. T., & Hornberger, G. (2016). The privatization of neighborhood governance and the
production of urban space.
Environment and Planning A,
48(5), 844-870.
Thurber, A., & Fraser, J. (2016). Disrupting the order of things: Public housing tenant organizing for
material, political and epistemological justice.
Cities,
57, 55-61.
Fraser, J. C., & Oakley, D. (2015). The Neighborhood Stabilization Program: Stable for Whom?. Journal of
Urban Affairs,
37(1), 38-41.
Oakley, D., Fraser, J., & Bazuin, J. (2015). The imagined self-sufficient communities of HOPE VI:
Examining the community and social support component.
Urban Affairs Review,
51(5), 726-746.
Fraser, J. C., & Kick, E. L. (2014). Governing urban restructuring with city-building nonprofits.
Environment and Planning A,
46(6), 1445-1461.
Bazuin, J. T., & Fraser, J. C. (2013). How the ACS gets it wrong: The story of the American Community
Survey and a small, inner city neighborhood.
Applied Geography,
45, 292-302.
Fraser, J., Oakley, D., & Levy, D. (2013). Guest editors’ introduction: Policy assumptions and lived
realities of mixed-income housing on both sides of the Atlantic.
Cityscape: A Journal of Policy
Development and Research,
15(2), 1-14.
Fraser, J. C., Chaskin, R. J., & Bazuin, J. T. (2013). Making mixed-income neighborhoods work for low-
income households.
Cityscape, 83-100.
Fraser, J. C., Bazuin, J. T., Band, L. E., & Grove, J. M. (2013). Covenants, cohesion, and community: The
effects of neighborhood governance on lawn fertilization.
Landscape and Urban Planning,
115, 30-38.
Fraser, J. C., Burns, A. B., Bazuin, J. T., & Oakley, D. Á. (2013). HOPE VI, Colonization, and the Production
of Difference.
Urban Affairs Review,
49(4), 525-556.
Kick, E. L., & Fraser, J. C. (2013). Risking it: The Longitudinal and Spatial Characteristics of Flooding.
Journal of Medical Safety.
Carrico, A. R., Fraser, J., & Bazuin, J. T. (2013). Green with envy: Psychological and social predictors of
lawn fertilizer application.
Environment and Behavior,
45(4), 427-454.
Fraser, J., Oakley, D., & Bazuin, J. (2011). Public ownership and private profit in housing. Cambridge
Journal of Regions, Economy and Society,
5(3), 397-412.