Dr. Robert Garot
Associate Professor
Robert Garot received his Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA in 2003. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and affiliated with the CUNY Graduate Center. His book, Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets, published by NYU Press in 2010, has been reviewed in Teacher’s College Record and Contemporary Sociology, and it received Honorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He conducted fieldwork in Tuscany on racialization practices and the experiences of immigrants with the law, and has written on reentry. He served as the Outside Coordinator for the Alternatives to Violence Project at Sing Sing Penitentiary, and has served as advisor to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Urban Institute.
ethnography, youth, ethnomethodology, migration, theory, climate change