Karilyn Crockett Book Release Party: People Before Highways

 

Please join us for a workshop with Karilyn Crockett, followed by a party to celebrate the release of her book People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making (UMASS Press 2018).

 

Workshop on ethnography and oral history as research methods: Department of Anthropology (10 Sachem, room 105), 1:30 – 3:20 p.m.

 

Book release party: Yale Office of LGBTQ Resources (135 Prospect Street), 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

 

Dr. Karilyn Crockett’s research focuses on large-scale land use changes in twentieth century American cities and examines the social and geographic implications of structural poverty. Her book investigates a 1960s era grassroots movement to halt urban extension of the interstate highway system and the physical and political transformation of Boston that resulted. Karilyn holds a PhD from the American Studies program at Yale University, a Master of Science in Geography from the London School of Economics, and a Master of Arts and Religion from Yale Divinity School. She is a research affiliate in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning at MIT and currently serves as the Director of Economic Policy & Research and the Director of the Office of Small Business Development for the City of Boston. Her career mission is to work at the nexus of education, economic development and urban revitalization.

 

Please contact Kristin Hankins for more information: kristin.hankins@yale.edu