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Alesia Montgomery is an Assistant Professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. She is an ethnographer focusing on social environmental justice concerns in low-income, racialized communities. Her book, 'Greening Black Urban Regime: Culture Commerce Sustainability Detroit', highlights the battles, aims, and strategies for green redevelopment. Montgomery’s research includes the politics and consequences of water insecurity in low-income, racialized communities, as well as the political and cultural constructions that bridge these communities and help to evaluate, re-imagine, and rebuild connections to water. Her academic expertise spans urban studies, environmental sociology, technology, and intersectional analyses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She is involved in collaborations with institutions to develop innovative methods and tools for gathering, analyzing, preserving, and sharing qualitative data related to environmental problems, aiming to enhance the rigor of research in communities. Montgomery also serves on the Research Advisory Board for the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) at Syracuse University.
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability • Los Angeles, CA
Teaching courses and conducting research related to environmental sociology and urban studies.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.