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John Major Eason is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and International Public Affairs at Brown University. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and has a bachelor's degree in Urban Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as well as a Master of Public Policy from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Before entering graduate school, Eason worked as a community organizer focusing on housing and criminal justice issues and served as a political organizer for then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. His research challenges existing models and develops new theories related to community, health, race, punishment, and the rural-urban processes. Eason is particularly interested in the emergence of the rural ghetto and has established a new conceptual model for understanding rural neighborhoods. His work extends discussions of concentrated disadvantage from urban to rural contexts, addressing how these communities function under such pressures. He employs multi-method and multi-level approaches to investigate topics ranging from imprisonment and prisoner reentry to murder and healthcare access along the rural-urban continuum.
Brown University • Providence, RI
Teaching and conducting research in the fields of sociology and international public affairs.
Department: Department of Economics