J. Phillip Thompson
Assistant Professor
Address
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Room 9-513
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel.: 617-452-2813;
E-mail: jt71@mit.edu
Research Interests
Contemporary black politics
American and urban politics
American urban policy, administration, and management
Barnard Courses
| POS W 3245 |
Race and Ethnicity in American Politics (Fall 1998) |
| POS V 3313 |
American Urban Politics (Spring 2000) |
| POS BC 3320 |
Contemporary Black Politics (Fall 1996) |
| POS V 3711x-12y |
Senior Research Seminar in American Politics (2 semesters) |
| POS G 8417 |
Political Incorporation (graduate course) |
| FSM BC 1232 |
Morality In Political Thought (first-year seminar) |
Education
| Ph.D. | City University of New York, Political Science, 1990 |
| M.C.P. | Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs, 1986 |
| B.A. | Harvard University, Sociology, 1977 |
Recent Experience
Rockefeller Foundation. May 1995 - present, consultant, conducting evaluation (with Ross Gittell)
of New York City housing privatization - resident employment program.
Russell Sage Foundation. September 1995 - August 1996, scholar-in-residence.
National Science Foundation. Fall 1995 - present, public housing research coordinator, NSF
national study on violence.
Ford Foundation. Summer 1995 - present, co-principal investigator (with Ester Fuchs), survey on
the capacity of minority organizations nationally to conduct state budget analysis.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Spring 1993 - present, co-principal investigator (with Susan Saegert),
surveys on "social capital" in public housing.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Fall 1995 - present, co-principal investigator (with
Jeanne Brooks-Gun), study of effects of HUD Moving to Opportunities program in New York.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
What Happened?: Black Mayors and the Limits of Black Politics (tentative book title),
(forthcoming).
"Inner-city Entrepreneurialism: A Critical Review of the Literature," with Ross Gittell, accepted
for publication by The Brookings Institution (forthcoming, 1997).
"Social Capital in Public Housing: Coping with Crisis," with Susan Saegert, (forthcoming, 1997).
"Privatization and Community: Linking Interests in Poor Communities," with Ross Gittell
(submitted for journal review, December, 1996).
"Why Universalism or Ghetto Deconcentration Won't Work: Bringing Race Back In." (submitted for
journal review, December, 1996).
"Investing in Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Private Foundations as Community Development
Venture Capitalists," with Ross Gittell and Jeffrey Sohl (submitted for journal review, October, 1996).
"The End of Liberalism in New York: Homeless Policy in the Dinkins Era," Political Science
Quarterly (Winter, 1996).
"Urban Poverty and Race," in Julia Vitullo-Martin, ed., Breaking Away. New York:
Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1996.
"Dinkin's First Eighteen Months" in Huey Perry, ed., Race, Politics and Governance.
Tallahassee, University Presses of Florida, 1996.
"Empowerment Zones," with Ester Fuchs, in Alfred J. Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman, Children
and Families in Big Cities: Strategies for Reform. New York: Cross-national Studies Research
Program, 1996.
"The Harlem Empowerment Zone," Alexander von Hoffman, ed., New Planning Agenda.
Cambridge: World Bank and the Harvard Unit for Housing, 1996.
