Dr. Oakley joined the sociology faculty at Georgia State University in the fall of 2007, after spending three years in the sociology department at Northern Illinois University. She received her Ph.D. from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 2003 and did a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research during the 2003- 2004 academic year. She is a member of the Race and Urban concentration.
Her research focuses on how urban policies concerning economic development, housing, public education, and environmental issues either address or perpetuate social inequalities on the local level. She is also interested in the socio-spatial dynamics of urban policy implementation and neighborhood disadvantage, and utilizes Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analytic techniques in her research. She has recently published work in City & Community, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Studies, and has an article forthcoming in the American Journal of Sociology co-authored with Dr. John R. Logan.
She has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level including Social Problems, Urban and Community Sociology, Research Methods, GIS and Spatial Analysis. She has also served as a summer faculty member of the University of Michigan’s Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPRS) program.
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