Jerome Krase

Jerome Krase (born March 2, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York City) is a professor emeritus of sociology at the Murray Koppelman School of Business, and professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College.

Krase is an expert in sociology and gentrification (ethnic groups and Italian-American politics, especially in Brooklyn and its neighborhood, culture, class, urban life, Urban culture, ethnicity and race in New York City). Krase is a public activist-scholar and serves as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. He is a co-editor of Urbanities, and an editorial board member of Visual Studies and CIDADES.

Early life Krase was born on March 2, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York. He calls himself an "authentic Brooklynite," like Bernie Sanders. Stephen Krase had a series of working-class jobs, and Martha Krase was an assistant purchaser for the City of New York.

After graduating from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1960, Jerome went on to study at Indiana University Bloomington campus. In 1963–66 he volunteered and served in the US Army. After a three-year enlistment in the US Army, he earned a BA in Sociology, with minors in History and philosophy, in 1967. In 1973, Krase received his PhD in sociology at New York University. His Doctoral dissertation, "The Presentation of Community in Urban Society," dealt with the underserved stigmatization of a Black neighborhood in Brooklyn, thereby questioning unwarranted negative racial stereotypes in general.

Academic career Jerome Krase's Service to Brooklyn College and the university is exceptional as he has dedicated more than fifty years to the Brooklyn College of the CUNY. He twice chaired the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College, served as Director of its Center for Italian American Studies, was on the advisory board of the CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, and was Founding Member, Officer, and board member, of the Academy of Humanities and Sciences of the City University of New York.

Professor Krase participated and organized different online scholarly meetings, roundtables, forums, seminars, and conferences. He is the author of numerous journalistic and scholarly published articles.

He took part in the discussion "What Images Teach Us," a Philadelphia Photo Arts Center webinar – "Finding Focus In Times of Crisis" (2020), and presented "Life in the Time of Covid-19 in a Hyper-Super-Gentrified Neighbourhood".

In 2020, he was a speaker at the International interdisciplinary online conferences "City as a Classroom," "Sketch a subculture", and "Real Life and Real Economics" organized by the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Dr. Krase has also contributed to video documentaries such as the Voice of America's "The Magic Bus" (2004) and "Hear Every Voice," a National Park Service documentary about his visual sociology and immigrant outreach (2009). Over the years, Professor Krase has served on the Boards of Directors, Awards, Grants and Prize Committees, as well as chairing, or otherwise helping to organize, annual meetings for the American Sociological Association, International Visual Sociology Association, Belgium, and the European Union. In addition, Professor Krase has served on doctoral, or other graduate degree programs at the University of Trento, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Catholic Pontifical University, São Paulo, University of Bergen, Norway, State University of New York at Albany, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice CUNY.

Professor Krase has been active, presenting papers, in these and many other scholarly organizations such as the European Sociological Association and Eastern Sociological Society.

Krase has often been invited to lecture and participate in distinguished panels around the globe, such as: conducting a Graduate Visual Sociology Workshop at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (2018) and lecturing on Urban Life and Culture at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2017).

He gave keynote addresses for the 2016 Fieldwork Photography Symposium, at the University of Central Lancaster, Preston UK (2016); "Cultural, Architectural Heritage and Social Inclusion," at the Università Suor Orsola Benincasa Naples, Italy (2015); a Doctoral Seminar: "Seeing Inequality," at Trento University, Italy (2014); "Ethnic Crossroads: Visualizing Urban Narratives," University of Cologne, (2009); and The URC Lent Term seminar Series, London School of Economics and Political Science (2007).

Professor Krase has been a frequent Consultant and Tour Leader, for the United States' State Department, International Visitors Program. In 1983–1995 he was a Guberna¬torial Appointment to the board of directors of the New York Council for the Humanities.

Public activity Professor Krase has long been an Activist and Public Scholar who continues to consult with public and private agencies regarding urban community and cultural diversity issues.

He has written and photographed widely on urban life and culture and has lectured, exhibited, and researched urban neighborhoods in the US and abroad.

His past, and continuing service, on journal editorial boards, and as a manuscript reviewer for publishers is notable.

These include the following: American Sociological Review, Visual Studies, The Journal of Video Ethnography, Humanity and Society, International Sociology, Ethnologies, City, Culture and Society, Qualitative Sociology, Ethnologies International Migration Review, Housing, Theory, and Society, Contemporary Sociology, Space and Culture, The Cordoba Foundation Cultures in Dialogue, the University of Minnesota Press, Random House, Columbia University Press, SUNY Albany Press and the University of Manchester Press.

He has served on many of New York City's community organizations such as the Gowanus Development Corporation, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Association, the American Italian Coalition of Organizations, and TAMKEEN- The Center for Arab American Empowerment.

He advised the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation, the NYC Controller's Office, and the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation.

He was also a member, of the Brooklyn Borough President's Task Force on Equity, (2004–08) and consulted with the New York City Human Rights Commission.

Photo credits and exhibitions Curator, "The Italians of Brooklyn Revisited," Center for Italian American Studies Student Photographic Exhibition. Brooklyn College Library, October 4 – November 4, 2016.

Co-Curator, "Brooklyn Rising: The '70s and '80s, the Roots of Modern Brooklyn," Exhibit, Brooklyn College, BC Library Archives and Special Collections, Wolfe Institute, and the Center for the Study of Brooklyn, Venues: Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn Historical Society, Sovereign Bank Main Branch, Spring 2007

Archival and Other Photographs, in Contexts Magazine, American Sociological Association, 2005, 2006, 2007.

"The Dream… per non-dimenticare: la diaspora del popolo italiano negli state uniti d'america nel xx saecolo" ("Don't Forget the Dream: The Diaspora of the Italians to the United States of American in the 20th Century,") "le immagini dell'emigrazione nelle collezione americane" archivio centrale dello stato, 2006: 23–34.

Journalism and other published writing Jerry Krase Blog at: "Mall Wonder," "Traces" Blog at 2007, "What Makes you Part of Us?," USITALIA, 2006, "Images of the Silent Majority," USITALIA, 2005. The Brownstoner. A publication of the Brownstone Revival Committee of New York City. 1987–88. "The 'Catch 22's' of Housing Integration", 1988.

"Yuppies and the Market Crash", 1987. Honorary Editorial board member, Visual Studies, Journal of the International Visual Sociology Association, 2020. New York State Assembly Citation for Community Service as a Journalist, educator, and author, 2019.

Fulbright Specialist Assignment Prague, Charles University, May 11–25, 2018. Ernest Gellner Seminar, "Seeing the Image of Cities Change. Again," Visual Presentation, Sponsored by the Czech Association for Social Anthropology and the Czech Sociological Society, in Cooperation with the Institute of Sociological Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, May 15, 2018.

J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, Fulbright Specialist Program, 2017–20. Monsignor Gino Baroni Award, Italian Americana, 2005.

The Bill Cecil-Fronsman Teaching Award for Aural and Visual Literacy in the Social Science Classroom H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington DC, January 2004. Brooklyn College Foundation, Murray Koppelman, Travel Awards. 2000–2001. Kosciuszko Foundation and Polish Ministry of National Education Fellowship Awards to "Explore Polish Vernacular Architecture" Spring, 1997. Visiting professor, University of Trento, October 1996. Fulbright Award, Cancelled by Conflict, Croatia, 1996. Honor for "Interest and Concern to the Brooklyn Community," The Idea of Work in the 21st Century Conference, Chinese American Scholars Association, 1995. PSC/CUNY Faculty Research Award. "Madision Club of Brooklyn" C. LaCerra. Project Director. 1982. Alpha Sigma Lambda, National Honorary Society of Evening Colleges, 1979.

Personal life In 1964, Krase married Suzanne Nicoletti. She had an EdD and worked as a Hospital Administrator. They have three daughters Kristin Martha Krase, MS, an Educational psychologist; Karen Rose Krase, MS, a Pediatric Occupational Therapist; and Kathryn Suzanne Krase, PhD, JD, MSW a Legal and Educational Consultant. The Presentation of Community in Urban Society. A Comprehensive Substance Abuse Information System.

Statistical Guide to Greenwich Village. Traces of Home. Greenwich Village: Statistical Trends and Observations. Seeing Cities Change. Italian-Americans and College Life: A Survey of Student Experiences at Brooklyn College. The Melting Pot and Beyond: Italian Americans. Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn. Ethnicity and Machine Politics. Race and Ethnicity in New York City. Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. The Status of Interpretation in Italian American Studies (editor). Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society. The Staten Island Italian American Experience. Industry, Labor, Technologies and the Italian American Communities. The Review of Italian American Studies. Italian American Politics: Local, Global/Cultural, Personal. Diversity and Local Contexts. Italian Americans Before Mass Migration. Gentrification around the World, Volume I. Gentrification around the World, Volume II. The Melting Pot and Beyond. Varieties of Urban Experience.

Other publications The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City. Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders, and Migration. Invisible angel or what to photograph. Researching the Visual. Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities. Ethnic Landscapes of America. Leaving Little Italy: Essaying Italian American Culture. An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America. Environment and Planning: Society & space. D, Volume 26, Issues 4–6. A Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Townsite Properties in California. Cities and Urban Life.