J Coley

J Coley

Visiting Professor of Practice in Sociology

jcoley@stonehill.edu
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Biography

Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice in Sociology J Coley (they/she) is a 2023 graduate of the University at Buffalo and most recently a Lender Center Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Syracuse University. Their research interests include racial capitalism, socio-spatial inequalities, public policy and social movements. As an urban sociologist and public scholar, their current program of research examines how working-class communities experience and resist gentrification and other urban processes. They have been published in Sociological Inquiry, Rust Belt Studies, Sexuality, Gender, & Policy, Black Perspectives and The Buffalo News. Their forthcoming book, Just Resisting: Black Resistance in the Wake of Urban Renewal, is under advanced contract with The University of North Carolina Press.

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • M.A., Sociology, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • B.S., Sociology, State University of New York at Brockport

Classes Taught

  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Quantitative Research
  • Sociological Theories

Areas of Expertise

Race , Segregation , Gentrification , Black Studies , Housing

Titles

Visiting Professor of Practice in Sociology

Departments

Sociology

  • Coley, J. 2025. “Neighborhood Impacts of Gentrification on Urban Communities,” Lender Center for Social Justice. Syracuse University.
  • Tiana U. Wilson and J Coley. 2025. “The #BuffaloSyllabus, Community Healing, and Reparative Justice in the Aftermath of Racial Violence.” Rust Belt Studies: A Journal of Public and Emplaced Humanities. https://doi.org/10.65233/MTCH3250.
  • James, Shauntey and J Coley. 2023. "Separate but Unequal: Revisiting the Discussion of Trans-Inclusive Bathrooms". Sexuality, Gender, & Policy, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/sgp2.12056.
  • Coley, J, and Robert M. Adelman. 2021. “Gentrification in the ‘City of Good Neighbors’: Race, Class, and Neighborhoods in Buffalo.” Sociological Inquiry 91(4):824-848. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12387.
  • J Coley is a co-creator of the #BuffaloSyllabus, a collection of works about the historical roots and contemporary implications of racism in Buffalo, New York and has been quoted in several New York Times pieces as an expert on Black Buffalo. 

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