AJ Golio

AJ Golio (he/him) is a doctoral candidate of Sociology in the City, Culture, and Community program at Tulane University. He is also a Monroe Fellow at the Center for the Gulf South and formerly a Mellon Fellow in Community-Engaged Scholarship.

His work examines the social dimensions of urban processes and municipal policies, mostly related to land use, housing, development, and carcerality. His work thus far has investigated the racialized dimensions of urban gentrification, how zoning, permitting, and other land use regulation shapes neighborhoods and reinforces inequality, and why certain vulnerable populations missed out on pandemic-era rental assistance. This research has been featured in academic and public venues such as American Sociological Review, City & Community, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City, Housing Policy Debate, Punishment & Society, and Shelterforce.

AJ is also a proud educator, and has spent the last three years teaching undergraduate Sociology courses at Tulane. To learn more, visit his website at ajgolio.com.