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Jerome Krase, Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York is an activist-scholar who works with public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. He received his Bachelor’s Degree at Indiana University and his PhD at New York University. He researches, lectures, writes and photographs about urban life and culture globally. Among his books are Self and Community in the City (1982), Ethnicity and Machine Politics with Charles LaCerra (1992), Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society, edited with Judith N. DeSena (1994), Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005) and Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. (2006) edited with Ray Hutchison, Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class (2012), and Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn with Judith N. DeSena (2016). He is co-editor of Urbanities and serves on the editorial boards of Visual Studies, and the Journal of Video Ethnography. Professor Krase is an officer of ProBonoDesign Inc, and is active in the American, European, and International Sociological Associations, Commission on Urban Anthropology of IUAES, American Italian Historical Association, International Urban Symposium, H-NET Humanities on Line, International Visual Sociology Association, The Polish American Historical Association, and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. He thinks of himself as a social scientist who works "visually."