Stacey Sutton
Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy and the Director of Applied Research and Strategic Partnerships at the Social Justice Initiative
– Currently on sabbatical –
About
Stacey Sutton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy and the Director of Applied Research and Strategic Partnerships at the Social Justice Initiative. Her scholarship and teaching explore questions related to economic democracy and worker-owned cooperatives; solidarity economy infrastructures, ideologies and praxis; Black liberatory zones; and racially disparate effects of punitive city policies. As a scholar-activist, Prof. Sutton partners with various grassroots and community organizations committed to racial and economic justice, equitable development, anti-gentrification, and displacement, community planning, and cooperative ownership models. As the UIC faculty recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Sawyer Seminar grant, Prof. Sutton led comparative cross-disciplinary dialogues among scholars, activists, and artist about radical alternatives for 21st-century American cities.
Prof. Sutton has published in numerous scholarly journals and books. She serves on the editorial board of the Urban Affairs Review and the Board of Directors of In These Times magazine. Prior to joining UIC in 2015, Prof. Sutton taught urban planning and policy at Columbia University. Sutton received a BA Loyola University in Baltimore, an MBA from New York University, and a PhD in Urban Planning and Sociology from Rutgers University.