Michael R. Glass, PhD

Michael R. Glass is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He traces global processes of urban and regional change to the lived experience of local communities through research on housing advocacy, infrastructure development, and cultural production. He is co-author of Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods (New York University Press, 2016). He is co-editor of Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space (Routledge, 2012), Urban Violence, Resilience, and Security (Edward Elgar, 2022), and Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds (Bristol University Press, 2024), and has authored over twenty peer-reviewed articles on urban development, global fieldwork, and regional studies. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal Regional Studies, Regional Science, and is a Scholar Development Editor for the Journal of Urban Affairs. His Regional Studies Association research network website is www.noir-rsa.com.