About
Chris Herring is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles.
His research focuses on poverty, housing, and homelessness in US cities. Chris’ work has been published in academic journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, City and Community, City, Teaching Sociology and book chapters in edited volumes of Anthropology, Urban Studies, Social Movements, Geography, and Community-based Research.
His writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, Places, Progressive Planning, Shelterforce, the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, and several homeless street newspapers across the US and Canada. Chris has appeared or had his research featured in the LA Times, NY Times, UK Guardian, Newsweek, Bloomberg’s City Lab, Daily Telegraph (London), Canada’s Daily Mail, the San Francisco Chronicle, and several other news outlets.
Chris has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Poverty, Urban Sociology, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods, and Pedagogy.
His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Center for Engaged Scholarship, the Berkeley Law School's Human Rights Center, the Empirical Legal Studies Workshop at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, the Sociological Initiatives Foundation, and the Horowitz Foundation.
Chris' research, writing, and teaching embraces the ideals of public sociology. He has collaborated on three major studies and publications with the National Coalition on Homelessness and San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. He has also collaborated on research with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, the Western Regional Advocacy Project, and ACORN. Chris regularly consults with think-tanks, county governments, and legal aid groups.
Before coming to UCLA, Chris was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Inequality in America Initiative. He earned his PhD and MA in Sociology from University of California, Berkeley. He’s earned an MA in Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (2010) and a BA in Economics from Bard College (2008). Chris also worked as a Project Manager in New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
