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Chronopoulos is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at
Swansea University in Swansea, U.K. His research focuses primarily on
urban history and public policy since 1945 with an emphasis on race,
ethnicity, inequality, and urban governance. He has previously been a
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A., has taught at various
universities in the United States and the United Kingdom, and has held
a visiting position at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Chronopoulos is the author of Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance (New York: Routledge, 2011),
which was awarded the 2012 Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize for
the best first book in American Studies from the British Association
for American Studies. Chronopoulos is the coeditor of two edited
collections. The first, coedited with Christopher Agee is entitled Urban America and the Police Since World War II and the second, coedited with Jonathan Soffer is entitled After the Urban Crisis: New York and the Rise of Inequality. Both of them are published as special sections of the Journal of Urban History.
He is currently researching and writing a number of articles and book
chapters about housing and urban development. Chronopoulos has served
in the Board of Directors of the Urban History Association and is
currently a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a fellow of the
Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.
