He directed and produced a three-part award winning documentary on the history of public housing for public radio. Venkatesh’s first documentary film, Dislocation, followed families as they relocated from condemned public housing developments. Venkatesh is completing an ethnographic study of policing in the Department of Justice, where he served as a Senior Research Advisor from 2010-2011. His next book, under contract with Penguin Press, will focus on the role of black market economies-from sex work and drug trafficking to day care and entertainment-in the revitalization of New York since 1999. He writes for, and his stories have appeared in This American Life, WIRED, and on National Public Radio.
Venkatesh’ editorial writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. His first book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2000) explored life in Chicago public housing. His previous work, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Harvard University Press, 2006) about illegal economies in Chicago, received a Best Book Award from (2006) as well as the C. His most recent book is Gang Leader for a Day (Penguin Press), which received a Best Book award from The Economist, and is currently being translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, Polish, French and Portuguese.
Ransford Professor of Sociology, and the Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University in the City of New York.
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