Derek Hyra Editor & Author

Derek Hyra is associate professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy and director of the Metropolitan Policy Center at American University. His research focuses on processes of neighborhood change, with an emphasis on housing, urban politics, and race. Dr. Hyra is the author of The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville (University of Chicago Press 2008) and recently completed his second book, Making the Gilded Ghetto: Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City (University of Chicago Press Forthcoming), which investigates the redevelopment of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street neighborhood. He received his BA from Colgate University and his PhD from the University of Chicago. Sabiyha Prince is a Researcher and Data Analyst for Houses of Worship and the Environment at the Anacostia Community Museum. She earned her Ph.D in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center and has held teaching positions at American University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Coppin State University. She is the author of Constructing Belonging: Class, Race, and Harlem’s Professional Workers (Routledge 2004) and of African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, DC: Race, Class, and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital (Ashgate 2014).