Colin Jerolmack

Scholar-in-Residence, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program

Colin Jerolmack received a Ph.D. in sociology from the City University of New York in 2008. His primary fields of research are urban communities and environmental sociology. His dissertation is a comparative ethnography that examines the ways that relations with animals structure urban life. He is currently completing a book based on the dissertation, to be published by the University of Chicago Press. As an RWJ Scholar, he is interested in studying the relationship between animal control policies and the perceived threat of zoonotic diseases. He is also researching how people who are socially isolated make decisions about their health, and if they suffer health disparities independent of poverty. After completing the Program, he will assume a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at New York University.