Amy Foerster
Department Co-Chairperson
Biography
Awards and Honors
- Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States, Belgium, and Luxembourg, 2021, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Belgium
- Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, 2019, 2019 Visiting Research Fellow
- Michigan Institute for Social Research, 2015, Population Studies Center workshop participation
- German Fulbright Commission, 2011, Fulbright German Studies Seminar
- Pforzheimer Center for Faculty Development, 2008, Innovation in Teaching Award
Education
BS, University of California Riverside
MA, Cornell University
PhD, Cornell University
Research and Creative Works
Research Interest
Immigration, Race & Ethnicity, Organizations, Popular Culture
Courses Taught
Past Courses
AMS 202: Intro to American Studies - LC
INT 198: Art Worlds New York City
INT 297: Work
SOC 102: Introduction to Sociology
SOC 111: Urban Sociology
SOC 111: Urban Sociology - LC
SOC 112: Race and Ethnicity in Cities
SOC 113: Dynamics of Change- What Next?
SOC 209: Ethnic & Racial Minorities
SOC 209: Race and Ethnicity
SOC 220: Social Class
SOC 224: Social Class
SOC 227: Brder Crssng: Immgrtn & Scty
SOC 240: Work and Leisure
SOC 296: Art as Power, Prvlge & Persusn
SOC 296: Pop Culture and Social Change
SOC 296: Utopian Thght & Prctc in US
SOC 297: Tpc: Cities for Social Justice
SOC 301: Popular Culture & Social Chng
SOC 380: Social Research Methods
SOC 390: Internship in Sociology
SOC 395: Independent Study in Sociology
WS 266: Gender, Race and Class
Publications and Presentations
Presentations
Closing the door in a sanctuary city: New York, right to shelter laws and the withering of welcome
Foerster, A. C. (2024). 21st IMISCOE Annual Conference. International Migration Research Network,
Housing action and mutual aid: lessons from Brussels and New York City
Foerster, A. C. (2023). Confronting Cascading Crises Together. Association for Humanist Sociology,
Housing as a Human Right: Anti-eviction Movements and the Undocumented
Foerster, A. C. (2023). From Global to Local: Urban Communities in Flux. Urban Affairs Association,
“Border Surveillance, Pandemic Control and Solidarity: Challenging FRONTEX, EUROSUR, the US Border Patrol and ICE.”
Foerster, A. C. (2022). 45th annual meeting. Association for Humanist Sociology,
“Race, Citizenship and the Right to the City: Urban Migrant Mobilizations in Belgium, Germany and the United States.”
Foerster, A. C. (2022). 50th Anniversary Meeting: Shaping the Future of Urban Research. Urban Affairs Association,
“Pandemic Politics and the Right to the City: Urban Migrant Mobilizations in Belgium, Germany and the United States.”
Foerster, A. C. (2022). 92nd Annual Meeting. Eastern Sociological Society,
Criminalization and Crisis: Migrant Rights and Civil Society in an Age of Nationalism
Foerster, A. C. (2020). 115th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. American Sociological Association,