Caitlin Cahill is an Associate Professor of Urban Geography & Politics and Co-Coordinator of the Social Justice/Social Practice Minor at Pratt Institute. A community-based urban & youth studies scholar, for over twenty years Caitlin has collaborated with communities, co-creating collective spaces for engagement, dialogue, creativity, knowledge production, critical research, and action. Our work explores the everyday intimate experience of racial capitalism, specifically as it concerns segregation, displacement, immigration, education, state-sanctioned and slow violence, and other forms of injustice. Recent projects include participating in the struggle against freeway expansion in Utah, the Housing SLC plan and Thriving in Place anti-displacement framework, and the exhibition Re:Play at the Center for Architecture. Critical participatory research projects include the Emancipatory Urban Futures project; the Bushwick Action Research Collective, and Growing Up Policed, in partnership with the Public Science Project and Make the Road New York. In Salt Lake City, Utah Caitlin co-founded the Mestizo Arts & Activism Collective, an intergenerational social justice think tank informed by the urgent concerns of young people.
Caitlin’s work has been published widely in in interdisciplinary journals including: Area; Cultural Geographies; Environment & Planning A; City & Society; Gender, Space & Culture; ACME Journal of Radical Geography; Environment & Planning C: Politics & Space, Journal of Youth Studies, and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, among others. Committed to interdisciplinary, engaged scholarship, Caitlin has received several awards for her public scholarship including a special recognition from the ACLU for her work with young people on educational rights & immigration; the “Speaking Truth to Power Award for Excellence in Collaborative Research” from the Urban Research-Based Action Network (URBAN); the Gender, Place & Culture Jan Monk Distinguished Professorship of Feminist Geography; and several Taconic Fellowship awards from the Pratt Center for Community Development. Currently, Caitlin is an editor at Metropolitics, and on the editorial boards of Community Development, Children’s Geographies, and Curriculum Inquiry. Caitlin completed her doctorate in Environmental Psychology from the City University of New York, Graduate Center.
