Prentiss Dantzler

Dr Prentiss Dantzler is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and founding director of the Housing Justice Lab within the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. He also holds affiliations with the Departments of Geography & Planning and Social Justice Education. As an interdisciplinary, community-engaged scholar, his research focuses on housing policy, neighborhood change, and residential mobility, with a particular focus on urban poverty, social welfare policies, race and ethnic relations, and community development. His work focuses on how and why neighborhoods change, and the extent to which policymakers, institutions, and local denizens create and react to those changes. Prentiss received his PhD in public affairs with a concentration in community development from Rutgers University–Camden. He also holds an MPA (Master of Public Administration) from West Chester University and a BS (Bachelor of Science) from Penn State University.