AUSTIN ("A.T.") HARRISON

Austin (“A.T.") Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Rhodes College. His research interests include neighborhood change, community development and organizing, housing policy, and structural decline. Previous work has been featured in Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of Urban Affairs, Housing Studies, Metropolitics and more. He has collaborated with the Federal Reserve Bank, Center for Community Progress, the Consumer Federation of America. Enterprise Community Partners and the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. He also co-founded the Memphis Research 4 Action CoLab, a community engaged research collaborative in Memphis. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Georgia State University, his M.P.A. from the University of Memphis and a B.A. in history from Mercer University. He is a trained community organizer, is actively organizing around housing issues in Memphis, and has over a decade of hands-on experience in the community development field.