Caitlin Cahill

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.