Amy Foerster

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

BS, University of California Riverside

MA, Cornell University

PhD, Cornell University

Research Interest

Immigration, Race & Ethnicity, Organizations, Popular Culture

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

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,

"Pia Klemp, Scott Warren & Visites Domiciliaires: Migrant Rights Criminalization & the Rising Tide of Nationalist Mobilization"
Foerster, A. C. (2019). 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology. Association for Humanist Sociology,