Associate Professor
Room
520.32 T
Phone: 212-237-8694
Fax: 212-237-8941
Email: dbrotherton@jjay.cuny.edu
Dr.
Brotherton grew up in the East End of London, England where he worked in
various blue-collar jobs while organizing labor and youth. He came to the
United States in the early 1980's on an exchange fellowship with the University
of California and later worked toward his Ph.D. degree at the University of
California, Santa Barbara while teaching public high school in the Mission
district of San Francisco. Dr. Brotherton gained his doctorate in Sociology in
1992 and began work on street gang subcultures for his post-doctoral fellowship
at U.C. Berkeley in the same year. In 1994, Dr. Brotherton came to John Jay
where he continued his research on youth resistance and marginalization, co-founding
the Street Organization Project in 1997. He has received numerous research
grants from both private and public agencies and has published widely in
journals, books, newspapers and magazines. In 1998 and 2001, he organized the
first academic/practitioner/community conferences on street youth to be held in
New York since the 1960’s and is actively preparing for the third conference to
be held in Brazil in 2003. He is currently preparing three books for
publication by Columbia University Press entitled: Alternative Perspectives
on Gangs and the Community, edited with Louis Kontos and Luis Barrios (in
press); Between Black and Gold: The Street Politics of the Almighty Latin
King and Queen Nation (forthcoming 2002); and Cross-Cultural
Perspectives on Youth, Marginalization and Empowerment, edited with Michael
Flynn (forthcoming 2003).