Department of Sociology

Lily M. Hoffman directs the Rosenberg/Humphrey Program in Public Policy and is a member of the Ph.D. Program in Sociology at the Graduate Center. Research and teaching interests include urban redevelopment, public policy, and social theory, with a comparative focus on the Czech Republic. Most recently, she has been studying the social, spatial, and political impact of restructuring urban economies with particular attention to formerly marginalized inner-city communities and issues of inclusion/exclusion. Publications include: Cities and Visitors: Regulating Tourists, Markets and City Space (co-editors Fainstein and Judd, Blackwell, 2003); “The Marketing of Diversity in the Inner City: Tourism and Regulation in Harlem,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (June 2003), and "Prague and Postcommunist Tourism" (with J. Musil) in The Tourist City (eds. Judd and Fainstein, Yale U Press, 1999); The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning (SUNY Press, 1989), Community Revitalization Partnerships (Community Research Center, The New School, 1990); and articles on welfare state restructuring, and profession/state relations, among them: "Professional Autonomy Reconsidered: The Case of Czech Medicine under State Socialism," Comparative Studies in History and Society (39:2, 1997); "Welfare State Restructuring and Professional Identity: Czech Physicians in Comparative Perspective," in Professional Identities in Transition, eds. Hellberg, Saks, and Benoit, Goteborg U Press, 1999; "After the Fall: Crisis and Renewal in Urban Planning in the Czech Republic." International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, 18:4, 691-702.