Austin Harrison

Austin Harrison

Assistant Professor of Urban Studies

Austin Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Rhodes College. Prior to Rhodes, he worked for nearly a decade as a practitioner in the community development field in Memphis, Youngstown, and other cities across the country. His research interests include neighborhood change, community development and organizing, housing policy, and structural disinvestment. Previous work has been featured in Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of Urban AffairsMetropolitics, and Federal Reserve Bank publications. He also serves as a Senior Research Fellow for Innovate Memphis, a nonprofit think tank in Memphis, Tennessee, driving solutions for a variety of neighborhood-level challenges in the Memphis area. 

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