University of Southern California

David Sloane

Professor
Director, Undergraduate Programs

Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 313
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
Email: dsloane@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-5768
Fax: (213) 740-1801
Curriculum Vita
Ph.D. in History
Syracuse University

Expertise
Urban history, community health planning, health disparaties, cultural landscapes

Biographical Sketch
David Sloane, Ph.D., teaches courses in urban planning, policy, and history, and community health planning and policy. His research examines the urban planning and public health, American, health disparities and community development, neighborhood dynamics of public safety and crime, and public and private commemoration. He is currently engaged in research projects regarding the role of resource environments in health disparities in cardiovascular disease and diabetes among African Americans, changing styles of commemoration in post-Vietnam America, civil gang injunctions and public safety, and a social assessment of Hollywood, California. He authored, The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (1991) and co-authored, Medicine Moves to the Mall (2003), as well articles and book chapters on related research topics. He has served on the board of advisors to the Journal of the American Planning Association and as a director of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. He currently serves as moderator for the Medicine and Public Health Work Group sponsored by the Huntington-USC Institute for the Study of California and the West.

Publications
Sloane, D.C., "A (Better) Home Away from Home: The Emergence of Children’s Hospitals in an Age of Women’s Reform"; M. Gutman and N. de Coninck-Smith (Eds.), Designing Modern Childhoods, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press); Forthcoming

Sloane, D.C., with R.W. Bostic and L.B. Lewis, "The Neighborhood Dynamics of Hospitals as Land Owners"; Lincoln Land Institute publication; Forthcoming

Sloane, D.C., with L.M. Nascimento, G. Flynn, L.B. Lewis, J.J. Guinyard and L. Galloway-Gilliam, "Assessing Resource Environments to Target Prevention Interventions in Community Chronic Disease Control"; Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; 2006

Sloane, D.C., with A.K. Yancey, L.B. Lewis, J.J. Guinyard, L.M. Nascimento and L. Galloway-Gilliam, "Putting Promotion into Practice: The African Americans Building a Legacy of Health Organizational Wellness Program"; Health Promotion Practice; 2006

Sloane, D.C., "From Congestion to Sprawl: Planning and Health in Historical Context"; Journal of the American Planning Association, 72(1):10-18; 2006

David Suárez, "The Institutionalization of Human Rights Education"; David Baker and Alex Wiseman, eds., The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Neoinstitutional Theory (pp. 95-120). Oxford: Elsevier Science.; 2006

Sloane, D.C., "Roadside Shrines and Granite Sketches: Diversifying the American Vernacular Landscape of Memory"; Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, 12: 64-81; 2005

Sloane, D.C., "Cemeteries"; Encyclopedia of New York State (pp.295-296). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press; 2005

Sloane, D.C., "Not Designed Merely to Heal: Progressive Reformers and Children's Hospitals"; Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4(4): 331-354; 2005

Sloane, D.C., with C. Maxson, K. Hennigan, et. al., "It's Getting Crazy Out There: Can a Civil Gang Injunction Change a Community?"; Criminology and Public Policy 4(3): 577-606; 2005

Sloane, D.C., with L.B. Lewis, L.M. Nascimento, et. al., "Assessing Healthy Food Options in South Los Angeles Restaurants" ; American Journal of Public Health, 95/4: 668-673; 2005

Sloane, D.C., "Bad Meat and Brown Bananas: Building a Legacy of Health by Confronting Health Disparaties around Food"; Planners Network (Winter 2004). Reprinted in T. Angotti and A. Forssyth (Eds.), Progressive Planning, pp. 49-50; 2004

Sloane, D.C., with A.K. Yancy, L.B. Lewis, et al., "Walking the Talk: Process Evaluation of a Local Health Department-Community Collaboration to Change Organizational Practice to Incorporate Physical Activity"; Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10(2): 120-127; 2004

Sloane, D.C., "Medicine in the (Mini) Mall: An American Health Care Landscape"; in P. Growth and C. Wilson (Eds.), Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson. University of California Press; 2003

Sloane, D.C., with A.L. Diamant, et al., "Improving the Nutritional Resource Environment for Healthy Living through Community-Based Participatory Research"; Journal of General Medicine, 18(7): 568-575; 2003

Sloane, D.C., with B. Conant-Sloane, Medicine Moves to the Mall; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 2003

Sloane, D.C., with C. Maxson and K. Hennigan, "Not Just a Popularity Contest: Factors that Influence Public Opinion of the Police"; National Institute of Justice Research for Practitioners; 2003

Sloane, D.C., with C. Maxson and K. Hennigan, "For the Sake of the Neighborhood: Civil Gang Injunctions as a Gang Intervention Tool in Southern California"; in S. Decker (Ed.), Policing, Gangs, and Youth Violence, Wadsworth, pp. 239-266; 2002

Sloane, D.C., with C. Maxson, K. Hennigan and M. Ranney, "Community Views on Crime and Policing: Survey Mode Effects on Bias in Community Surveys"; Justice Quarterly, 19(3):565-587; 2002

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