Jerome Krase is Murray Koppleman Professor (1999-2001) at Brooklyn College, CUNY where he teaches courses on Urban Sociology and inter-ethnic group relations. For three decades he has worked as a community activist-scholar and has (co)authored and/or (co)edited Self and Community in the City, Ethnicity and Machine Politics, Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society, as well as many articles on urban life and culture. As a student of "ordinary" urban neighborhood life, he lectures, gives photographic exhibitions, and writes for The Free Press, an alternative newspaper and has lectured and researched on "Spatial Semiotics" at the Universities of Perugia, Pisa, Trento, and Trieste, and was Visiting Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and the University of Rome, "La Sapienza."