Prentiss Dantzler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Founding Director of the Housing Justice Lab within the School of Cities at the University of Toronto (UofT). He also holds affiliations with the Infrastructure Institute, the Centre for Global Social Policy, and the Graduate Department of Geography and Planning at UofT. As an interdisciplinary community-engaged scholar, Dantzler’s work focuses on how and why neighborhoods change and how community members, institutions, and policy actors create and react to those changes. Dantzler received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs along with a M.S. in Community Development from Rutgers University-Camden. He also holds an M.P.A. (Urban and Regional Planning & GIS) from West Chester University and a B.S. (Energy, Business and Finance) from Penn State University.
He is a member of the “Policing, Enforcement and Justice” working group at the Cook Center.