is an urban sociologist who grew up in Philadelphia. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in that city, her dissertation provides an ethnographic account of the heavily policed ghetto that emerged as the US continues a War on Drugs and imprisons poor Black men on a massive scale. With Mitchell Duneier, Alice recently completed a history and sociology of the ghetto from early modern Europe to the present. She currently lives in Detroit, where she is studying a number of health problems facing the residents of a collapsing city.