USC Price School of Public Policy

David Sloane

David Sloane

Professor
Director, Undergraduate Programs

Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 313
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626

Phone: (213) 740-5768

Fax: (213) 740-1801

Curriculum Vitae

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

  • Lee, H.-W., Robertson, P. J., Lewis, L. B., Sloane, D. C., Galloway-Gilliam, L., and Nomachi, J., “Trust in a cross-sectoral interorganizational network: An empirical investigation of antecedents”; Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly; Vol. 41 (4), 609-631; 2012
  • Robertson, P. J., Lewis, L. B., Sloane, D. C., Galloway-Gilliam, L., and Nomachi, J., “Developing networks for community change: Exploring the utility of network analysis”; Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society; Vol. 43 (2), 187-208; 2012
  • D.C. Sloane, with L.B. Lewis, et al , “Transforming the urban food desert from the grassroots up: A model for community change”; Journal of Family and Community Health: 34 S1: S92-S101; 2011
  • D.C. Sloane and H. Choi, “Social Capital and Crime”; Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, in, N Brooks and K Donagy, & G Knaap, (Eds.); 2011
  • D.C. Sloane, “Alcohol Nuisances and Food Deserts: Combating Social Hazards in the South Los Angeles Environment”; Post Ghetto South Los Angeles, in, J. Sides, (Ed.); 2011
  • D.C. Sloane, “Landscapes of Health and Rejuvenation”; A Companion to Los Angeles, with Hise and Deverell (Eds.); 2010
  • 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); 2008
  • Sloane, D.C., with R.W. Bostic and L.B. Lewis, “The Neighborhood Dynamics of Hospitals as Land Owners”; Lincoln Land Institute publication; 2007
  • 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
  • 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, David C. with A. Brandt, “Of Beds and Benches: Building the Modern American Hospital”; in P. Galison and E. Thompson, eds., Buildings and the Subject of Science: Introduction to the Architecture of Science. MIT Press; 1999
  • Sloane, David C. with W. Deverell and G. Hise, “Orange Empires: Comparing Miami and Los Angeles”; Pacific Historical Review, 68(2): 145-152; 1999
  • Sloane, David C. with W. Deverell and G. Hise, guest editors, “Orange Empires: Los Angeles and Miami”; Special Issue of the Pacific Historical Review; 1999
  • Sloane, D. C., “The Evolution of Southern California Hospitals”; In H. Sommer & M. J. Dear (Eds.), Health atlas of Southern California (pp. 21-26). Los Angeles: Southern California Studies Center.; 1999
  • Sloane, David C., “Introduction: Suburbs in Transition”; Lusk Review: Journal of Real Estate and urban Transformations, 4(1): 6-11; 1998
  • Sloane, David C. with S. Einbinder, “Reconceptualizing Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood: Ideas of Community in Intra-Professional Education”; in J.M. McCroskey and S.D. Einbinder (eds.), Communities and Universities: Remaking Professional an Interprofessional Education for the Next Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press; 1998

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