Len Albright is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. He earned his PhD in sociology in June 2011 from the University of Chicago.
His research interests include urban sociology, community studies, the built environment, urban theory, and environmental sociology. His dissertation was supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the MacArthur Foundation.
A native of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Len maintains an interest in the history and impact of the Mt. Laurel Decisions, a series of NJ Supreme Court decisions that advocated for inclusionary zoning and housing equality. His dissertation is an ethnographic study of an affordable housing complex in a suburban New Jersey community. The dissertation assesses the impact of the housing complex on its residents as well as the receiving town.
Len is continuing his work on residential mobility programs in the suburbs, but is currently shifting attention to a comparative study of natural gas boomtowns.