Stefano Bloch
Associate Professor, School of Geography, Development & Environment
Graduate Program in Social, Cultural & Critical Theory
Trial Expert: gangs, graffiti, crime
Office: ENR2 S-521
Research Areas
Cultural Geography
Cultural and Urban Geography
Gangs, Graffiti, Crime, Criminality/Criminalization, Policing, Prisons, and Identity
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Cultural geographer who conducts research on neighborhood change, criminality/criminalization, policing, prisons, and identity with expertise in LA-based gangs, graffiti, and the use of ethnographic and autoethnographic research methods. He regularly teaches "Crime and the City" (GEOG 150B2), "Cultural Geography" (GEOG 340), an Honors College Seminar, "Cultural and Urban Geography" at the graduate level, and the Oaxaca Study Abroad Spring Break Course.
His first book, Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture, is published by University of Chicago Press (2019). He is currently working on his second book, An Urban Autopsy of an LA Gang Killing, also with the University of Chicago Press.
You may contact him via email if you are looking for an expert witness in cases involving gangs, gang identity, graffiti, or related issues.