Andrew Deener

Andrew Deener is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, specializing in urban inequality, neighborhood dynamics, and community development. His research examines how infrastructure systems shape social exclusion and spatial justice in cities.

Key studies investigate food desert formation through infrastructural exclusion, neighborhood participation patterns that reproduce political conflicts, and limitations of cultural explanations for health disparities. Deener's work integrates critical geography and social-legal perspectives to analyze urban transformations.

Publications offer nuanced analyses of gentrification pressures and community responses, emphasizing the situated nature of neighborhood identities within urban change processes.