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Denise Milstein serves as MA Program Director and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. She is affiliated with INCITE and the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia, and is a member of the Ensayos collective based in Tierra del Fuego. Milstein co-directs the NYC COVID-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive and edits the 'Dispatches from the Field' series publishing ethnographic data.
Her research develops a relational, historically grounded perspective at the intersection of art and politics, culture and environment. Milstein examines urban imaginaries through music, repression's impact on artistic careers, political engagement with counter-culture, and artistic innovation. Her current projects investigate urban dwellers' access to nature in New York City public spaces, interactions with near-obsolete technologies in cultural production, and building a narrative archive of New Yorkers' pandemic experiences. She explores how structural limitations in political and environmental crises foster innovation, cultural shifts, and social change.
Milstein's scholarly work connects environmental sustainability, interdisciplinary collaboration, and participatory action research. Her publications demonstrate expertise in qualitative methods while bridging sociology, art, and environmental studies. As editor of 'Dispatches from the Field,' she promotes timely dissemination of ethnographic research.
As MA Program Director, Milstein oversees sociology graduate education at Columbia. Her work with the Ensayos collective involves research, writing, and performance practices interweaving art, social science, and environmental research. The NYC COVID-19 Oral History project represents her commitment to documenting contemporary social experiences through narrative and memory.
