Julia Rabig

Julia Rabig earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and currently teaches at the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African- American Studies at the University of Rochester. Her dissertation explores the history of community economic development efforts in Newark since the 1950s.


ARTICLES IN SHELTERFORCE since jan 08

  • What’s the Matter With Newark?

    For the community economic development organizations that have spent decades trying to keep Newark’s neighborhoods afloat, the promise of a new mayor has only managed to throw the city’s paradoxes into sharper relief.