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Dr. Prentiss Dantzler joined the University of Toronto (UofT) as an Assistant Professor of Sociology in 2021. Previously, he held faculty appointments at Georgia State University (Urban Studies) and Colorado College (Sociology). He also served as a Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholar at UofT and as a Scholar-In-Residence at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs with a concentration in Community Development from Rutgers University-Camden. He also holds a M.P.A. (Urban and Regional Planning) from West Chester University and a B.S. (Energy, Business and Finance) from Penn State University.

His research focuses on urban poverty, neighbourhood change, race and ethnic relations, housing policy and community development. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Dantzler explores how and why neighbourhoods change and how policymakers and communities create and react to those changes. His current research explores the relationship between housing subsidies and neighbourhood change across the Greater Toronto Area as well as nonprofits and diverging views of gentrification.