Landon H. Lauder
PhD Candidate in Sociology | Boston University
Martin P. Levine Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention
Lecturer | Suffolk University
Amateur Photographer
PhD Candidate, Sociology
Instructor of Record and Lecturer
Urban Inequalities Workshop
Amateur Photography
I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at Boston University. My research interests include Community and Urban Sociology, the Sociology of Sexualities, Urban Theory, Queer Theory, and Qualitative Methodology. Particularly, I am interested in examining how the political economy of place delimits certain kinds of queer communities and lifestyles, especially those that challenge normativity. In my dissertation, I use both in-person and digital ethnography--in addition to in-depth interviews--to show how LGBTQIA+ people navigate increasingly expensive urban communities, turning to regional resources in order to forge social, political, romantic, and sexual ties.
My work can be found published in Ethnography, in addition to a forthcoming and co-authored book chapter on sexualities and place with Japonica Brown-Saracino, PhD in the Oxford Handbook of Urban Sociology. I currently have a revise and resubmit at City & Community that examines how homonormative dispositions lead gay people towards or away from certain urban institutions and communities.
While at Boston University, I have been an Instructor of Record for three courses in two departments in addition to serving as a Teaching Fellow for three courses across two departments. As an Instructor of Record, I designed and taught three courses: "Urban Sociology" in the Sociology Department and "Sexuality and Gender in the City," and "Sex in Space: Communities of Sexualities," in the Writing Program--both of which are first-year writing courses exploring academic rhetoric and research through gender, sexuality, and place studies. In Fall 2024, I will be a Lecturer at Suffolk University, teaching "Research Methods In Sociology."
In addition to my teaching experience, I have served in various service roles. For four years, I was the Graduate Coordinator for the Urban Inequalities Workshop, an interdisciplinary academic workshop that brings together researchers and practitioners of urban issues from across the world to discuss cutting-edge research (sponsored by the Initiative On Cities). I am also a mentor to graduate and undergraduate students, in addition to being an Editorial Review Board Member of Armchair, a new and peer-reviewed undergraduate sociology journal. I was a co-organizer and presider for a panel at the global 2023 conference: Gentrification, What Can We Do About It? An International Dialogue.
In addition to my academic and professional work, I am also an amateur urban and street photographer and a father to Bix, my black cat of seven years.
My work can be found published in Ethnography, in addition to a forthcoming and co-authored book chapter on sexualities and place with Japonica Brown-Saracino, PhD in the Oxford Handbook of Urban Sociology. I currently have a revise and resubmit at City & Community that examines how homonormative dispositions lead gay people towards or away from certain urban institutions and communities.
While at Boston University, I have been an Instructor of Record for three courses in two departments in addition to serving as a Teaching Fellow for three courses across two departments. As an Instructor of Record, I designed and taught three courses: "Urban Sociology" in the Sociology Department and "Sexuality and Gender in the City," and "Sex in Space: Communities of Sexualities," in the Writing Program--both of which are first-year writing courses exploring academic rhetoric and research through gender, sexuality, and place studies. In Fall 2024, I will be a Lecturer at Suffolk University, teaching "Research Methods In Sociology."
In addition to my teaching experience, I have served in various service roles. For four years, I was the Graduate Coordinator for the Urban Inequalities Workshop, an interdisciplinary academic workshop that brings together researchers and practitioners of urban issues from across the world to discuss cutting-edge research (sponsored by the Initiative On Cities). I am also a mentor to graduate and undergraduate students, in addition to being an Editorial Review Board Member of Armchair, a new and peer-reviewed undergraduate sociology journal. I was a co-organizer and presider for a panel at the global 2023 conference: Gentrification, What Can We Do About It? An International Dialogue.
In addition to my academic and professional work, I am also an amateur urban and street photographer and a father to Bix, my black cat of seven years.