Japonica Brown-Saracino is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, where she teaches courses on cities, community, qualitative methods, and Boston.  She is the author of A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation and the Search for Authenticity (University of Chicago Press 2009), which won the 2010-2011 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award, and editor of The Gentrification Debates (Routledge 2010).  She is currently completing a book on the migration of lesbian, bisexual and queer women to four small U.S. Cities.