Robert Fisher

Robert Fisher, Ph.D., "is a Professor of Community Organization and Director of the Undergraduate Tri-Campus Urban and Community Studies Program. Bob teaches courses in community organizing, macro foundation methods, and urban and community studies . He also teaches in the Tri-Campus undergraduate program. Bob's areas of specialization include community organizing, urban policy, social movements and theory, and social welfare history." CV


 * Fulbright Scholar, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Urban Social Movements, 1986-88
 * Editorial Advisory Group, Social Policy

Articles, Books, and Book Chapters

 * The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice. Robert Fisher, editor. Vanderbilt University Press, September, 2009.


 * “What ACORN and the New Right Can Teach Us About Current Trends in Community Organizing.” Robert Fisher and Sally Tamarkin., Social Policy 39/1. Spring, 2009. 48-50.


 * Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City, with Michael Fabricant. ( Columbia University Press, 2002).


 * Social Work and Community in a Private World: Getting Out in Public, co-authored with Howard Karger (Longman, 1997).


 * Let The People Decide: Neighborhood Organizing in America Updated Edition (Twayne, 1994, First Edition, 1984).


 * Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in a Global Era, co-edited with Joe Kling (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews Series, Sage, 1993).


 * Community Organization for Urban Social Change: A Historical Perspective, co_edited with Peter Romanofsky (Greenwood Press, 1981)