Episode 20 · Coming soon · Connection & aging in place
Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of At Home in the City
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— Dr. Stacy Torres, Episode 20, at 26:10
About Dr. Torres
Dr. Stacy Torres is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, in the School of Nursing's Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her research focuses on aging, social relationships, gender, health and urban communities.
She is the author of At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America, built on 5 years with older New Yorkers at a neighborhood bakery in Manhattan. As a public sociologist, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
She holds a PhD in Sociology from NYU, an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University and a BA from Fordham University. She is a first-generation college graduate who grew up in New York City.
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The book
\"An instant classic.\" Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University
Growing Old in Urban America
by Stacy Torres · University of California Press, 2025
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