Meet Manuel Pastor, Ph.D.
Manuel Pastor, Ph.D. is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California when he currently directs the Equity Research Institute. Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental, and social conditions facing low-income urban communities — and the social movements seeking to change those realities. His most recent book is Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter (co-authored with Chris Benner); his previous 2018 book, State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America’s Future, was lauded in a New York Times review as “concise, clear and convincing.”
