Sharon Zukin is a professor of sociology who specializes in modern urban life. She teaches at
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center,
City University of New York. As of 2014, she was also a distinguished fellow in the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center and chair of the
Consumers and Consumption Section]of the American Sociological Association. Zukin was a visiting professor at the University of Amsterdam in 2010-11.