Carolyn Thompson

Carolyn Thompson was born in Middletown, Connecticut and was raised through most of her adolescence in New Haven, where she also worked throughout high school. In 2002 she left New Haven for New York City, where she attended Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts, in Greenwich Village. There she developed a strong passion for Urban Studies, continued working part-time throughout her studies, and took the opportunity to study for a semester abroad in Amsterdam in 2005. After graduating in Spring of 2006 on the Dean's List, with an Award for Outstanding Achievement in Urban Studies, Carolyn continued to live in Brooklyn, New York where she worked as a housing application assistant for the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council. In 2008 Carolyn was awarded a Research Excellence Scholarship from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia to undertake PhD research in Human Geography on the subject of master-planned residential development in Australia. She lived and studied in Sydney for three years, before successfully earning her doctorate in 2012. Dr. Thompson moved back to New Haven while finishing writing her dissertation in mid-2011 and began working as an adjunct professor of Geography, first at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, NY, then as an adjunct professor of Urban Studies at the New School, before circling closer to home to teach as an adjunct professor of Geography at SCSU. Dr. Thompson has also taught at Westchester Community College, Housatonic Community College and more recently Fairfield University. She is a committed geographer with continued interests in urban geography and a teaching specialty in issues of race, class, gender, urbanism and colonialism.