As we move into the new year, we’re excited to share with the Atlanta Studies community a round up of all the newly-published research on Atlanta from 2025 that we could find outside of our own (virtual) pages. Learn about the latest work on our city, including some of the first studies of the resistance to Cop City, as well as books and articles tracing the long histories of policing and grassroots resistance that gave rise to it in the first place. You can even find books by both of our keynote speakers for the upcoming 13th Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium! If you know of something we’re missing, please be sure to reach out and share with us!
Aiello, Thomas. Return of the King: The Rebirth of Muhammad Ali and the Rise of Atlanta. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025.
Goldstone, Brian. There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. New York: Crown, 2025.
Herskind, Micah, Mariah Parker, and Kamau Franklin, eds. No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025.
Parmett, Helen Morgan. Stadium City: Sports and Media Infrastructure in the United States. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Wiggins, Danielle. Black Excellence: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
Wood, Augustus. Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Booth, Jonathon J. “Policing after Slavery: Race, Crime, and Resistance in Atlanta.” University of Colorado Law Review 96, no. 1 (2025): 1-73.
Bradley, Erin LP, Jayla Norman, Jordan Mackenzie Mitchell, Claire Moore, and Asmiya Kazmin. “Hidden costs of unaffordable housing: Exploring the multidimensional and intersecting health effects on Black Americans.” Journal of Public Health Research 14, no. 4 (2025): 22799036251388582.
Chatelain, Marcia, “Real Housewives, Black Capitalism, and the New South: The Franchise History Behind Dennis “The Hot Dog King of Atlanta.”” In Historians on Housewives: Fashion, Performance, and Power on Bravo Reality TV, edited by Kacey Calahane, Jessica Millward, and Max Speare, 233-246. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Clappin, Elizabeth A. “Used to Good Advantage: The Challenges of Unearthing Atlanta’s History of Convict Leasing at the Chattahoochee Brick Company Site.” The Public Historian 47, no. 4 (2025): 138-159.
Davarpanach, Armita, Hassan A. Babaie, Fatemeh Shafiei, and Na’Taki Osborne Jelks. “Semantic Knowledge and Data Modeling of Environmental Justice.” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 159, Part C (2025) 111736: 1-18.
Edgett, Kayla. “Black Self-Defense as Social Reproduction: Geographies of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Amidst Racialized Uneven Development in Atlanta.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 115, no. 5 (2025): 1088-1103.
Edgett, Kayla. “Toward Autonomous Abolition Ecologies: Lessons from Stop Cop City at the End of Liberal Democracy.” Environmental and Planning E: Nature and Space (2025).
Harris, Camille A., and Clio Andris. “Mapping a Movement: Exploring a Proposed Police Training Facility in Atlanta and its Opposition Movement through Online Maps.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9, no. 7 (2025): 1-23.
Hyde, Allen, Kera Allen, and Shatakshee Dhongde. “From Small Town to the Most Diverse Square Mile in America: Refugee Resettlement and Socio-demographic Change in Clarkston, Georgia.” In Taking Root? Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Migrations, edited by Deirdre Oakley, 119-140. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company: 2025
Immergluck, Dan. “The ‘Beginning of the end’ for the Atlanta Way? Not so fast.” Planning Perspectives (2025): 1-21.
Jelks, Na’Taki Osborne, and JC Gonzalez. “Urban Heat Islands and Associated Health Effects for Vulnerable Populations: Exploring Data, Technology, and Community-Engaged Research to Advance Health Equity.” In Global Climate Crisis: Seeking Environmental Justice and Climate Equity, edited by Hoda Mahmoudi and Kate Seaman, 42-63. Northampton: Edward Elgar: 2025.
Jones, Natasha N., and Donnie Johnson Sackey. “Cop City Counternarratives: Security Logics, Sociotechnical Environments, and Marginalized Communities.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (2025): 1-18.
Kass, Hannah. “Police Statecraft and Post-Property Possibilities in the Weelaunee Forest Struggle.” Political Geography 120 (2025): 1-10.
Rodríguez, Sonia Torres, Luisa Godinez-Puig, Apueela Wekulom, and Michelle Casas. How New City Movements Affect Home Values: Differences in Housing Prices across Newly Incorporated Majority-Black and Majority-White Cities in Metro Atlanta. Research Report. The Urban Institute, 2025.
Simpson, Annie. “Tunnel Vision: Notes from “generic” Atlanta.” Urban Geography (2025): 1-12.
Smith, John Robert. “Bedraggled Magnolias: Song of the South’s 1986 Return to Atlanta.” Journal of Film and Video 77, no. 2 (2025): 19-35.
Wilson, Kathryn E. “Being Like Mayberry: Memory, Landscape, and the White Spatial Imaginary in an Atlanta Suburb.” The Public Historian 47, no. 3 (2025): 7-45.
Brooks, Maya. “Climbing for Higher Ground: Race, Class, and Respectability Among Black Atlantans, 1974-2010.” PhD dissertation, University of Georgia, 2025.
Hafley, Taylor J. “Scaling Up and Stretching Out: The Geographic Heft of Suburban Atlanta’s Rental Giant.” PhD dissertation, University of Georgia, 2025.
Harrison, Sarah. “Monumental Reckonings in the City Too Busy to Hate: Advocacy Groups and Confederate Monuments in Atlanta, Georgia.” Master’s thesis, University of Georgia, 2025.
Johnson, Adeerya Jazman. “Salt shakers: black women’s cultural expression and influence in Atlanta’s hip-hop dance scene.” PhD dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2025.
Lester, Dominique Q. ““The Vanguard for Solving the Nation’s Problems in Schools”: A Historical Case Study of the Atlanta Compromise Agreement of 1973.” PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2025.
Miller, Abigail D. “Art Worker: Atlanta’s Contemporary Art History and the Workers Who Shaped It.” Master’s thesis, Kennesaw State University, 2025.
Murthy, Vindhya. “Mapping Absence, Making Presence: Hydrosocial Repair Along Proctor Creek in West Atlanta.” Master’s thesis, University of Waterloo, 2025.
Schwab, Aylin. “Cultural Dimensions of Trust and Grassroots Political Participation: Black and Latinx Creative Activism in Los Angeles and Atlanta.” PhD dissertation, Heidelberg University, 2025.
