Jonathan Wynn

Education and Interests

(Ph.D. City University of New York–Graduate Center, 2006)

Jonathan Wynn works at the intersection of urban and cultural sociology, and his dissertation project, The Walking Tour Guide, is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries Series). His work has been published in Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Forum, and Contexts Magazine, and he has forthcoming articles in Cultural Sociology and City & Community.

He is currently conducting a comparative, multi–method analysis of three music festivals (the Country Music Association Festival in Nashville, the "Dunkin Donuts" Newport Folk Festival, and the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas), to examine how city stakeholders have adopted "festivalization" as an urban cultural policy, and the affects of city branding on both locals and visitors, event organizers and participants. A third research project utilizes qualitative and quantitative measures to examine how artists and activists use hand-held technologies to engage with urban public spaces.