Brian J. McCabe is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, where he also serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. He holds an affiliated appointment as faculty member in the McCourt School of Public Policy. Professor McCabe served as the inaugural Faculty Director for Research and Scholarship at the Center for Social Justice.
Through his research and scholarship, Professor McCabe seeks to understand social inequality in American cities. His research focuses on several urban policy issues, including low-income housing programs, municipal campaign finance, neighborhood change and historic preservation.
Professor McCabe has published widely in an interdisciplinary set of journals, including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociological Science, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Socius, Housing Policy Debate, Cityscape, City & Community, the Journal of Urban Economics, the Urban Affairs Review and the Journal of the American Planning Association. Along with Ann Owens (UCLA), he is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of City & Community and serves on the editorial board of Housing Policy Debate. In 2022, he was appointed by the Biden-Harris Administration to serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.