Brian J. McCabe is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. 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.  Along with Professor Eva Rosen, he is the co-editor of a new volume on the Sociology of Housing (University of Chicago Press). With Professor Jennifer Heerwig (Stony Brook University), he is the co-author of a forthcoming book on Seattle’s Democracy Voucher Program (Temple University Press). Professor McCabe is also completing a solo-authored manuscript on the Housing Choice Voucher Program.

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. He previously served as a deputy editor at City & Community and currently sits 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.