David C. Sloane

  • Professor, USC Price School of Public Policy
  • Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 740-5768

Expertise Summary

Expert on the history of urban culture in America, community health planning and attitudes toward death and memorials

Expertise

  • the history of urban culture in America, especially rise of the shopping mall and its influence on urban space
  • the history of medicine, of hospitals and health care facility design
  • community health planning
  • the environmental context of health
  • the history of cultural attitudes toward death and memorialization
  • the history of cemeteries and burial places
  • roadside shrines
  • community policing
  • civil gang injunctions

Additional Information

  • Author of The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (1991)
  • Co-author of Medicine Moves to the Mall (2003)