He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and was a recipient of the University’s Phoenix Fellowship from 2004-07. His dissertation was supported by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the MacArthur Foundation. A native of Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, Len maintains an interest in the history and impact of the Mt. Laurel Decisions, a series of NJ Supreme Court decisions that advocated for inclusionary zoning and housing equality. His dissertation is an ethnographic study of an affordable housing complex in a suburban New Jersey community. Trained as an environmental sociologist, Dr. Albright is also researching issues of community mobilization around hydraulic fracturing and natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania.