Associate professor of geography and chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology
Christopher Newport University

John Finn is an associate professor of geography and chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at Christopher Newport University. His research examines racial capitalism, critical landscape studies and environmental justice to better understand the ongoing economic, environmental and health impacts of persistent racial segregation in the United States. For the last four years he has directed a project entitled, “Living Apart: Geography of Segregation in the 21st Century,” which uses oral history interviews, experimental photographic methodologies, historical and archival research and interactive mapping to trace the history of how overtly discriminatory federal housing policy created structures of racialized inequality in housing that continues to produce and perpetuate profoundly unequal urban and environmental outcomes. Dr. Finn holds a Ph.D. in geography from Arizona State University.

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