Dr. Clayton Rosati earned a bachelor’s degree in African-American Studies and Political Science, a master’s degree in Sociology, and a doctorate in Geography at Syracuse University. He is currently an Associate Professor of media and communication at Bowling Green State University.

His research is critically interested in inequality and community well-being, the role of art and technologies in social change, and the construction of built environments in cultural struggles over economic power and liberation. Central to all of this, in his scholarly and creative work, is the condition of Black lives and cultures in the world, which show the extreme burdens of social death and alienation endemic to modernity, as well as creative persistence, resilience and survival amidst oppression.

He is interested in the necessary interconnections of social life, which are limited and pressured by capital, cultural differentiation, and geographic uneven development.

He has been a finalist and multiple nominee for the Master Teacher Award and twice awarded a Faculty Fellowship with the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at BGSU. His first book with Joshua Atkinson, Alternative Spaces/Transformative Places was published in 2020. Rosati’s current book project, Times Square’s Last Peepshow, a geography of the interactive media age, is under contract with University of Georgia Press. And he is also working on a third book-length project, Data Plantation, about community struggles over computing infrastructure and the construction of place, memory, and ancestry.