Jay Sokolovsky is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Society, Culture and Language at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is a cultural anthropologist with specialties in the globalization of indigenous Mexico, the anthropology of aging, urban anthropology, and video documentation. He is the 2013 recipient of the Textor Award for Anticipatory Anthropology awarded by the American Anthropological Association, and the author numerous articles and five books, including the award-winning volume, The Cultural Context of Aging (third edition, 2009). Sokolovsky’s research has been done in a Mexican indigenous community, New York's inner-city, and urban neighborhoods in England and Croatia. His latest ethnographic video, Urban Garden: Fighting for Life and Beauty, documents the community garden movement in New York City.
