Stefano Bloch

Stefano Bloch is an American author and professor of cultural geography and critical criminology at the University of Arizona who focuses on graffiti, prisons, the policing of public space, and gang activity.

Bloch is the author of ''Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture'' published by University of Chicago Press, and appears in the documentaries ''Bomb It'' and ''Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression''. Times Higher Education identifies Bloch as "one of LA's most prolific (and, in some circles, legendary) graffiti writers."

Stefano Bloch is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and faculty member in the Center for Latin American Studies and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory.

Bloch is a graffiti historian and provides expert testimony on legal cases focusing on gang activity and identity.

Bloch's research and commentary on graffiti has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC news, and in other media including Smithsonian Magazine and in interviews with NPR Morning Edition, LAist and the Los Angeles Lakers on NBA.com in which Bloch discusses graffiti in LA and the Lakers' impact on the street art scene, crediting the Lakers organization and its players with bringing some sense of unity to an otherwise racially and economically divided city. Provided by Wikipedia