His research focuses primarily on urban history and public policy since 1945 with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, inequality and urban governance. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, U.S.A., has taught at various Universities in the United States and the United Kingdom and has held a visiting position at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Chronopoulos is the author of Spatial Regulation in New York City: From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance (New York: Routledge, 2011), which was awarded the 2012 Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize for the best first book in American Studies form the British Association for American Studies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Urban History Association.