FACULTY FELLOWS

Robert C. Allen, Professor of American Studies
Ph.D. (Film and Television) University of Iowa
Research: Historical forms of popular culture and entertainment; development of forms of advertising; commercial cinema; consumer culture

Kenneth “Andy” Andrews, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook
Research: Organizational dimensions of social movements and the impacts of social movements on policitcal and social change

Richard N. Andrews, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
Ph.D. (Environmental Planning and Policy) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Environmental policy and planning; urban environmental policy and management; impacts of environmental policies on urban decisions

Lawrence E. Band, Professor of Geography
Ph.D. (Geography) UCLA
Research: Interaction of hydrologic and ecosystem processes in mixed land use watersheds; pattern and function of urban drainage systems in water and nutrient cycling; exploration of impacts of suburban development patterns on stream water quality

Michele T. Berger, Assistant Professor of Curriculum in Women's Studies
Ph.D. (Political Science) University of Michigan
Research: Politics of deviance; constitutional law; gender, drugs and culture; women, crime and deviance; feminist legal theory; women of color; women and politics.

Philip R. Berke, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (Urban and Regional Science) Texas A&M University
Research: Environmental planning; land use and development management; sustainable development

Maureen Berner, Associate Professor of School of Government
Ph.D. Public Administration/Policy, University of Texas at Austin
Research: Public administration and policy, federal budget policy, public sector, state and
local budgeting with focus on social services, interconnection between government and
nonprofits.

Brian Billman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. (Anthropology) University of California Santa Barbar
Research: Prehistory of Andean South America, evolution of complex political organizations (chiefdoms, states and empires), causes and consequences of warfare, origins of social stratification, cultural ecology, settlement pattern analysis, and the prehistory of southwestern North America.

Judith R. Blau, Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. (Sociology) Northwestern University
Research: Black migration; changing religious compositions of cities; non-profits; aesthetics in architecture; historically black colleges

Paul N. Bloom, Professor of Marketing and Chair of the marketing faculty, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Research: Marketing, social marketing, and professional services marketing

John C. Boger, Professor of Law
J.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Racial discrimination; residential segregation; poverty law; educational inequity

Raymond J. Burby, Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (Planning) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Identification of factors affecting the adoption and effectiveness of measures to mitigate natural and technological hazards, development of improved procedures for involving citizens in urban and environmental planning, identifying factors that enhance the effectiveness smart growth and growth management systems, finding ways to counter environmental racism and injustice in planning and urban development decision-making, and improving the enforcement of and compliance with development management regulations

Thomas J. Campanella, Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Research: History and development of cultural landscapes and the urban built environment, the evolution of the North American built environment and the rapid modernization of Asian cities in recent decades.

Philip W. Cooke, Professor in School of Social Work
Ph.D. (Social Work) University of Pennsylvania
Research: Human services management and community practice; welfare reform

Marion Crain, Professor of Law
J.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Research: Employment law, sex equality, family law, criminal law

Altha J. Cravey, Assistant Professor of Geography
Ph.D. (Geography) University of Iowa
Research: Urban social movements; industrial strategies in 20th century Mexico; social inequities based on gender, race, ethnic and class differences

William A. Darity, Boshamer Professor of Economics
Ph.D. (Economics) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: Inequality, urban underclass, urban poverty and public policy; immigration and urban escalator hypothesis

Charles R. Daye, Brandeis Professor of Law
J.D. Columbia University
Research: Housing law; fair housing; low-income housing; administrative law; torts; non- profits; community development

Michael Edward Emch, Associate Professor of Geography
Ph.D. Geography, Michigan State University
Research: Medical geography/spatial epidemiology; infectious diseases in the developing world; neighborhood-level effects on health and healthcare including violence and suicide

Martin W. Doyle, Assistant Professor of Geography and Curriculm in Ecology
Ph.D. Geomorphology, Purdue University
Research: Eco-hydrology; river processes; hyporheic hydrology; anthropogenic activities in watersheds; numerical modeling

Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research: Interrelations among state, capital, and social movements in a Colombia rainforest region; political ecology framework developed by the region's social movement of black communities, and suggests that this framework contains important elements for rethinking sustainability and biodiversity conservation

Kelly Evenson , Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Research: Physical activity

Walter C. Farrell, Jr., Professor of Social Work
J.D. Columbia University
Research: Immigration issues, political redistricting, race discrimination and employment issues, social welfare policy and urban poverty, urban economic and community development, urban education and public school privatization, and urban health policy

Mark W. Fraser, Tate Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. (Social Welfare) University of Washington
Research: Juvenile delinquency; child welfare services

David R. Godschalk, Baxter Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Development management; hazard mitigation; geographic information systems; coastal planning; dispute resolution

Harvey A. Goldstein, Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (City Planning) University of Pennsylvania
Research: Role of science, technology, and higher education in economic development; comparative U.S.-European technology policies; labor markets

Penny Gordon-Larson , Assistant Professor of Nutrition, School of Public Health
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research: Patterns and Determinants of Obesity in US Adolescents, Environmental Determinants of Physical Activity, Ethnicity and Obesity in US Adolescents, Obesity Epidemiology, Nutrition Epidemiology, Obesity-Related Community Intervention, Body Image and Attitudes

Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Assistant Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. (Social Work) Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Research: Public policy related to issues of economic inequality and social development of low-income families and communities; asset building among the poor; inclusive policy development to promote social and economic equality

Jacqueline Maria Hagan, Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Research: International migration, social policy, religion, and human rights

Jill V. Hamm, Assistant Professor, School of Education
Ph.D.( Educational Psychology), University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research: Social development; adolescent identity development; adolescent cross-race relationships; adolescent peer relationships; gender and ethnicity factors in teaching mathematics

Dottie Holland, Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Research: Identity and Agency, Activism, Social Movements, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Schooling and Work, Gender, US, Nepal

Melissa Jacoby, Professor of Law
J.D., B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Research: Bankruptcy and ways in which debtor-creditor laws are used to manage various kinds of household risk, including risks of home mortgage default and foreclosure

James H. Johnson, Jr., Professor of Geography
Ph.D. (Geography) Michigan State University
Research: Urban underclass; spatial mismatch theory of black male employment; urban social issues

Asad Khattak, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (Civil Engineering) Northwestern University
Research: Intelligent Transportation Systems, traveler behavior, traffic operations and control, transportation planning

Scott L. Kirsch, Assistant Professor of Geography
Ph.D (Geography) University of Colorado at Boulder
Research: Historical, cultural, political geography, science studies and social theory

Sherryl Kleinman, Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. (Sociology) University of Minnesota
Research: Gender inequality in organizations; alternative organizations; qualitative methods; emotions and culture; feminist sociology

Laura Linnan, Assistant Professor of School of Public Health, Health Behavior and Health Education
Sc.D. (Health and Social Behavior) Harvard University
Research: Prevention and control of chronic diseases, especially cancer, with a concentration on applied research efforts in worksites and other community-based settings

Nichola Lowe , Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. Economic Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: Urban and regional economic development; support institutions for innovation; industrial upgrading and entrepreneurship; small enterprise and workforce development

Emil E. Malizia, Professor of City and Regional Planning; Faculty Associate, Kenan Institute
Ph.D. (Regional Planning) Cornell University
Research: Economic development; commercial real estate market research and feasibility methods and techniques; urban redevelopment; development finance

Catherine Marshall, Professor of Educational Leadership,School of Education
Ph.D. (Education) University of California, Santa Barbara
Research: Politics of education, organizational processes, cultural politics, gender issues, feminist analyses of power and ethics

Andrea Meier, Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. (Social Work) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Technology-based social interventions; occupational stress; professional stress resilience; support groups; program self-evaluation; child welfare, hypnotherapy; addictions treatment

David H. Moreau, Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. Harvard University
Research: Analysis, planning, financing and evaluation of water and related environmental programs.

Ted Mouw, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Research: Labor Markets, Stratification, Economic Sociology, Demography, Social structure of labor markets, Social and residential segregation in U.S. urban areas, Gender occupational segregation and Demographic change in Indonesia

Mai Nguyen, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Research: Housing and community development, urban growth and sprawl, race/ethnicity, and inequality

Donald M. Nonini, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. (Anthropology) Stanford University
Research: Urban anthropology, transnationalism, political economy, and cultural politics, with special reference to the Chinese diaspora in urban Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific, and to urban settings characterized by racial and class divisions in the urban American South.

Susan L. Parish.,Assistant Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. (Public Health), University of Illinois at Chicago
Research: Impact of disability, health and poverty policy on low-income families affected by disability; analyses of state support systems for people with developmental disabilities and their families; analyses of income transfers for people with mental retardation; economic impact of raising children with disabilities; child care for children with disabilities; health outcomes for disabled women.

Patricia Parker, Associate Professor, Communications Studies
Ph.D. University of Texas
Research:critical studies of gender, race, and culture in organizations. Her recent work focuses on the communication strategies and leadership behaviors of African American women executives within dominant culture organizations.

James L. Peacock, III: Kenan Professor of Anthropology; Professor, Comparative Literature
Ph.D. (Social Anthropology) Harvard University
Research: Social anthropology; proletarian culture in Indonesia; symbols in social life; cultural change

Krista Perreira, Assistant Professor, Public Policy Analysis
Ph.D. (Health Economics) University of California, Berkeley
Research: Immigration & Welfare Policy; Latino Health and Income Security; Women's Health and Income Security; Medicaid; Substance Abuse; Demography, Labor and Public Finance

Andrew Perrin, Assistant Professor Department of Sociology
Ph.D. (Sociology) University of California, Berkeley
Research: Political Behavior, Culture, Social Movements, Theory, Work and Occupations, Political culture and ideas, Civil society and social capital, Labor and labor movements, Sociology of Internet and high technology, and Southern African politics and culture

John Pickles, E.N. Phillips Distinguished Chair of International Studies and Professor of Geography
Ph.D (Geography with minor in Philosophy) The Pennsylvania State University
Research: Globalization, modernity, and the geographies of social and economic change

Roberto Quercia, Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Housing finance and policy

Shanti Rabindran, Assistant Professor, Public Policy Analysis
Ph.D. (Economics) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: Causes of land fires in Indonesia, household deforestation in Bolivia, the environmental aspect of US-Mexican trade, and the environmental impact of economic expansion in the US-Mexican border region

Paul W. Rhode, Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D. (Economics) Stanford University
Research: Economic history; American agricultural history; energy crises

Daniel Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (Urban, Technological and Environmental Planning) University of Michigan
Research: transportation planning, mass transit and land use planning, travel behavior analysis, and travel demand management tools

William M. Rohe, Smith Professor of City and Regional Planning; Director, CURS
Ph.D. (Man-Environment Relations) Pennsylvania State University
Research: Housing; community development; neighborhood change; evaluation of housing programs; impact of crime on community institutions

David Salvesen, Senior Research Associate, Institute for the Environment
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Land-use policies, issues and trends and their impact on the environment and the quality and character of communities; smart growth; school location and design; natural hazard mitigation; and wetlands protection.

Anne H. Skelly, Assistant Professor of Community and Mental Health Nursing (School of Nursing)
Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo NY
Research:Type II Diabetes in African-American women, particularly in African-American women in rural areas.

Karla Slocum, Assistant Professor of Anthropolgy
Ph.D. University of Florida
Research: Globalization, social movements, race anthropology and development, gender, applied and public anthropology, Caribbean and U.S. Southwest

Yan Song, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. (Urban Economics of Land Use Planning) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research: Land use planning and regulations; smart growth; economics of land use regulations; spatial analysis of urban form; physical planning and urban design; modeling on links between built environment and travel behavior; and how to accommodate research in above fields by using planning supporting systems such as GIS and other computer-aided planning tools.

John B. Stephens, Associate Professor of Public Management and Government (School of Government)
Ph.D., George Mason University, 1997
Research: Public dispute resolution, conflict assessment, training and direct mediation and facilitation.

Meenu Tewari, Assistant Professor Department of City and Regional Planning
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: International economic development, local industrialization, poverty alleviation, small firms, and the urban informal economy

Karolyn D. Tyson, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology
Ph.D. (Sociology) University of California, Berkeley
Research:Sociology of education, qualitative research methods, race and ethnic relations, and social psychology

Lynn Usher, Wallace H. Kuralt, Sr. Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. (Political Science) Emory University
Research: Social program evaluation, especially related to child welfare and public assistance; neighborhood governance, especially as it relates to human services

Robin Visser, Assistant Professor, Curriculum of Asian Studies
Ph.D. (Chinese Language and Literature) Columbia University
Research: Contemporary Chinese urban aesthetics in relations to globalization, urban-rural dichotomies, subjectivity and space, privacy, and narrative ethics

Anna E. Waller, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine
Doctorate of Science (ScD): Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Baltimore, MD.
Research: Injury prevention and control particularly in preventing injury related to physical activity and sports participation.

Judith W. Wegner, Professor of Law, Dean, School of Law
J.D. University of California at Los Angeles
Research: Land use planning; local government reform; public dispute resolution; role of universities in addressing social problems; poverty; American cities

Richard B. Whisnant Associate Professor of the School of Government
J.D. Harvard Law School
Research: Environmental and administrative law; community-based approaches to environmental issues; media and environmental issues.

Gordon P. Whitaker, Professor of the School of Government
Ph.D. (Political Science) Indiana University
Research: Organization and management restructuring of local governments, especially customer-focused and quality-focused

James W. White, Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. (Political Science) Stanford University
Research: Politics of globalization, dualization and metropolitan transformation

Jesse l. White, Jr., Adjunct Professor of School of Government
Ph.D. Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: Nexus between community economic development and post-secondary education; strategic planning; regional economic development.

Thomas Whitmore, Professor of Geography
Ph.D. (Geography) Clark University
Research: Population, medical, and agricultural geography; geographic cultural ecology, demography, and agriculture of pre-Columbian and contact-era Amerindian populations in Latin America.

Dale Whittington, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Environmental Sciences
Ph.D. (General Business) University of Texas at Austin
Research: Evaluation of water and sanitation projects in developing countries; public investment theory and techniques; water resources policy and planning

Rachel A. Willis, Professor of American Studies
Ph.D. (Economics) Northwestern University
Research: Applied microeconomics; service learning; leadership development; public service components of classwork

Wendy Wolford, Assistant Professor of Geography
Ph.D. (Geography) University of California, Berkeley
Research: Social & economic geography, political economy of development, agrarian societies; articulation of work, family and community in the production of resistance

Deil S. Wright, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Administration
Ph.D. (Political Science) University of Michigan
Research: Public administration; organization theory; intergovernmental relations; role of professionals and politicians in policy making

Laura I. Zimmerman, Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work
Ph.D. (Measurement and Evaluation) University of Georgia
Research: Using computers in human services; computer knowledge assessments for human services; community information and referral systems; assessing human service agencies and strategic planning in human service organizations.

 

The Faculty Working Groups

The Faculty Working Groups provide the Center's Faculty Fellows with a forum for interdisciplinary discourse and scholarly exchange on topics related to urban and regional studies. The working groups also facilitate collaborative research efforts among different academic departments. The working groups are organized around topics of general appeal to the Faculty Fellows. A Faculty Fellow acts as the chair of the working group and coordinates the activities of the group which include presentations from group participants, interaction with visiting scholars, and development of research proposals. The Center's current working groups include

Urban Environment
Sustainable Development
Urban and Regional Economic Development
Natural Hazards
Poverty/Equity