Alli Appelbaum
City and Regional Planning
Comparative urban studies, governance, security, urban theory, middle-class urbanism, densification, urban history, African urbanisms
Tanya Bertone
Anthropology
California, suburbs, manufactured housing, rural and urban dynamics, cultural heritage and preservation, CEQA, archaeology
Gustavo Capela
Anthropology
Nigeria, citizenship, transnational displacement, resistance, maroonage
Isabella Caro Montini
Political Science
Latin American Politics, service provision by state and non-state actors, political violence, criminal governance
Joyce Jiayu Chen
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Autonomous Systems, transportation network, and optimization
Ziwei Chen
Film and Media
media urbanism, infrastructure studies, smart cities, urbanization in the Global South, critical urban theory
Tahir de Noronha
City and Regional Planning
Planning Law, Real Estate, Zoning, Property, and Public Participation
Adrienne Dodd
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
climate change, natural hazards, climate displacement, just climate adaptation and resilience
Eujean Doo
Sociology
development, infrastructure, Korea, state capitalism, (post)colonial modernity
Benjamin Fields
Sociology
Urbanization in the Global South; African urbanisms; informal land and housing markets; urban political economy; real estate and property regimes; governance and informality; diaspora investment and transnational urban development; comparative urban studies.
Emma Goh
City and Regional Planning
Digital Infrastructure, Infrastructure Urbanism, Southeast Asian Urbanisms
Joseph Greenbaum
Political Science
Political economy, waste, toxicity, food, East & Central Africa
Justin Greene
Anthropology
Noise, poetry and poetics, urban infrastructures, affect, discourses of health and hygiene, citizenship, Brazil
Carlos Guirado
Civil & Environmental Engineering
behavioral modeling, agent-based models, causal inference, econometrics, machine learning, demand forecasting
Pranav Kuttaiah
City & Regional Planning
Migration, Citizenship, Democracy, Political Economy, Caste, Race, Critical Geography, Science and Technology Studies
Andrea Lara Garcia
Geography
Borders, political economy, uneven development, urbanization
Flávia Leite
City & Regional Planning
Land and housing policy, housing financialization, access to credit, Latin America
Paola Lorusso
Civil and Environmental Engineering
traffic modeling, wildfire resilience, evacuation planning, risk communication, community engagement
Ameen Lotfi
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Food sovereignty, Indigenous ecologies, ethnobotanical restoration, rural-urban dynamics
Kelly Main
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
climate adaptation, wetlands, colonialism, ecosystem restoration
Jonathan Marty
City and Regional Planning
Housing, public space, urban governance, public/social housing, urban politics, violence and policing, urban history and theory, the city in literature and film.
Coral Murphy Marcos
Spanish and Portuguese
Latin American literature, literary journalism, crónicas, democratization of public spaces, and citizen journalism
Gabriela Paredes
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Liquefaction and Seismic Vulnerability Assessment, Flood Risk Analysis, Urban and Community-Centered Resilience
Isabel Peñaranda Currie
City and Regional Planning
Urbanization in the Global South, Geographical Political Economy, Latin American cities, Peripheral and Frontier Urbanization, Informal Land and Housing Markets
Isabel Qi
City and Regional Planning
Climate change adaptation, environmental planning, urban climate governance, political economy, China studies
Juleon Robinson
Geography
Black Geographies, Urban Political Economy, Dispossession & Displacement, Housing Justice, Prison-Industrial Complex Abolition, New York City
Nick Shatan
City & Regional Planning
Cooperatives, community development, race, finance, US housing policy, urban history, politics of knowledge and participation.
Taesoo Song
City and Regional Planning
Housing Policy, Gentrification, Displacement, Eviction, Neighborhood Changes, Migration
J. Vicente Tinoco Ochoa
Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
Dams, rivers, water infrastructure, reservoir sediment management, Andean river basins, Amazon basin
Derek Wu
Ethnic Studies
Religion, Race, Neighborhoods, Social Services
Liubing Xie
City and Regional Planning
Comparative urban studies, urban history, urban ethnography, peripheral urbanization, urban governance, China, India
Frank Yao
Landscape Architecture and Enviornmental Planning
China Studies, National Territorial Landscape, Environmental History, Belt and Road Initiatives BRI, Urban History, Design History, Urban Morphology, Urban History, Urban Design, Landscape Infrastructure, waterways, and canals
Zhehang Zhang
Sociology
Political economy of development, labor politics, urban poverty, state theory, and comparative historical sociology
Leyi (Joy) Zhou
Social Welfare
geriatric social work, community service delivery, smart community, digital inclusion; qualitative and mixed methods, community-based participatory research, co-design approach
