People

Paul Waddell

City and Regional Planning

Urban economics, land use and transportation, urban simulation, urban informatics, visualization

Loïc Wacquant

Sociology

“Urban inequality and marginality, incarnation and habitus, the penal state, ethnoracial domination, politics of reason, classical and contemporary social theory “

Cihan Tugal

Sociology

Political sociology, social movements, religion, Islam and the Middle East, culture, poverty and class, social theory, ethnography

Nick Tsivanidis

Economics and Haas School of Business

urban economics, development economics, economic geography, applied microeconomics

Nicolas Tackett

History

Chinese elite society (9th to 11th century), Late Tang capital cities, Song-Liao border during the 11th century, death and death rituals

Brandi Summers

Geography

Urban space, gentrification, aesthetics, race, racism, identity 

Mark Stacey

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Climate change, coastal erosion, critical infrastructure resiliency, fluid dynamics

Michael Southworth

City and Regional Planning

(Emeritus)

Morphology of the post-industrial city; street design and regulation; design of public space; analysis, design, and management of large scale urban environmental quality; user needs assessment; children’s conception and use of the city

Kenichi Soga

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Infrastructure sensing, geotechnical structures, ground engineering, soil and granular mechanics, deep geomechanics, energy and engineering sustainability, soil-bio interaction, geoenvironmental engineering