Faculty Affiliates

Access to water, sanitation, and other basic services, local and regional environmental sustainability, public participation and collaborative governance

climate emergency; political economy; eco-apartheid; inequalities of race and class; urban studies; political sociology

Public policy and urban governance processes, organization theory, public administration, political sociology and network analysis, Western Europe

U.S. local and state politics, public sector unions, women in politics, public employee pensions

Multi-hazard stressors on geotechnical engineering infrastructure; lifeline response to natural disasters; designing, monitoring and reinforcing lifelines; advanced sensing; vibrations from pile driving in dense urban environments

Modelling and control of distributed parameters systems: large scale infrastructure systems, transportation, water distribution

urban planning, urban design, community development, environmental planning, racial geographies, race and urban development, citizen participation

Comparative urban studies, social theory, ethnography and qualitative methodology, Brazil, democratization, cultural movements

Environmental and reparative justice, green infrastructure and stormwater management, anti-racism in engineering education, food-energy-water systems, community engagement and development

Literature and philosophy, aesthetic theory, the novel, early modern Europe

Population stressors for gestation, maternal health

Multi-hazard risk analysis; reliability of critical infrastructure systems; climate adaptation and disaster resilience; structural engineering; extreme event modeling

(Emeritus) Transportation Planning; Transportation and Land Use; Infrastructure Planning; Growth Management planning; International Development

(Emerita) Housing, community and economic development, regional planning, residential and commercial/industrial displacement

Social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor and work, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic humanities, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

Land use and development policies, public transportation services, travel patterns and residential choices of immigrants to the U.S.

(Emerita) Intergovernmental Relations, Evaluation, Housing Policy, Organizational Theory, Planning Theory

Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation; infrastructure and politics; neoliberalism and governmental rationality; emergency government in the United States; urban vulnerability and resilience; climate change

Urban gun violence reduction; urban climate justice; informal settlements & health; environmental policy & planning; environmental health; urban environmental justice; health impact assessment; science & technology studies; environmental dispute resolution

Urban spatial politics, activism and cultural identity, queer culture, neoliberal globalization, nationalism, collective violence

(Emerita) Transportation policy, planning and analysis; land use policy and planning; legal and regulatory issues; institutions and organizations; energy and the environment, new technologies

Urbanization, remote sensing, spatial analysis, urban heat exposure, green infrastructure, resilience, restoration, wetland and urban landscape ecology

(Emeritus) Globalization, Labor Movements, States, Development

Children, health inequality, immigrant health, nutrition, public health

property, racial capitalism, digital geographies, economic geography, political economy, urban theory

Applied microeconomics, development economics, political economy

Social-cultural anthropology, media, music and sound, photography and cinema, Australia

Transportation policy and planning, Major infrastructure projects, American politics and conservative views about planning

Architecture and city planning in the Italian colonies

Drinking water treatment, innovation, social placement of technology, systems thinking, energy efficiency, global impact, developing world

Race and ethnic politics, urban politics, bureaucratic politics, policing, criminal justice reform, quantitative methods

Urban sciences, Social networks, People and the built and natural environment

Development economics, urban economics, subway infrastructure, rural land titling, road infrastructure, crime, and political economy

Natural materials innovation, resilient buildings, multiscale design

Environmental planning; climate planning; sustainability and resilience; environmental and climate justice; geographic and spatial analysis; urban policy and political economy; environmental governance; community engagement

(Emeritus) Modeling individual choice behavior, demand forecasting, conservation, environmental regulation and economic valuation

Transportation economics, policy and planning, air transportation, public transportation

Poverty, inequality, causal inference, mixed methods, incarceration and prisoner reentry, education, neighborhood effects, urban communities, adolescence

Molecular virology, pathogenesis, immunology, epidemiology, scientific capacity building in developing countries

America since 1607: 19th Century, urban, cultural

Cities and citizenship, political theory, democracy and law, planning and architecture, urban ethnography, Brazil, the Americas

Energy, climate, civil infrastructure, engineering, project management

Political economy of development in East Asia, power and space, cultural and environmental politics, urbanization, China

Air pollution assessment, Air quality modeling, Atmospheric modeling, Community-centered resilience, Community-led climate adaptation, Exposure monitoring, Environmental justice applications

Renewable energy systems, health and environmental impacts of energy generation and use, international R&D policy, climate change, energy forecasting and risk analysis

Transportation planning and systems analysis, air transportation

Trusted and reliable network computing, smart cities, data science, smart buildings, smart grids

Cities and hydrology, river-city relations, urban river revitalization, fluvial geomorphology, environmental planning

Information technology, the American Metropolis, globalization, global governance, diasporic communities, multiculturalism, urban neighborhoods in US, France, Berlin and London

Urban climate change adaptation, flooding, urban design for climate justice, affordable housing, shared equity housing

Politics, criminal justice, privatization, public opinion, and political behavior

Urban governance, crisis, globalization, authoritarian state, civil society, health/medicine, digital technology

Inequality, discrimination, education, tracking, college entry, effectively maintained inequality theory, research methods, sample design, causality, epistemologies, agent-based modeling, and research statistics

Urban design, history of urban form, sustainable urban form, street and public space design, waterfront promenades

Structural determinants of environmental health disparities, air pollution and perinatal outcomes, environmental justice, social movements, science, and environmental health policy-making

Water, transport, monuments, urban China (early empires, 11th century, contemporary)

Southeast Asia, China, modernity, cities, governance, science, technology and society studies, contemporary art

Equity, affordability and access to water in low-income regions, gender, sanitation

Housing and homelessness, community development, urban poverty and inequality, access to credit and homeownership

Environmental planning, community development, environmental justice, stormwater management, urban design

Public transportation, urban sustainability, urban health, environment and health impacts of traveler behaviors

Poverty, gangs, crime, violence, race and ethnic relations

​​Sustainable building design, energy efficiency, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, energy simulation, post-occupancy evaluation

Transportation, wireless communications and inertial navigation for vehicle systems

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

(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

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

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

urban economics, development economics, economic geography, applied microeconomics

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

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

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

(Ermeritus) Human geography, political economy, global capitalism

(Emerita) Sustainable urbanism, urban design and public health, homeless and human service delivery, animal-society relations

Labor and creativity, modern and contemporary art, intellectual property, China, consumer cultures, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen

Asian history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, Shanghai