Faisal Almogren

• BS. Architecture and Building Science, King Saud University
• MS Architecture and urban Design, Columbia University
• MS Urban Planning, Harvard University

Research Interests: Gulf Urbanism, City-Building, Master Planning, Housing Policies, and Urban Morphologies
 

David Amos

• BS Urban and Regional Studies, Cornell University
• Master of Architecture, University of Oregon
• MCRP Community and Regional Planning, University of Oregon

Urban design; street design; walkability; and transportation and land use

Abigail Cochran

• BS Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
• Master of City Planning, UC Berkeley

Research Interests: Urban governance, data science, technology, international planning, and transportation

Priscila Coli

• BS Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
• MSc Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia University

Transit Oriented Development; the intersection between transportation, urban design, land use and spatial justice; peripheral urbanization; Latin American cities

Savannah Cox

• M.A. International Affairs, The New School
• B.A. Political Science, B.A. Foreign Languages and International Studies, Bellarmine University

Municipal climate change governance, resilience planning, climate gentrification, public infrastructure, behavioral economics, finance and capital markets, social theory.

Nathaniel Decker

• B.A. Biology, B.A. History, Oberlin College
• M.R.P. Cornell University

Real estate, affordable housing policy, disruptive technologies, and public finance

Riem El-Zoghbi

• MS, Urban Planning, Columbia University
• BS, Construction Engineering, American University in Cairo

International Development, Informality, Cities of the Global South

Jeff Garnand

Chester Harvey

• BA Geography, Middlebury College
• MS Natural Resources, University of Vermont

Research Interests: urban design, street spaces, active transportation, spatial cognition, geodata
 

Amelia Kate Hays

• B.A. Psychology, B.A. French, Vassar College
• M.A. Trauma and Violence Studies, New York University

Trauma, displacement, international development, citizenship, identity, place-making, Sub-saharan Africa

Shakirah Hudani

• MSc. Public Health, LSHTM - University of London
• MSc. Social Anthropology, University of Oxford
• BA Social Studies, Harvard College

Urban sustainability, public health and city planning, African cities, urbanism in South-East Asia.

Yanin Kramsky

• MESc, Environmental Science, Yale University
• BS, Product Design, Art Center College of Design

Spatial politics; critical social theory; climate justice; community-based participatory research; gender (centering trans and non-binary experience), sexuality, and embodiment; urban ecology; water resources; design democratization; and environmental education.

Mukul Kumar

• MPhil, University of Cambridge
• BA, University of California, Irvine

urban environments, energy and infrastructure, climate change adaptation

Keith Lee

• MEM, Yale University
• BA Economics, University of Chicago

Food waste, grocery retail, waste management, sustainable consumption, urban metabolism, urban sustainability, East and Southeast Asia

Sam Maurer

• Master in Public Affairs, Princeton University
• BA Economics, Amherst College

Giselle Mendonca

• M.S. Urban and Regional Planning, University of São Paulo
• B.S. Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo

Urbanization in the Global South, spatial inequality, public infrastructure, and urban economic development

James Christopher Mizes

• M.A. Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University
• B.A. Political Science, Webster University

Municipal finance, public infrastructure, urban street markets, governing/governance, decentralization, fiscal autonomy, liberal administration, global development, urban and planning theory, value, publics, territory, risk, West Africa, ethnography.

Aksel Olsen

• Cand. Scient. Geography, University of Copenhagen
• B.Sc. Geography, University of Copenhagen

Land use change and transportation behavior; adaptive strategies of deindustrialization; modeling of businesses and urban dynamics

Manuel Santana Palacios

• B.S. Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá
• M.S. Civil Engineering, Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá
• M.U.R.P., University of California Los Angeles

Transportation and Land Use, Transportation and Urban Development, Travel Behavior, Informal Transportation, Transportation in the Developing World

Lisa Rayle

• MCP/MST, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

Informality in transportation; emerging modes of transport; transport and urban development.

Lana Salman

• Master of Urban Planning and Policy, American University of Beirut
• BA Economics, American University of Beirut

Rocio Sanchez-Moyano

• B.S. Economics and Political Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• M.P.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison

Housing; housing demography; barriers to homeownership; low-income and minority housing and neighborhoods

Hayden Shelby

• MCRP City and Regional Planning, Ohio State
• MA Geography, Ohio State
• BA Economics, Cornell University

International development, Sustainability, Political economy, Affordable housing, Social justice

Miriam Solis

• MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BA, UC Berkeley

Website: http://www.miriamsolis.com/

Environmental Planning, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Environmental Justice

Clara Turner

My research interests include migration and labor, regional labor markets, economic geography

Monica Villalobos

• M.R.P., City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
• B.S., Community and Regional Development, UC Davis

Transportation Planning- transit infrastructure and design, Transit Oriented Development and the Intersection of Transportation and Land Use; International Development and Urbanization in the Global South; Strategies for Sustainable and Equitable Development.

Matt Wade

• Master's of International Affairs, New School University
• Bachelor of Arts, English, Indiana University

Modernization and Development, Technologies of Planning and Government, Bureaucractic Practices, Postcolonial Studies, Southeast Asia, Jakarta, Global South, Climate Change, Anthropology of the State

Ruoying Xu

• MURP Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida
• MS Transportation Engineering, University of Florida
• BE Transportation Engineering, Tongji University

Transportation and future mobility: on demand ride-sourcing behavior, impact of autonomous vehicles/taxis, using big data for transportation analysis;

Transportation-land use interaction

Megumi Yamanaka

My research interests include urban mobility, Bus Rapid Transit, public transport, non-motorized modes, planning, design, policy, social issues, demand modelling, and environmental impacts.

Pavan Yedavalli

• B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

My research interests include smart cities, urban mobility, wireless IoT systems and drones in cities, urban data science and informatics, intelligent transportation systems, urban mapping, and travel behavior.

Aaron Young

• MA Sustainable International Development and Urban Planning, Brandeis University and Tufts University
• BA Political Science. University of Montana

My research in City & Regional Planning and Critical Geography addresses the urban land question in South Africa. By this angle of approach, I am interested in land and urban space not only as the physical terrain upon which contested claims are directed, embedded and performed, but also as an expanded field of meaning​ for local and transnational politics.